{"id":92689,"date":"2024-06-03T00:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T07:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92689"},"modified":"2024-06-03T00:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T07:36:45","slug":"dreyfuss-goes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/06\/03\/dreyfuss-goes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreyfuss Goes Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a somewhat Boston-related <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question, <strong>Kyle <\/strong>in Philadelphia asked, <em>\u201cIs <strong>Richard Dreyfuss <\/strong>insane?&nbsp; What happened at that screening of <\/em><strong>Jaws<\/strong><em> when he went off on women, trans people, and Barbra?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when I leave Boston \u2013 chaos ensues.&nbsp; Although, to be fair, the incident in question happened in Beverly, Massachusetts at the <em>Cabot Theatre<\/em>.&nbsp; The event was called <strong><em>An Evening with Richard Dreyfuss and <\/em><\/strong>Jaws <strong><em>Screening<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; For reasons unknown, he made his entrance in a dress \u2013 which was quickly taken off with the help of two female stagehands.&nbsp; Onstage with a moderator, Dreyfuss showed some clips from his career, and audience members asked a number of questions.&nbsp; When the subject turned to the film <strong><em>Nuts<\/em><\/strong>, he called <strong>Barbra Streisand <\/strong>a genius and a great talent, but also said she is stubborn and she should know her place.&nbsp; Curiously, he added \u201cwomen are so passive&#8230;that\u2019s why the movie sucked.\u201d&nbsp; When asked about the #MeToo movement, he said many of those people make him want to vomit.&nbsp; Somehow he dovetailed to trans youths, saying how \u201cyou shouldn\u2019t be listening to some 10-year-old who says they want to be a boy instead of a girl\u201d.&nbsp; He added, \u201cIt\u2019s not OK because when the kid\u2019s 15, she\u2019s going to say, \u2018I\u2019m an octopus\u2019.\u201d&nbsp; At that point, a flurry of people walked out.&nbsp; He also talked about how many of the problems in this country came about when the schools stopped teaching civics \u2013 which I find hard to disagree with.&nbsp; After the fact, the actor\u2019s son Ben spoke up saying, \u201cWell, now you know why I refused to give him the password to his own twitter account for a decade.\u201d&nbsp; You can see clips from the evening on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a somewhat Boston-related Ask Billy question, Kyle in Philadelphia asked, \u201cIs Richard Dreyfuss insane?&nbsp; What happened at that screening of Jaws when he went off on women, trans people, and Barbra?\u201d This is what happens when I leave Boston \u2013 chaos ensues.&nbsp; Although, to be fair, the incident in question happened in Beverly, Massachusetts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92690,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92689\/revisions\/92690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}