For Richard Dreyfuss, It's a Wonderful Second Life

ABC-TV miniseries star is lucky to be alive.

When actor Richard Dreyfuss crashed his Mercedes-Benz two-seater on Benedict Canyon Dr. in Los Angeles in 1982, authorities noted the actor would probably have been killed had he not been wearing a seat belt.

But here’s the thing. In those days, Dreyfuss never wore a seat belt. As he tells Ron Rosenbaum in the new issue of Smithsonian magazine, the incident – all these years later – still has a mystical quality:

“I was a famous movie star; I was rich and I was acting like a low-down dirty dog.

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