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  Richard Dreyfuss's New 'Opus'
Nowadays when Richard Dreyfuss takes the stage, wearing his trademark khaki pants and corduroy jacket with his reading glasses on a string draped around his neck, he is playing a role quite different from the dozens of characters he has taken on during his long acting career.
Dreyfuss spent the fall of 2006 honing his ideas, drumming up enthusiasm for his project, and on November 16 he appeared on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher to promote his civics initiative.
Dreyfuss has reached the stage of life that George Vaillant, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, refers to as "empathic leadership." Like most baby boomers, he spent the first part of his life focusing on his career.
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  Richard Dreyfuss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an Oscar-winning American actor.
Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish American parents Norman, an attorney and restauranteur, and Geraldine, a peace activist.
The media noted that Dreyfuss was still suffering from problems relating to an operation for a herniated disc in January, and that the part of Max Bialystock in the play is a physically demanding one.
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 Richard Dreyfuss - Biography
Dreyfuss continued working steadily through the end of the 1980s and into the 1990s, most notably in Mazursky's Moon Over Parador (1988), Spielberg's Always (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990).
Dreyfuss received some of the best notices of his career as a determined, inspiring music teacher coping with a deaf son and the demands of his career in Mr.
Dreyfuss continued working steadily through the end of the 1980s and into the 1990s, most notably in Mazursky's farce Moon Over Parador (1988), Spielberg's Always (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990).
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 AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Richard Dreyfuss   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Richard Dreyfuss was born on October 29, 1947 and developed a passion for acting at age nine after moving with his family from Brooklyn, NY to Los Angeles.
Dreyfuss took home a Best Actor statuette at the Oscars®; for the role and at twenty-nine was the youngest actor to ever win the award.
The role of the inspirational music teacher who devotes his life to his students was a natural fit for Dreyfuss and was nominated for an Oscar®;.
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 Richard Dreyfuss Speaker - Book Motivational Celebrity Speaker Richard Dreyfuss and Other Corporate Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dreyfuss began acting in amateur theatricals at the age of nine and made his professional stage debut in a 1964 Los Angeles production of "In Mamma's House", appearing on TV for the first time soon after.
Dreyfuss' substance abuse did not seem to effect his polished performances in "The Big Fix" (1978, which he also produced) or "The Competition" (1980) though the pictures made little noise at the box office.
Dreyfuss had remained active in the theater, playing Cassius in "Julius Caesar" (Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1978) and Iago in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of "Othello" (1979), not to mention performing at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Long Wharf Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum, among other venues, throughout the 80s.
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 The education of Richard Dreyfuss - The Boston Globe
Dreyfuss then commanded the stage for an hour of uninhibited and often spicy conversation with his audience, a dialogue whose theme might be described as: What we don't know -- or refuse to learn -- about our country and the world could kill us.
To meet Dreyfuss is to see why Steven Spielberg cast him as the steady-handed hero in "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Dreyfuss may be hammy and meandering when discussing his career, with all its ups and downs.
Dreyfuss assured attendees that his bias was neither liberal nor conservative but toward such values as debate and dissent, which he called "pre-partisan."
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2007/02/07/the_education_of_richard_dreyfuss   (1417 words)

  
 Richard Dreyfuss   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The son of an attorney, Richard Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, NY.
This lead to a growing drug dependancy, which ended one night in 1982 when his car hit a tree and he was arrested for posession of cocaine.
Dreyfuss cleaned himself up and made a come back in Hollywood in the film Down And Out In Beverly Hills, proving that he was still one of Hollywood's most accomplished actors.
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 Oscar-Winner Dreyfuss Campaigns against "Shaped News"
Dreyfuss said media coverage of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York was a pertinent example of how a non-stop supply of images and spot news shaped people's views.
Dreyfuss is eager to point out that he is not anti-technology: "I'm not in love with technology and speed but I don't want to sound like a luddite.
Dreyfuss, who won an Oscar for his performance in "The Goodbye Girl", has pursued his passion for political and social activism since his college days.
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 Richard Dreyfuss Answers An Age Old Question With Poseidon
Richard plays a very wealthy business man, who's on the Poseidon ship to celebrate the New Year; he's one of the people who survives the initial hit from the rogue wave that capsizes the boat.
