Page 12 THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday January 1900 Entertainment Talking with RICHARD DREYFUSS STAR SPEAK Actor Richard Dreyfuss teams for the third time with director Steven Spielberg in Always a romantic drama based on the fantasy film A Guy Named Joe Dreyfuss previ ous collaborations with Spielberg Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind were two of the biggest hits of the 1970s Born in Brooklyn where his father was an attorney moved to Beverly Hills at the age of 8 and be gan working in local theater During the Vietnam War he was a conscien objector and worked in a hospi as alternate service He made his film debut with a bit part in Valley of the Dolls It wasnt until however that Drey fuss established himself as a major American actor with his perfor mances In two classic films Ameri can Graffiti and The Apprentice ship of Kravitz His commercial success in the Spielberg films was topped in with critical acclaim when he won the Best Actor Oscar in Neil Simons The Goodbye Girl opposite Marsha Mason But over the next decade his career went into a downturn until his trium phant performance in the hit comedy Down and Out in Beverly Hills Dreyfuss next film Once Around will reunite him with his di minutive Always costar Holly Hunter The film will be directed by Hallstrom My Life as a Dog Was Holly Hunter cast as your romantic interest to make you look like a basketball player A Holly is the perfect size for me Plus shes intelligent malleable tough You have the Spencer Tracy role In Always Did you ever find your self Imitating his performance A Imitating Tracy was a good tool sometimes At other times I won if I was relying much on him He was extraordinary Only two actors have been able to achieve a kind of rhythm with prose Charles and Tracy You can hear it In the rooftop scene in Desk Set An odd totally rhythmic quality Which of your own films are yon most pleased with A I dont watch my own work I dont avoid them Maybe Ill see a film of mine once then never again I dont like to study myself After the success of your film Stakeout in 1987 several critics VIDEO PLUS Wast of Fruit Mark el BRING HOME A STAR THISWEEK- DIAL HELP LICENCE TO KILL All Older Movies for 3 Days I 134 GuelphSt Unit Georgetown 42M1 QUIK PIK MORE THAN A CONVENIENCE STORE OVER 2500 MOVIES 99 Including RJm WEEKEND New Releases Other Cigarettes Cigarettes Tobacco Milk Pkg 3 69 Tan cm t Cm 17 Tan L Bag 2 said you bad become a sex symbol Always alio casts you as a larger- thanlife romantic hero After a ca reer of playing nerds how did you feel about your new Identity on screen like being a sex symbol although its not something I want to be exclusively in films Richard Dreyfuss A I like being a sex symbol al though its not something I want to be exclusively in films But I have to ad mit I always had it in the back of mind Why 1 1 playing sex sym bols So when I finally got to play one it felt real good How would you describe your working relationship with Steven Spielberg A I give up a lot of my creative control when I work with Steven Ste ven and I have a shorthand using grunts and raised eyebrows I like to discuss my role with most directors but with him I just lay back He has a Q What kind of films would you like to make A I hope Glory is a huge success so more historical films are made Every time a turkey like Revolu tion comes out It puts another nail in the coffin of historical films The pub lics been shown a lot of bad historical diamas lately Ive been told by Spielberg and others that everyone on the set of Al ways was in awe of Audrey Hepburn A I made the mistake once of tell ing her it was a thrill to work with her and she said Oh shut up Holly Hunter told me you were an intellectual and very well read What are you reading now A biography of Oliver Cromwell I love history Id like to play Tom Paine Huey Long Is this a good time In Richard Dreyfuss life right now A Im happy I have two kids Im and I make a good living My wife is involved in a zillion charities Im thinking of sending her to Sainthood Anonymous She makes me a better person because of her involvement in various causes Richard wizardry I dont have Jaws will stand as one of the greatest films of the postwar era Are you pleased with the current state of filmmaking A I should have been born in Im an actor who would have flour ished better in the 30s and the 40s In the old days an actor did movies a year One stretched that way HALTONS NO 1 HOT SPOT Hwr Winston Churchill AFTER FIVE THINGS TO DO PLACES TO GO Welti FOR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE MAIN ST S 8773388 Be A Coo Col And Check Out he in the Section YELLOW CAB HILLS 24 HOUR SERVICE SERVING HALTON HILLS Airport Service Parcel Delivery 8732527 8732931 POSSIBLY THE WORLDS BEST BARBQUE CHICKEN FRIES HONOLULU SPECIAL 5 Complete Quarter Chicken Dinner 232 GUELPH ST 8731646 Face In The Crowd ST to Take close look your the lucky or or drop in Ths Herald by do arrow is SI to looking Noil nook It GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 236 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