Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right, of course. He is good as the star-struck hero in Close Encounters, but he is nothing short of wonderful as Elliott Garfield, the brash but vulnerable actor in Goodbye Girl. In fact, the character is so like the real-life Dreyfuss that Simon would have saved everyone some trouble by just calling him Rick in the first place. The part was so natural, admits Rick himself, that "I could have done it as a 9-to-5 job for the rest of my life. Imagine! Sixty years old and still shooting The Goodbye Girl...
Strange Brew Coffeehouse--Hilles penthouse at 8 p.m. Allen Ginsberg--Passim at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Joe Val and The New England Bluegrass Boys--Winthrop JCR at 2 p.m. Judy Collins--Symphony Hall at 8:30 p.m. Gordon Bok--First Congregational Church at 8 p.m. Elliott and Rosenthal--Back Room at The Idler at 8 p.m. Dick Curless--Jonathan Swift's at 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Open Hoot--Sword-in-the-Stone...
...until The Goodbye Girl, a film that reveals a Richard Dreyfuss we have not seen before. This romantic comedy is a rather modest entertainment, but it forces its star to open up by placing him in a role that demands a generosity of spirit. The character Dreyfuss plays, Elliott Garfield, is a struggling New York actor who is mad for an emotionally battered Broadway dancer (Marsha Mason) who will have nothing to do with him. To win the woman's affection, Elliott must rise above his neuroses-he must be strong enough for two-and indeed Dreyfuss grows...
...sharpest when the action moves from the Upper West Side apartment house where the hero and heroine live to the theatrical demimonde where they work; the theater is a milieu that Ross, an ex-Broadway choreographer, and Simon know uncannily well. In the film's funniest sequence, Elliott opens off-off-Broadway in an outlandishly homosexual production of Shakespeare's Richard III; Ross captures the texture of a disastrous opening night in all its horror, and Dreyfuss's flaming king proves the nuttiest send-up of bad acting since Dick Shawn created a musical-comedy Hitler...
...major hotels now have space reserved for pin play. A Midwestern firm has installed pins to keep its salesmen on a competitive kick at lunchtime. Celebrated pinball addicts-who do not call themselves pinheads-include Andrea McArdle, star of Annie; Bill Cosby, Ann-Margret, Mike Nichols, Sammy Davis Jr., Elliott Gould and, of course, Elton John, whose role as Pinball Wizard in the 1975 movie Tommy helped in the gilding of the pins. Elton, for whom Bally named its Captain Fantastic game, has four ringer-dingers in each of his two pads, and has given...