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Portraying a psychiatrist reluctantly agreeing to treat a young autistic patient who may hold the clue to his parents' mur- ders, Mr. Dreyfuss — cajoling, kvetching, carping — tries to ease the elusive truth out of his silent witness. It is an ironic twist of circum- stances for Mr. Dreyfuss' char- acter, who has lived in his own world of silence for years — shut- ting out memories of an incident years before, when he lost a young patient in a tragedy. The courts found the doctor in- nocent of any complicity in the youngster's death, but memory can convict on its own, sometimes with a viciousness for which there is no leniency. There is no time off for good be- havior for the good doctor. The psychiatrist has lost his ambition and interest in life. It is a complicated role for a complex actor whose credits are not so easy to categorize outside of their general commitment to excellence. Richard Dreyfuss has tried comedy (What About Bob? Stakeout, Tin Men and The Good- bye Girl, for which he won an Os- car), historical drama (HBO's Prisoner of Honor, about the Dreyfus Affair) and classic sci- ence fiction (Close Encounters of the Third Kind). A close encounter with the 47- year-old Brooklyn-born Drey- fuss about his role in the new film reveals an intense actor in- tent on getting the message across that movies are, by and large, entertainment. And nobody, says the actor with an outrageously infectious laugh, is a better audience than he is. "I like to entertain myself," he says of the process of picking projects. "I'm always looking for a good story or character that is, in some way, connected to the world." Or out of it. Mr. Dreyfuss' por- trayal of the aliens' choice to board their spacecraft in Close Encounters was the critics' choice for huzzahs in 1977. So were his portrayals of the itchy, greedy Jewish entrepreneur in The Ap- prenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) and the small-time Jew- ish hood with larger-than-life Michael Elkin is the entertainment editor of the Jewish Exponent in Philidelphia. dreams in last year's Lost in Yonkers. Richard Dreyfuss has found a sense of purpose in Hollywood, it would seem. There is an ele- ment of social responsibility in much of the actor's work. But talk to him and you discover that his interest lies more in the enter- tainment value of a role than in its "message." "I would like to think that is why I choose roles," because of their social significance, he says this "serious fellow with a prob- lem in his past." The challenge for the actor was in "making a balance" — doing a film about autism that also is a thriller. "If we had made just a film about autism, it would have been a clinical, sterile film," says the actor. And Mr. Dreyfuss, a fertile source for complex characteriza- tions, had no intention of doing that. To ready for his role, he Richard Dreyfuss and Linda Hamilton in 'Silent Fall'. with a wide grin. "But that's not the case. I want something that entertains." Not that he's not committed to causes: "My parents were pro- gressive liberal Democrats. I grew up thinking that's what Ju- daism is all about." And, so it seems, that is what Richard Dreyfuss is all about. Long active on behalf of peace in Israel, Mr. Dreyfuss has seen his activism pay off in the Mideast peace process. As an ardent advocate for Americans for Peace Now, and as a onetime student of Torah in a Hollywood enclave, Richard Dreyfuss has long been concerned with Jewish, Israeli and political causes. "I pick my shots," he says of his political concerns. And the accord reached between Israel and the Palestinians has him pleased. His vocal involvement as an activist says much about the in- tense actor. When it comes to looking for messages in his films, however, he would rather the story do the talking for him. There is no mystery why Mr. Dreyfuss chose this mystery/ chiller as a project, since it show- cases his many talents. He says he enjoyed the role of studied with an autism expert at UCLA. He also found a fund of infor- mation in screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, whose parents are child psychologists working with autistic children. What about playing opposite child performers, supposedly anathema to actors? No problem, says Mr. Dreyfuss, who can hold his own on screen — even when pitted against such natural scene stealers as beginner Ben Faulkner, who portrays the 9- year-old autistic murder witness, and the stunning Liv Tyler, also making her film debut in Silent Fall, as the sister of the autistic child. Richard Dreyfuss is not a self- ish performer, he shared insights and rehearsal time with the two actors. While Ben Faulkner, 11, is a novice before the camera, Liv Tyler is not. The 18-year-old was a model before turning to film. She is also familiar with what it means to be the focus of atten- tion: Ms. Tyler is the daughter of former model Bebe Buell and Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler. For the record, Mr. Dreyfuss was impressed with the actors' accomplishments. Was he also