Talk:Richard Dreyfuss

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Contents 1 personal life 2 Dreyfuss affair 3 Pronunciation 4 Status Update 5 Photo

[edit] personal life

in the section personal life, it says his name is German for "tripod" but he claims to be a descendent of the famous wrongly convicted french officer Alfred Dreyfuss. and also, dreyfuss is not "tripod" as claimed, the closest thing in German is drei fuss which means three feet not tripod. BTW, why is that information pertinent?

I looked it up, and dreyfuss is Yiddish, not German, for "tripod." Of course, "tripod" itself is simply Graeco-Latin for "three foot." marbeh raglaim 15:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Still, I don't think this is important information. Why is it important to know thta his name derives from the yiddish word for tripod/three feet? 84.184.203.202 16:33, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

"Stative" I believe is German for tripod.--LAgurl 09:01, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dreyfuss affair

Is he in any way related to the infamous Dreyfuss affair jewish official? And to Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (of Seinfeld fame)?

NO!

I have heard that he is distantly related to both of those Dreyfusses, but I don't have any proof at hand. marbeh raglaim 17:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Given the absence of proof, I've added a "citation needed" tag to the claim that he's a direct descendant of Alfred Dreyfus. JackofOz 20:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

That pronunciatio thing is just not true. I am going to delete it. his name is pronounced DRY-fuss, not DRAY-fuss. Its a european pronunciation, the DRAY-fuss. I swear to you it's DREY-fuss, and since theres no ciation for it, im gonna cut it. Janemansfield74 19:00, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Status Update

I've edited some of the material, added more information about some aspects of his career including his work in the past two years, and have doubled the references. As a result, I'm removing the "Needs more References" tag and hope that despite some slight grammatical editing, this might be upgraded to the next class of article on Wikipedia.

- Taospark (talk) 06:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

Is there a higher resolution or more flattering photograph available? One can hardly make him out in the current one. --75.41.7.195 (talk) 02:19, 9 April 2008 (UTC)