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.
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