Past illustrious visitors to the LJCC include American actor Richard Dreyfuss who Notebook spoke to there in 2006 in the wake of his departure from the London production of Mel Brooks's The Producers. Dreyfuss was taking part in a rehearsed reading of a play in which he took on the role of Freud. Unfortunately it seems the experience of playing the world's greatest psychiatrist did not help with some of his own personal "issues", one of which appears to be an outstanding debt of around £435,000 owed to him by his father Norman and his uncle Gilbert. Dreyfuss recently filed a lawsuit against the pair. The amount reportedly includes interest and damages. The non-repayment might explain why Dreyfuss returned to the movies in the pretty awful 2006 blockbuster Poseidon only two years after announcing his retirement. When Notebook asked him, he said candidly: "I only did that for the money."
