‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley

By Elle Hunt

 

Muhammad Ali told him: ‘You do what you do as well as I do what I do” ... Elliott Gould Photograph: Christopher Polk/Fox via Getty Images

 

The 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.

 

“Isn’t that great?” he says, his distinctive nasal, New York baritone now deepened with age.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/20/elliott-gould-mash-the-long-goodbye-friends-streisand-elvis

Not only did I smoke it , I grew it.

Normal late 70's early 80's

and i'm still smoking it ❤️

(all legal of course!)