Posted on 05/29/2024 7:39:53 AM PDT by Twotone
After taking the stage in a housedress and, at one point, swinging his cane like a baseball bat at a Massachusetts holiday weekend screening of Jaws, Richard Dreyfuss went on to deliver a rant described by attendees as transphobic, sexist and homophobic.
“This was disgusting,” posted one attendee on the Facebook page of The Cabot theater in Beverly, Massachusetts. “How could the Cabot not have vetted his act better. Apparently (I found out too late), he has a reputation for spewing this kind of racist, homophobic, misogynistic bullcrap.”
The incident occurred on Saturday night prior to the film screening. In a brief YouTube video taken by an audience member, Dreyfuss can be seen walking onto the stage for a Q&A wearing a floral print dress and shaking his hips in a mocking way.
At one point, as he slowly makes his way to his seat assisted by a cane, he wields the cane like a baseball bat toward the crowd.
Social media accounts of the event suggest that the trouble began when Dreyfuss started talking about his Nuts producer Barbra Streisand, calling her a “genius” but that women, in the commenter’s account of the event, “are so passive that’s why the movie sucked.” From there Dreyfuss apparently made disparaging remarks about the MeToo Movement, then “started down the road of how you shouldn’t be listening to some 10 year old who says they want to be a boy instead of a girl.”
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These people are just mentally ill. Just plain depraved. Weirdos.
Dreyfuss ranting in a housedress! The imagination boggles.
Actors are going for Cringe ,LOL
He has a few very conservative positions, especially regarding civics.
The only film role where he played his true self is in Third Encounters.......the one where he was an obsessed nutjob..
Oh that road, the road of reality and truth.
Nice
It was just to go on-stage. Two ladies came & helped him remove it before he spoke.
Lol. Keep talking, Doofus -er, Dreyfus.
I wouldn't be angry at what he did instead, but I would be disappointed.
Truth! “you shouldn’t be listening to some 10 year old who says they want to be a boy instead of a girl.”
I thought he got de-listed for being a Jew.
Who cares? lol
Kinda reminds me of Iran vs. Iraq-1988.
To the critics on this thread: What did he say that you disagree with?
So he was recapitulating his performance as Richard III in “The Goodbye Girl” ?
Isn’t the word “homophobic” meant to be disparaging? Why isn’t calling someone a derogatory “hate” speech?
Now I have a mad desire to rewatch” Rosenkrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead”.
(Times being what they are….)
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