Richard Dreyfuss: Last News

The Wild Bunch (1969), his third film role, he played Crazy Lee, left behind by the gang with their hostages as they escape an ambush. His glee as he marches the terrified captives around at gunpoint singing We Shall Gather at the River highlighted the violent absurdity of the director Sam Peckinpah’s opening scene. In American Graffiti (1973), directed by George Lucas, he played the leader of a greaser gang, the Pharoahs, who frightens Richard Dreyfuss’s strait-laced Curt into pulling off a spectacular prank on the police.

the Hollywood Reporter. “Although he was taken too early, he lived life to the fullest and taught his children to do the same,” his family said in a statement.

has died. He was 62.Johnson died on Feb.

Bo Hopkins, known for his roles in "American Graffiti," "The Wild Bunch," and "Midnight Express" died on Saturday. He was 84. A marquee on the actor’s self-titled website confirmed his death with the announcement: "It is with great sadness that we announce that Bo has passed away.

Eddie Van Halen reportedly left a contribution of at least $1million (£780,000) to the US-based music education charity Mr Holland’s Opus Foundation (MHOF).For 26 years, the MHOF – named for the titular character of the 1995 film Mr. Holland’s Opus (played by Richard Dreyfuss) – has aimed to provide school-aged children from low-income backgrounds with the opportunity to enjoy music education, offering, among other avenues, access to musical instruments.According to a statement issued by the MHOF on last Wednesday (April 20), Van Halen left the charity a seven-figure bequest.

new film being shut down for an investigation into his alleged “inappropriate behavior” is taking on a darker tone amid a resurfaced on-set horror story that’s kept Hollywood whispering for decades.Disney was allegedly forced to hire bodyguards to protect the cast and crew of 1991’s “What About Bob?” after the actor hurled a glass ashtray at co-star Richard Dreyfuss and threatened to “throw” the film’s female producer “across a parking lot.”The bombshell accusation was dropped Thursday night by Dreyfuss’ son, Ben, just hours after Murray’s latest movie, “Being Mortal,” was suspended following a complaint about his conduct. Despite his enduring status as a beloved Hollywood bad boy, Murray has repeatedly been accused of violently clashing with co-stars — from alleged head-butting to “inexcusable and unacceptable” language — on numerous sets stretching all the way back to the 1970s. After this week’s new Murray mayhem, Ben, 35, took to Twitter to reveal that professional muscle had to be deployed to the Virginia set of the cult classic “What About Bob?” following Murray’s alleged violent outburst.

Bill Murray’s new movie is on hold because of, well, Bill Murray.

EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films has acquired North American rights to the Western Murder at Yellowstone City, directed by Richard Gray (Robert the Bruce), for release in theaters and on demand on June 24.

a 2016 sequel movie.Developed from a one-woman play starring Vardalos, the film was produced with the help of Rita Wilson, who herself has Greek heritage, and husband Tom Hanks, who certainly knew how to spot a hit.So what has become of its stars, 20 years later?As central character Toula, Vardalos played a shy wallflower whose large and interfering Greek family are keen to see her married and have children.However, after meeting Ian she is inspired to take charge of her own life, away from working in her family’s restaurant, and heads to college, which in turn improves her confidence and sees her make changes to her appearance.She and Ian date, fall in love, become engaged and eventually get married – but not without an awful lot of involvement from her family.After nabbing a Golden Globe nod for her performance in the film, which she also wrote, Vardalos hosted Saturday Night Live later that year.My Big Gat Greek Life, the TV spin-off from the film, lasted for just seven episodes in 2003 and saw all the main actors return bar John Corbett.Since then, she has stuck to writing as well as acting, creating cult-hit musical Connie and Carla, about two women pretending to be drag queens.

Wil Wheaton was recently touched by Jerry O'Connell, who apologized to the actor on Thursday for being unaware of the child abuse he faced as a teenager. The "Stand By Me" co-stars and friends reunited on Thursday's' "The Talk," where O'Connell, now a co-host on the daytime series, apologized to Wheaton. "I heard before you talk about some of the struggles you were going through during ‘Stand by Me,’ and you know, while I was 11 at the time, that's an excuse, I do want to apologize for not being there more for you when you were younger," O'Connell said.

EXCLUSIVE: The long-in-coming return of the musical based on Jerry Lewis’ The Nutty Professor, and a new musical adaptation of the Richard Dreyfuss 1995 film Mr. Holland’s Opus, will receive major regional theater stagings this year, with Maine’s nationally recognized Ogunquit Playhouse announcing the productions for its 2022 season.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhere others might see a crystal ashtray, DIY filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead envision some kind of haunted relic, a portal to another dimension or maybe just the ideal prop on which to base their next screwy sci-fi imagination-tickler. Audiences who’ve experienced a Moorhead&Benson film — eerie vacation-sex nightmare “Spring,” perhaps, or else UFO death-cult puzzler “The Endless” — already know how the pair can spin elaborate mind games out of duct tape, twine and popsicle sticks.

Richard Dreyfuss has won Academy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTAs and on Tuesday night he put his hopes on winning the special accolade of the Star Baker apron.The Hollywood actor, 72, won an Oscar for his impressive appearance in the 1978 blockbuster The Goodbye Girl, but where does he keep this coveted prize?Richard Dreyfuss began acting in his younger years and debuted inn the TV production In Mama’s House when he was 15.He then attended San Fernando Valley State College, now California State University, Northridge, for a year, and was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, working in alternate service for two years, as a clerk in a Los Angeles hospital.During this period, he acted in a number of small television roles such as

Hollywood star Richard Dreyfuss has the #MeToo movement kicked due process “into the ocean”.