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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...
...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...
...challenged, and humiliated established figures of authority. In Washington D.C., he broke out of the "escape-proof" cell that once held Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield. In London, he freed himself from a pair of "pick-proof" darbies, the handcuffs used by Scotland Yard. And then, during a European tour, he freed himself from the thumbscrews, elbow irons and chains of the Kaiser's Polizei, and escaped from one of the "carrettes" the Russian Tsar used to transport his prisoners to Siberia. Such feats were always met by the surprise, and frequent embarrassment...
...poor people, as well as the social workers, job-program administrators and academics now trying to find some way of helping them. They spent days and nights in sections of cities-Los Angeles' Watts, New York's Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Chicago's Humboldt Park and Garfield Park, and Miami's Northwest Side-already infamous for poverty and crime and desperation. For most the assignment was profoundly saddening. Says Boston Correspondent Jack White: "I'm sick of singing this same old saga. I wish we could move on to a story that could...
...Ever watch those old movies?" asks Stony Browder Jr., 28. "Bogart, Garfield -they believed in things. There was music when they walked." Stony, resplendent in bow tie, watch chain and beret, writes Savannah's music. He admits it takes him two hours to press the crease in his pants, coordinate his colors and get his chains together. His pal, "SugarCoated" Andy Hernandez, 26, nods. "A lot of people think we dress like this only for performances," says Sugar-Coated, who plays vibes. In the '60s, he explains, society drifted further and further away from his dreams...