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...only because of the echoes of his mother's personality, Gould's situation bears at least a superficial resemblance to Philip Roth's fictional character, Alexander Portnoy. The noted psychologist...
Bruno Bettelheim, recently used Portnoy's Complaint as the basis for a fictional analyst's notebook. Portnoy's problem, wrote Bettelheim, was not excessive hatred of a smothering, domineering Jewish mother, but the complete reverse ?excessive love and dependence on her. In these terms, Gould's current life-style is reminiscent of his childhood, and his current burst of show business activity could conceivably be an effort to live up to his mother's expectations...
...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...
...Bergman film will offer Gould an invaluable opportunity to break away from the life and the stereotyped roles that now make him so popular but could in two years' time make him just a familiar bore. The plunge into Bergman's special private world will require greater depth, diversity and complexity than Gould has heretofore displayed...
...right hand and use the left for expression. Not Fleisher. He sometimes swung both arms up, fists closed. He often seemed to be playing an imaginary piano, both hands thrusting forward as if striking a two-hand chord. At a private seminar a few weeks ago, Conductor Morton Gould asked Fleisher to beat time with his right hand, and then asked him to pretend that he was playing the piano. "You're ten times as expressive the second way," was Gould's advice...