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Richard Dreyfuss Takes Stage At Massachusetts ‘Jaws’ Screening Wearing Dress Before Delivering Rant Described As Transphobic; Venue Apologizes
Deadline ^ | May 27, 2024 | Greg Evans

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: jaws; massachusetts; richarddreyfus; transphobic
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1 posted on 05/29/2024 7:39:53 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

These people are just mentally ill. Just plain depraved. Weirdos.


2 posted on 05/29/2024 7:41:41 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Twotone

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4240439/posts

😊👍


3 posted on 05/29/2024 7:42:14 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Twotone

Dreyfuss ranting in a housedress! The imagination boggles.


4 posted on 05/29/2024 7:45:33 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Twotone

Actors are going for Cringe ,LOL


5 posted on 05/29/2024 7:45:47 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Twotone

He has a few very conservative positions, especially regarding civics.


6 posted on 05/29/2024 7:46:04 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Obadiah

The only film role where he played his true self is in Third Encounters.......the one where he was an obsessed nutjob..


7 posted on 05/29/2024 7:47:56 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Twotone
“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.”

Oh that road, the road of reality and truth.

8 posted on 05/29/2024 7:48:12 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Twotone
So if I go see Rage Against the Machine, or Bruce Springsteen or the (former) Ditsey Chicks or any other "brave" performers who talk libtard politics when I came to hear music I get my money back?

Nice

9 posted on 05/29/2024 7:52:48 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: Blurb2350

It was just to go on-stage. Two ladies came & helped him remove it before he spoke.


10 posted on 05/29/2024 7:53:35 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone
and I don't like the panties, hanging on the rod!
11 posted on 05/29/2024 7:57:13 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Twotone

Lol. Keep talking, Doofus -er, Dreyfus.


12 posted on 05/29/2024 7:57:52 AM PDT by simpson96
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Even if he is right about those things, I would have much rather heard him speak about the movie making process of Jaws.

I wouldn't be angry at what he did instead, but I would be disappointed.

13 posted on 05/29/2024 7:58:35 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: 1Old Pro

Truth! “you shouldn’t be listening to some 10 year old who says they want to be a boy instead of a girl.”


14 posted on 05/29/2024 8:00:32 AM PDT by TECTopcat
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To: Twotone

I thought he got de-listed for being a Jew.


15 posted on 05/29/2024 8:02:55 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.)
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To: VanShuyten

Who cares? lol

Kinda reminds me of Iran vs. Iraq-1988.


16 posted on 05/29/2024 8:06:22 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Twotone

To the critics on this thread: What did he say that you disagree with?


17 posted on 05/29/2024 8:11:05 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Twotone

So he was recapitulating his performance as Richard III in “The Goodbye Girl” ?


18 posted on 05/29/2024 8:17:56 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (VOTE BIDEN 2024! Too senile to stand trial but good enough to run the country!)
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To: Twotone

Isn’t the word “homophobic” meant to be disparaging? Why isn’t calling someone a derogatory “hate” speech?


19 posted on 05/29/2024 8:19:25 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

Now I have a mad desire to rewatch” Rosenkrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead”.

(Times being what they are….)


20 posted on 05/29/2024 8:21:55 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF.)
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