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...JOIN VISTA; streamers towed by airplanes over "every major beach in America" on Labor Day and Memorial Day, along with skydivers and skywriters to attract the press; VISTA swizzle sticks aboard airliners; a pavilion at Disneyland; and a national advisory board made up of such figures as Paul Newman, Elliott Gould, O.J. Simpson, Billy Graham, Mae West and Lawrence Welk...
Despite such isolated gripes, Gould is known almost universally as a very professional and highly resourceful performer. "He's an excellent actor," says Alan Arkin, who directed him in Little Murders. "The character he plays has a kind of brooding intensity that Elliott doesn't have. He had to work very hard for that. But he was completely successful." Candy Bergen reports that she had never had such fun working in films before co-starring with him and adds: "He was the first person to teach me to enjoy acting." One of Elliott's lessons consisted of standing off-camera...
...Bernard Malamud's The Assistant, for example, and Bruce Jay Friedman's new novel The Dick. The partners plan to make at least four more films by the end of next year, including a freeform adaptation of that bestselling catechism, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex. Elliott even talks about taking advantage of some of Charlie Lowe's singing lessons by giving a concert of songs by Bob Dylan...
...really want to do now," he says, "is to direct." He is currently working with a writer to develop an original screenplay for his first venture behind the cameras. He and Brodsky have also discussed producing a film for Barbra, with Mrs. Gould in the leading role and Elliott, maybe, directing. "Listen," Gould grins, contemplating all these conquerable worlds, "I'm not even in my prime...
...least one person resists all such interpretations. "Psychoanalysts," Gould's father complained to TIME'S Patsy Beckert, "those guys poison the mind. Elliott says to me now, 'Why didn't you tell me about sex?' Well, who told me about sex? He says, 'I could have been a fag!' But I say not with that background. Not with the nice summers he spent in the mountains." Bernie himself is happier now that he has divorced Elliott's mother and married his Sweet Sixteen sweetheart, whom he met again after she had been widowed...