The star of M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye – and more recently, Friends – talks about drugs, his fiery marriage to Barbra Streisand and getting his best reviews from Groucho Marx and Muhammad AliThe best review ever received by Elliott Gould – renowned actor and star of M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye; not to mention, Ross and Monica’s dad on Friends – was from Groucho Marx.
The two of them had become close in the comedian’s latter years – so close, Gould says, “he used to let me shave him”.
One day Marx asked Gould to change a lightbulb in his bedroom.
Gould took off his shoes, stood on the bed and replaced the broken bulb.
Marx told him: “That was the best acting I’ve ever seen you do.”Gould, now 81, has been telling the story for decades – but it is clear even in our pixelated video call that it still delights him.
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