Richard Dreyfuss: In a TV series, it's the only time when the character is open-ended and you can change him, and you can literally come onto the set on a Tuesday and say, hey, let's have him commit adultery and see what happens.
Richard Dreyfuss: If I was 30 years old and at the top of my form I wouldn't have done it because I'm too lazy; not because it's a bad movie or a good movie, I just thought I don't want to work that hard.
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 Richard Dreyfuss @ Filmbug
Richard Dreyfuss is among the leading actors of the American cinema.
Dreyfuss made his motion picture debut in 1967 with a bit part in Valley of the Dolls, followed by one line in The Graduate.
Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to Los Angeles with his parents when he was eight.
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 Bio: Richard Dreyfuss--AllYourTV.com
Dreyfuss made his motion picture debut in 1967 with a bit part in "Valley of the Dolls," followed by one line in "The Graduate." Then, several films later, in 1973, he starred in "American Graffiti," which earned him both praise and attention.
Dreyfuss has performed on stage in the Broadway production of "Death and the Maiden," with Glenn Close and Gene Hackman, and in "Three Hotels" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and moved to Los Angeles with his parents when he was 8.
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 Richard Dreyfuss: Always - Movie
Richard Dreyfuss then observes his past life with his wife drift away as she falls for the man of whom he is watching over.
This movie is a painfull one to watch but the fact that somewhere inside of Dreyfuss's wife tells her that he is right here and will be there in her heart always.
Pete (Richard Dreyfuss)is the spiritual coach and he is not entirely confident about his mission, but he gives it a try and soon gets more than he bargained for when the girlfriend (Holly Hunter) he left behind begins to fall in love with his student.
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 Richard Dreyfuss - People Search - Wink
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an Academy Award-winning American actorDreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Norman, an attorney and restaurateur, and Geraldine, a peace activist.
Dreyfuss was married to Jeramie Rain, with whom he had three children.
Dreyfuss was originally supposed to reprise his role as Hooper in Jaws 2 as the character who found Orca.
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 BBC News | Entertainment | Close encounter with Richard Dreyfuss
Now Richard Dreyfuss talks candidly to BBC World's Tim Sebastian about how he pulled himself out of addiction to return to the limelight.
Dreyfuss was just 29 when he won an Oscar, making him at the time the youngest actor ever to win such an award.
Born in 1947, in Brooklyn New York, Richard Stephen Dreyfuss moved to Los Angeles when he was nine, where he began acting at the Beverly Hills Jewish centre.
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 Hollywood Film Festival® - Richard Dreyfuss   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dreyfuss is one of Hollywood's most distinguished and highly regarded actors.
Dreyfuss holds the distinction of being the youngest actor to win an Academy Award, for "The Goodbye Girl" when he was 29.
Dreyfuss continued to add to his stature and popularity as a performer with roles in a variety of films ranging from "Mr.
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 Richard Dreyfuss Pictures, Richard Dreyfuss Photo Gallery and Biography - Celebrity Pictures by WireImage.com
Dreyfuss was raised in Brooklyn and Queens before moving to Los Angeles at the age of nine with his father, an attorney, and his peace activist mother.
Starring alongside Marsha Mason, Dreyfuss earned an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the hilarious film, and was at the time the youngest male to receive the Oscar for Best Actor, a record only recently broken by Adrien Brody for “The Pianist”.
Dreyfuss is currently battling nature in the disaster flick “Poseidon” alongside Kurt Russell and young stars Emmy Rossum and Josh Lucas.
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 Richard Dreyfuss Filmography
Barnaby (Richard Dreyfuss) and Maxine (Judy Davis) are attempting to salvage what might be left of their broken marriage by taking a road trip together.
Synopsis: Hosted by Richard Dreyfuss, this interfaith concert was initiated by Pope John Paul II and performed at the Vatican in commemoration of the Holocaust and the Vatican's official recognition of Israel as a state.
Richard Dreyfuss stars as a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission.
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 Richard Dreyfuss News
Academy Award- winning actor Richard Dreyfuss was in Vancouver recently to speak at the Schara Tzedeck Synagogue on the situation in Israel.
