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  • Success didn`t change me. I was already distorted before I became a star.
  • [1970] The Oscars are some sort of masturbatory fantasy. People think: an Academy Award -- now if I get a parking ticket I don`t have to pay it. I don`t put the Award down. But, at my sanest, I would rather have a good three-man basketball game than sit here in my monkey suit.
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  • Ex brother-in-law of Roslyn Kind.
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  • Former son-in-law of director Paul Bogart.
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  • He and his Ocean`s Eleven (2001) / Ocean`s Twelve (2004) co-stars, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, all have guest-starred on the TV show "Friends" (1994), though not in the same episodes
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  • His son, Sam Gould, was born in January, 1973. He had a daughter before that.
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  • Is a regular guest on FOX News Channel broadcasts.
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  • Starred in The Last Flight of Noah`s Ark (1980) and then played God in Noah`s Ark: The New Beginning (2008).
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  • The only actor to have a cameo appearance in more than one Muppet film: The Muppet Movie (1979) and The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984).
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  • Was the lead in the film adaptation of Herman Raucher`s novel "A Glimpse of Tiger" and one day walked off the set for reasons then unclear. He had been playing a wild, clownish, unpredictable character. A new director, Peter Bogdanovich, then got involved and the project morphed into what we know as the remake of Bringing Up Baby (1938)--What`s Up, Doc? (1972), with the wild, clownish, unpredictable character changing genders and played by his ex-wife, Barbra Streisand.
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  • Director Ingmar Bergman denounced Gould as "difficult" after the two worked together in Beröringen (1971) ("The Touch") in 1971, one of the great master`s least memorable films.
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  • Father, with singer-actress Barbra Streisand, of actor Jason Gould.
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  • Has hosted "Saturday Night Live" (1975) six times.
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  • He and Jennifer Bogart had two children before they wed in 1974.
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  • He and MASH (1970) co-star Donald Sutherland both own apartments in same Manhattan high-rise luxury building.
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  • MASH (1970) director Robert Altman originally wanted him to play Duke Forrest. It was only at his request that he played Trapper John.
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  • Spouse: Jennifer Bogart (9 June 1978 - 1979) (separated); Jennifer Bogart (8 December 1973 - 1976) (divorced) 2 children; Barbra Streisand (21 March 1963 - 9 July 1971) (divorced) 1 child
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  • Was a major box office star in 1970 and 1971, but according to Robert Altman, Gould hadn`t been able to find a job for six months when he hired him for The Long Goodbye (1973). Critic Hollis Alpert speculated that Gould`s anti-heroic character was extremely popular with campus radicals, and once radicalism declined around the time of Richard Nixon`s re-election in 1972, Gould`s popularity also declined.
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  • Was originally attached to the movie version of Dr. David Reuben`s best-selling sex guide Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), but backed out. The film was made by Woody Allen in 1972.
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  • Was the first actor to play the character of Trapper John, in the film version of MASH (1970). The second actor was Wayne Rogers in the TV series ("M*A*S*H" (1972)) and the third was Pernell Roberts for the TV series "Trapper John, M.D." (1979).
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