Richard Dreyfuss Slammed for Sexist, Transphobic Rant at 'Jaws' Screening

[edhopper]

Didn't know he was such an asshole.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/richard-dreyfuss-slammed-sexist-transphobic-203236084.html

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. brain worms.

He was on Glenn Beck's show sometime back complaining about cancel culture.

[FirstLight]

2. yeah, he's a product of his generation

like my parents...at some point you know they just refuse to learn or grow or change.

I think I've heard he's an asshole to other actors, directors, etc many years ago so not surprising.

[hlthe2b]

7. Oh, please. That generation had plenty of incredible liberals too (who remained so)

Dreyfuss is 76. Steven Spielberg is 77. Alan Alda is 88. Michael Douglas is 79. George Lucas is 80. Goldie Hawn is 73 and Kurt Russell is 78. Are any of those other than Dreyfuss asshole bigoted "products of their generation" who refuse to "learn, grow, or change?" Really?

(The list are just a few that come to mind as long-term Hollywood liberals of that generation).

[democratsruletheday]

8. solid post and points.....

Too bad, he was a solid actor way back when. Now he's a seething, bitter, asshole of an old man. Pity....

[Misery Business]

30. Plus, ehem, our current president.

[Celerity]

33. You flipped Hawn and Russell's ages, and your list contains 2 different Gens (granted most are close in terms of birth)

Kurt Russell is 73 - Boomer
Dreyfuss is 76 - Boomer
Steven Spielberg is 77 - Boomer

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Goldie Hawn is 78 - Silent Gen
Michael Douglas is 79 - Silent Gen
George Lucas is 80 - Silent Gen
Alan Alda is 88 - Silent Gen

[hlthe2b]

34. They are of the cohort that includes the a'hole mentioned. And I quickly googled and the ages were

as cited for Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. VERY FIRST entry on Google (firefox browser) under the search
"Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell// age" :
73 years 78 years
March 17, 1951 November 21, 1945

Google just as I state and prove to yourself. If it is wrong, complain to google. I posted what came up.



I'm sorry to hear you are having a bad morning and need to lash out at me for reasons that are totally unclear. The point was made regardless.

[Celerity]

37. Their ages are their ages. It is not a thing up for debate.

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress. She is 78.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldie_Hawn

Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He is 73.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Russell


As for this:

I'm sorry to hear you are having a bad morning and need to lash out at me for reasons that are totally unclear. The point was made regardless.

1. I am actually having a great day.

2. It is not morning here, it is 6 PM.

3. I was not 'lashing out' out at you in any way. That is pure hyperbole. All I did was list the correct birthyears and Gens. Zero ill intent and certainly no lashing out.

Cheers
🍻

[hlthe2b]

41. Did you google to prove to yourself that it was NOT my error despite your claim that it was?

You continue to insinuate that I am trying to claim otherwise--so prove it to yourself. I am glad you are having a good day and hopefully will not respond to others' posts in such an accusatory manner. Again, with the "hyperbole" accusation, belying any claim of a sincere apology, as I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt. Such a small matter, yet, you felt compelled to respond as you did. Put me on ignore if I bother you so much. It is uncalled for.

[Celerity]

43. I never said you bothered me. This entire exchange is strange to me.

I hope you have a good day and evening.

[Brenda]

47. Give it a fuckin rest.

Celerity did no such thing.

[Oopsie Daisy]

32. Ageism isn't nice.

[FakeNoose]

3. He hasn't had a movie career in at least 15 years

Remember when he played Dick Cheney in the movie "W"? That's the last thing I remember him in. It must have gone to his head, spouting all that Repuke dialog.

[NanaCat]

22. He might not have had a leading man role

In a long time, but he's been making films as recently released as 2023 (Sweetwater). He's made about 18 film films since 2009. Most actors would be quite happy with that kind of 'dead' career.

I don't remember the details, but someone accused him of sexual harassment when the MeToo movement was at its peak. Since it flew under the radar, I doubt anyone took it seriously; however, the accusation and public kerfuffle alone has embittered many an accused person, and sometimes enough to reveal the wanker that was always there, down deep.

[TSExile]

4. Yeeeesh.

I can't even.

[Think. Again.]

5. It has gotten to the point...

....where 'social shunning' is the only way to move forward safely. When planning to associate professionally with someone, it's wise to first check their background for rightwing connections, if you don't want to be dragged through the mud (of their own making) with them.

Sure, we must be open to anyone's attempt at self-correction and remorse, but until those things are adequately proven, these rightwingers need to be treated as the pariahs that they choose to be.

[Cha]

6. Ah a Stupid Blow Hard Bigot.. Idiot.

According to one attendee, Dreyfuss called Barbra Streisand a “genius” but said he “didn’t listen to her because she is a woman and women shouldn’t have that power.” The same attendee said Dreyfuss—who was clad in a housedress and waving a cane, according to Deadline—then claimed that “you shouldn’t be listening to some 10-year-old who says they want to be a boy instead of a girl.”

lol.. I'd like to hear what Barbra has to say about that.

