34 Friday, January 22, 1982

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Dreyfuss Rises to New Challenge in 'Whose Life Is it Anyway?'

now on the screen the prin- only accepted challenges, he before returning to Hol- wit," he explains. "It makes
cipal character of a quadrip- is constantly challenging lywood for "The Compe- you laugh, but it's 'not an
arbitrarily light play. In-
legic once more is portrayed himself to go one step tition."
With his usual thorough- stead of being a one-note
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further.
HOLLYWOOD
by a man.
Dreyfuss began his total After winning an Oscar ness, Dreyfuss has analyzed film, it has abrupt shifts in
Richard Dreyfuss, now star-
involvement with the per- for his portrayal of an off- all facets of "Whose Life Is It highs and lows. You can be
ring in MGM's "Whose Life
sonality of the young Broadway performer, im- Anyway?" "It's a drama taken from pity to laughter
Is It Anyway?", believes
sculptor, paralyzed from the mersed in a bizarre produc- about a man with a sharp in almost every scene. -
that freedom of choice, not
neck down in an automobile tion of "Richard III" and an
euthanasia, is being advo-
accident, three months affair with a happenstance
prior to the start of filming roommate in Neil Simon's
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physicality and immense absence to star with Amy
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By HERBERT LUFT

(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)

cated by author Brian
Clark.
The West End and
Broadway play originally
starred Tom Conti; the New
York production switched to
a female lead, Mary Tyler
Moore; in Los Angeles the
lead was Lucie Arnaz; and

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