Word: elliott
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...occupational klutz with girls, Elliott was always alone, except for an occasional buddy. He was gambling compulsively by the time his mother and father went to Florida for the 1958 season. He ran up debts, pawned his father's jewelry to pay some of them off, and had their home phone disconnected when hoods started calling him to demand the rest of their payment. He and a friend sold phony ads for a nonexistent labor newspaper until the racket got too hot to handle; then Elliott took odd jobs?as a rug-cleaner salesman, a theatrical-school teacher, night elevator...
...Elliott got more than he hoped for. He not only got the job, he got the lead, and Barbra got him. The show was not a hit, but Barbra won high praise for her role, and Gould's relationship with the compulsively over-achieving Brooklyn girl went on. He moved into her apartment over a seafood restaurant on Third Avenue. A year and a half later, they entered into a marriage that came perilously close to finishing Elliott. Barbra made it big in about as much time as it takes to get to Coney Island on the subway. At times...
...backstage manning the rheostats. He appeared sporadically on Broadway, and became part of his wife's TV production company, which had been formed to package shows for the networks. Elliott learned a lot about the business, but did not sell a single show...
...self-confidence. "It wasn't until the day before yesterday that I stopped being a tortured individual." he says. Curiously, both he and Barbra still cling, however tenuously, to each other and to their 31-year-old son Jason. They have not yet filed for divorce. "That technicality," Elliott says mysteriously, "can evoke a great many inhibitions." It does not inhibit him, though, from camping in his Greenwich Village town house with a quietly attentive 18-year-old girl who has no show business aspirations...
...scene with him in Move. "He's very easy to love. And he always knows his lines." Some might say too well. A couple of other M*A*S*H stalwarts believe that Gould and Sutherland hogged all the best bits of comic business, and one, who maintains that Elliott is on a big star trip, insists that he will never work with him again...