Reminds me when John McCain told her she "should stick to singing and they would do the politics".

I emailed her about that and she responded. with..".. they want to kill the messenger.". or something to that effect.

Love Barbra Streisand Power Woman!

[Bundbuster]

16. said he "didn't listen to her because she is a woman and women shouldn't have that power."

What a fucking raging asshole. Even when he was in some really good movies I always had my suspicions.

[Cha]

18. ONe of those most Idiotic utterances

I've ever heard from a full blown Misogynist.

If he were around before Women got the vote in the USA he'd be campaigning Against it.. Moron.

[angrychair]

42. Honestly, based on descriptions

It sounds like Dreyfuss has dementia issues. Not saying that is the case but going to a public speaking event as the guest of honor in a house dress and waving a cane and ranting sexist and bigoted absurdities, sure sounds like dementia.

[mjvpi]

9. Damn he's made some good movies. What a shitty person.

Good bye Girl. Wounderful Neil Simon show.

[spooky3]

27. I found it to be very sexist even at the time.

Looks as if the star was a perfect fit.

[Incanus]

10. How bizarre: "Dreyfuss--who was clad in a housedress and waving a cane"

Reminds me of Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair, people will try to pass it off as a generational thing or dementia but in my experience neither age nor dementia turn you into a raging bigot.

[DET]

11. Dementia?

“…clad in a housedress and waving a cane…” Most people aren’t that forthright about their prejudices - unless something is preventing inhibition.

[Silent3]

13. It's hard to know when dementia is unmasking nastiness that was always there, but better hidden...

...or is the cause of the nastiness.

[obamanut2012]

25. No, he has always been a known jerk, including a sexist, homophobic one

People haven't wanted to work with him for years.

[Silent3]

12. Was, or became?

I don't know enough of his view in the past to know if he was always like this, or if, as sadly too many people do when they get older, he turned bitter and hateful late in his life.

[BigmanPigman]

14. I actually checked him out yesterday

on Google while watching Jaws. I thought he was an ass when I met him in 1983 and it turns out that he was an ass. He said he became addicted to cocaine for about 6 years and he doesn't even remember a whole film that he made during that time.

[democratsruletheday]

15. If he sounds, looks and acts like a Repuke....j

yep....shoe fits. Eff him.

[SoFlaBro]

17. He was on that fucking Bill Maher podcast looking like a slap-fool sliding from the chair and almost laying on the floor

[UTUSN]

19. After decades of not paying attention to him... this is how he surfaces?!

I never saw Jaws, will never bother. I saw Close Encounters and it was O.K., moderately provoking, not more. Richard DREYFUSS had his day of the hullabaloo back then, or just halfway in the ‘baloo. He wasn’t a big personality, didn’t keep my focus. I didn’t know of any political involvement, took it for granted he was a run o’tha mill Hollywood Lib, but unusually mousey, WIMPY. When he finally won an Oscar I was mildly approving, thought it was rude of Shirley MacCLAINE to elbow him out of the spotlight in the middle of his acceptance speech while she took the mic to cheer for her brother Warren BEATTY, an authentic Lib, about who knows what off topic thing.

So have never thought about him, lo, all these decades. Saw him on Bill MAHER’s podcast, hour and a half, and main thing was how oddly
he was slouching, sprawling and sliding in the armchair, and how he did rambling word association throughout, although nothing explicitly controversial. Of course, MAHER the Libertarian smoked pot, guzzled booze throughout.

But a year or two ago my local radio talk show wingnuts were in an absolute wingnut tizzy, claiming that the Rolling Stone magazine had dropped its Liberal identity with a wingnut attack of some kind on BIDEN, or somesuch. I got on the case with my usual research (I’ve never looked at Rolling Stone), and found the article, which was by somebody surnamed DREYFUSS, who turned out to be Wimpy Richard’s son. He’s a Nepo-Baby who had the title of “Digital Editor” at Rolling Stone. The article was in no way a shift of general editorial slant or inclination, just one Nepo-Baby’s personal opinion, which I took to be an entitled spawn rebelling against his rich Hollywood parent. One more wingnut balloon I have popped with a supercilious email.

*** So now, here is daddy Richard being gigged as sexist, homophobic, and anti-diversity. Well, over the recent years I’ve been inured to seeing Big Names having their bigness knocked down to size, especially in YouTube exposes. And actually, SPIELBERG has lost his luster himself. So DREYFUSS never blotted out my sun to start with, and what he’s spewing now isn’t different from what lots of podcast comedians are griping about, how “diversity” and “wokeness” and P.C. are killing comedy and such, and how things were better in the Great good old days (sounds like MAGA) or get-off-my-lawn.

