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"  In your new film Arbitrage, you play a hedge-fund manager who runs a Ponzi-type scheme. Was he based on Bernie Madoff? We made a point of not making him the Madoff psychotic type. He&amp;#039;s more of an everyman. We all take shortcuts; we all lie a little almost every day in some way. So what lies do you tell on a daily basis? &amp;quot;God, that&amp;#039;s a beautiful dress! You look fabulous.&amp;quot; We usually do that out of benevolence, or sometimes out of selfishness. We manipulate our world to get what we want. You&amp;#039;ve played some pretty memorable roles, from the male escort in American Gigolo to a gynecologist taking careof some very well-heeled ladies in Dr. T and the Women. Is there a common thread here? What are you trying to say? [Laughs] No, I don&amp;#039;t think there&amp;#039;s a common thread. If there is a thread, it&amp;#039;s not because I&amp;#039;ve followed it. I didn&amp;#039;t set out to make a specific career. I worked on what I thought was interesting. I&amp;#039;ve never had a game plan. You recently opened an inn near your home in Bedford, NY. I would think you&amp;#039;d want to safeguard your privacy a bit more. There&amp;#039;s plenty of privacy. I hate to tell you, but I&amp;#039;m not there greeting guests every day. You mean if I checked in, you wouldn&amp;#039;t be the one carrying my bags to my room? You know, that did happen once. I happened to be there just as this couple arrived, and the concierge stepped away and we were short-staffed, so I wound up carrying their luggage to their room. Even they laughed. What do you like about living in Bedford? It&amp;#039;s stunningly beautiful, and quiet and soulful. It&amp;#039;s my favorite place in the world. Do you miss living in the city? I like New York, but I don&amp;#039;t miss it. My life is pretty simple and normal. I&amp;#039;m in love with my wife [the actress Carey Lowell] and I love my son, and they&amp;#039;re the center of my universe. That&amp;#039;s so sweet. What are you guys into? Carey is into pottery. We&amp;#039;re baseball people. It&amp;#039;s my seventh year that I&amp;#039;ve coached Little League. My son [Homer] just graduated from the program. I hear you have quite the collection of guitars, and you recently auctioned them off. Each one of them had a story to me, but with the urging of my wife, I sold 120 of them for a good cause--helping the Tibetan people, HIV-AIDS research, and disaster relief in India. So--wait. Your wife asked you to lose the guitars. Are you a hoarder? If you asked Carey, she&amp;#039;d say yes. Guitars take up a lot of space. Do you still play guitar every day? Oh, yeah. What else do you do every day? I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life. How long have you been a Buddhist? Forty years. Has it made you mellower? Sometimes I&amp;#039;m kind of spacey. I&amp;#039;m like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what&amp;#039;s going on in the real world. I tend to be a bit of a dreamer. RICHARD AT A GLANCE Childhood talent: &amp;quot;PLAYING TRUMPET. My family was a musical bunch. We still hang out around the piano and sing.&amp;quot; Life&amp;#039;s passion: &amp;quot;THE GERE FOUNDATION. It was set up to help sponsor human rights in Tibet and support the Dalai Lama.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;re most likely to find him: &amp;quot;WATCHING MOVIES. Carey makes great popcorn!&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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