Dreyfuss make up

I have the movie on videotape recorded from one of the movie channels around 1992 or thereabouts, so the color is pretty muted. I hadn't noticed he was sporting evil clown makeup. But, yeah, this was shot during his addiction years.

When he was doing the promotional rounds for "Mr. Holland's Opus," I remember him saying that it was a challenge playing a music teacher because he'd never done a music-related movie before. I think I even shouted at the TV, "Hey, what about 'The Competition'?" Cocaine must be a hell of a drug for him to forget doing that film.

I looked up The Competition on imdb partly because I wondered if anyone else was shocked by Dreyfuss's make-up. In addition to the pancake makeup and blush layered rather heavily over his face, he appeared to have on eye make-up as well. I was most distracted by the eye-shadow he seemed to be sporting in quite a few scenes. I also got a kick out of his several of his outfits in the film-particularly the cap and tan corduroy pants. He has an unusual way of walking-he's a short fella with rather stubby legs and he struts, almost like a peacock--very cocky and self-confident. In the scene where he's on-stage picking out his piano for the competition this strutting (in my fav outfit) is particularly noticeable. As he's aged (or matured) he definitely has lost a lot of that attitude. It's very present in other of his great films, "The Good-Bye Girl". I hope I don't sound overly critical-I've been watching and enjoying his performance since the early 70's -"The Good-Bye Girl", "Jaws" "Close Encounters" . Later on I discovered his earlier role in "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (sp?). He even has a funny cameo in "The Graduate". He is a true original.