The Goodbye Girl

But he, he hit it out of the park, and it's a very meaty role.

And if you see the film of Equus, which he starred in and, and had his seventh and final Academy Award nomination, which unfortunately he lost to Richard Dreyfuss and the Goodbye Girl, although I actually think that he probably deserved it more than Richard Dreyfuss in that point.

Um, uh, it's, it's sad because, like, he went from this Broadway thing, uh, which was a huge success.

They gave him a special Tony.

So he ends up doing a lot of Neil Simon stuff.

He's doing Goodbye Girl.

And there's another one.

I can't.

which is one of the only movies written by Stephen Sondheim.

So there's that connection just all over the place.

Goodbye Girl is just a movie that I've always loved.

And he directed Footloose, which we have to mention, which is amazing.

Okay.

Our host this week is Richard Dreyfuss, a 30-year-old actor and Best Actor Academy Award winner from New York City, perhaps best known for his roles in The Goodbye Girl, which he won the Oscar for.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

In 1978, this year Richard starred in the film The Big Fix, and like I mentioned, he won both the Academy Award and also Golden Globe for his performance in The Goodbye Girl.

Today, Dreyfuss is 78 years old.

Any thoughts on Dreyfuss going into him being on the episode this week?

It's

pretty great.

But Footloose is kind of the big one.

He also did The Goodbye Girl, Pennies from Heaven, Steel Magnolias as well as another.

That's a pretty big one.

Yeah, pretty big one.

Footloose, 1984, directed by Herbert Ross, written by Dean Pritchard.

Herbert Ross directed The Turning Point, The Goodbye Girl, Steel Magnolias, and The Secret

of My Success.

He was a dancer originally.

Here's the interesting thing.

After Godfather 2, Herbert Ross has both The Turning Point and The Goodbye Girl as nominees.

And then in 2000, Steven Soderbergh has Erin Brockovich and Traffic and wins for Traffic, which I think is the only other time one of the films wins.

But yeah, what do you think of The Godfather winning?