Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy that just flies off the screen," says Neil Simon, who wrote The Goodbye Girl. "He doesn't fall into any of the usual acting categories. He's not a handsome-man type like Redford or a dramatic-actor type like Pacino or De Niro. Rick can do anything-and he is funnier than any of them." Not a victim of false modesty, Dreyfuss agrees. How does he think he is in Goodbye Girl? Just ask him: "I think I'm wonderful...
...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...
When Dreyfuss was eight, his family moved to Beverly Hills. Rick was in his first production at the local Jewish center when he was nine. "I never got less than the lead after that," he boasts. By the time he was twelve he was reciting Shakespeare before the bathroom mirror. His dream-then, now and probably for-evermore-was to play Cassius in Julius Caesar. Though the world has made a villain out of Cassius, the leader of the plot to kill Caesar, the scion of political iconoclasts knew that he was really a good fellow. "Cassius was sympathetic...
...there. There is no edge any more. I'm just not used to my life yet-and haven't been for five lousy years!" He adds: "I don't know what I know any more. I'm lost!" Time for a Twinkie, Rick...
...afternoon started as expected, with Hawes pinning Harvard's Ray Dominiquez to put Springfield on top, 6-0. Then came disappointment number one, as Rick Kief (126 lbs.) got reversed at the final buzzer and lost to Chief Joe Arrante in a battle of freshmen...