*** As for his defending Laurence OLIVIER’s blackface for Othello, what’s a great actor supposed to do if a great role is about a Black character, not play the great part?! And a month ago Bille Dee WILLIAMS surfaced, in a WISE, COSMOPOLITAN Old Age, very bright, very expansive, refusing to talk Race, noting his very diverse circle of friends, not criticizing the current trends, but saying his friend OLIVIER was fine as Othello and had taken things to a more extreme level, depicting Othello with other stereotypes, which Billy Dee LOVED. He said the same thing, actually, as DREYFUSS, that an actor of whatever race, gender, whatever should take whatever role, being ACTING. So DREYFUSS' excuse is that he likes the Constitution.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13463937/Theater-apologizes-patrons-following-controversial-appearance-Oscar-winner-Richard-Dreyfuss-12-months-said-Academys-DEI-rules-want-vomit.html
Richard Dreyfuss sparks outrage at Jaws screening as movie theater apologizes for his 'sexist and homophobic' remarks

…. Just 12 months ago, Dreyfuss was widely criticized for his remarks on the new diversity and inclusion requirements at the Academy Awards and said 'they make me vomit.' ....

The actor also defended Laurence Olivier's performance in the 1965 film Othello in which he played the lead character in blackface. ….

The actor has long been outspoken about his belief in the constitution.

In 2008, he founded The Dreyfuss Initiative, a nonprofit that promotes teaching about American democracy in classrooms nationwide. The initiative, among other things, provides teachers with videos and educational tools. ….

*******UNQUOTE******

[NanaCat]

23. When he 'finally' won the Oscar for Best Actor

For Goodbye Girl in 1978, it was early in his career. Until Adrien Brody won in 2003 for the Pianist, Dreyfuss was the youngest recipient. He's still #2 on the list of youngest actors to win Best Actor.

As it is, MacLaine didn't take away from his win that year, because she was nowhere near the stage at the time; Sylvester Stallone presented the award solo, and quickly stepped aside after Dreyfuss had the statue in his hand.

I believe you're confusing his 1978 Oscar appearance with the following year, when MacLaine and Dreyfuss presented the Best Actress Award (winner: Jane Fonda). MacLaine hardly shoved Dreyfuss aside to praise her brother. The entire evening had been full of mindless random banter from presenters, and MacLaine added her share. It's classic MacLaine to do something silly in public because she's always been silly in public. I don't think anyone, including Dreyfuss, found her behaviour surprising or all that upsetting, no more than they found it upsetting when Olympia Dukakis used her acceptance speech in 1988 to cheer on her cousin running for President at the time.

[niyad]

20. I never could figure out why I did not like him. Now I know.

[Goddessartist]

29. Same.

Never liked him, ever.

[ZonkerHarris]

21. ;just sad so many tarnishing their legacies with crazy

[obamanut2012]

24. He is always been a known ass -- people do not like working with him

Especially women.

[BlueTsunami2018]

26. I have yet to see an article that details exactly what he said.

I don’t know what he said so I don’t know how to judge it. What I do know is that he’s been on a crusade for civics classes for quite a while. That is something on which I definitely agree with him.

[shrike3]

35. From the above article:

On Saturday, The Cabot hosted a screening of the 1975 blockbuster along with a Q&A discussion with Dreyfuss, 76, who starred in the film. However, things took a sharp turn when, according to social media posts from attendees, the Oscar-winning actor began sharing offensive comments about women and trans youth.

According to one attendee, Dreyfuss called Barbra Streisand a “genius” but said he “didn’t listen to her because she is a woman and women shouldn’t have that power.” The same attendee said Dreyfuss—who was clad in a housedress and waving a cane, according to Deadline—then claimed that “you shouldn’t be listening to some 10-year-old who says they want to be a boy instead of a girl.”

He also said that Close Encounters only worked because he was in it.

[surfered]

28. So when Richard Dreyfus played Sen Munson in The American President, he wasn't really acting, he was just being himself.

[Doodley]

31. I don't judge him. He's obviously got Alzheimers or something else that is affecting him.

[obamanut2012]

40. Nah, he has always been like this

People don't like working with him, especially women.

[Doodley]

44. He's never ranted like this in public wearing a dress. He's never even been seen in a dress before.

The irony of his anti-trans, homophobic rant while wearing a dress. No, this isn't how he has behaved before.

[Mad_Machine76]

36. Wow

I found out about this last weekend. Hella disappointing.

[PatSeg]

38. Whoa, that's disturbing

[jcboon]

39. He's bipolar

He has disclosed that he is bipolar in several interviews. It would explain a lot.

[Doodley]

45. Two decades ago he said he was bi-polar. This behavior is something new.

[BannonsLiver]

46. I think we're seeing why Bill Murray threw a ceramic ash tray at his head during What About Bob

And why Robert Shaw, who had zero tolerance for other people’s bullshit, tormented him while filming Jaws.

[Demsrule86]

48. He is an asshole. Dreyfuss once compared kissing Bette Midler to kissing a dog...they were in the

'I have been kidnapped by Kmart movie...Ruthless People. He is arrogant and full of himself.

[edhopper]

49. Bette Midler is a National Treasure

and a Legend.
Dreyfuss is now in the trashbin of History.
I am sure she now regrets having to kiss him.