Richard Dreyfuss is a fast talker but he doesn't have the rapid staccato of the abrasive characters he's played in many of his movies.
Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett 3 out of 4 stars When you get down to it, this remake of 1972's 'Poseidon Adventure' is pretty silly.
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 Inside the Actors Studio: Richard Dreyfuss's Bio is Available Online - Official Bravo TV Site
Richard Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn on October 29, 1947, but moved to Beverly Hills at age eight.
Dreyfuss also continued to work on stage, including the early 1990s Mike Nichols production of Death and the Maiden on Broadway with Gene Hackman and Glenn Close.
Dreyfuss, who was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, has always remained active in social issues.
www.bravotv.com /Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Richard_Dreyfuss   (350 words)

  
 Blogmeister USA: From the Over-Inflated Sense of Self-Worth Files: Richard Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss did have a few harsh words for the press, blaming the 24-hour news cycle and sound bites for the way we react to world events.
Despite his self-proclaimed "libo-conservo-middle-of-the-roado" stance on life and politics, Dreyfuss seems to be afflicted with the very same "reflexive response" that he blames the press for.
Dreyfuss: You are the most idiotic horse's ass ever to grace planet earth - except for all the rest of your leftwingnut pals who are just as stupid and just as clueless!
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 Richard Dreyfuss - Trivia
Richard Dreyfuss was offered and was expected to play the starring role but fell into a dispute with director Paul Mazursky.
Dreyfuss was approached to reprise his role of Matt Hooper but production on 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ran behind and he declined.
Dreyfuss had once starred in the theater production of The Normal Heart, and was attached to the film version, though critical of Barbra Streisand as the prospective director.
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 Richard Dreyfuss Picture, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com
In ANOTHER STEAKOUT (1993), Richard Dreyfuss, as Chris, while standing in front of a line of drying panties, repeats the line And I don't like the panties hanging on the rod that he said in his Oscar-winning role of Elliott in THE GOODBYE GIRL (1977).
Among kids that auditioned to play one of the Von Trapp children in THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) were Kurt Rusell (qv), Richard Dreyfuss, Nancy Cartwright, and the four eldest Osmond Brothers, (Alan, Jay, Merrill, and Wayne).
Dreyfuss didn't recognize the quote, despite the fact that he was the actor who said it in JAWS (1975).
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 Playbill Features: Sly Puss Dreyfuss
A few weeks ago Richard Dreyfuss found his past, present and future all converging in a rehearsal hall on West 43rd.
Dreyfuss, whose screen record is stained with fast-talking hucksters, from the Kravitz kid to the Tin Men who hustled aluminum siding, doesn't have to think long and hard about why he wanted to do Sly Fox: "First, it's hysterically funny.
Dreyfuss began in movies with one-line bits "in the best and worst pictures of 1967" (i.e., "The Graduate" and "Valley of the Dolls") and became a box-office commodity with two of the biggest hits of the seventies (both Spielbergs: "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind").
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 Richard Dreyfuss - TV.com
Richard Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947.
Dreyfuss was originally the youngest man to win an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl in 1977 at the age of 30, the title has passed to Adrien Brody in 2003.
Richard was a conscientious objector to the war in Vietnam.
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 Who Mentored Richard Dreyfuss?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Listen to audio, or watch the video of Richard Dreyfuss.
Watch a public service announcement featuring Richard Dreyfuss in support of National Mentoring Month.
Richard Dreyfuss is a well-known stage and screen actor.
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 Richard Dreyfuss at Hollywood.com
Dreyfuss began acting in amateur theatricals at the age of nine and made his professional stage debut in a 1964 Los Angeles production of "In Mamma's House", appearing on TV for the first time soon after.
Dreyfuss' substance abuse did not seem to effect his polished performances in "The Big Fix" (1978, which he also produced) or "The Competition" (1980) though the pictures made little noise at the box office.
Dreyfuss had remained active in the theater, playing Cassius in "Julius Caesar" (Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1978) and Iago in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of "Othello" (1979), not to mention performing at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Long Wharf Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum, among other venues, throughout the 80s.
www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Richard_Dreyfuss/198391   (2754 words)

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