Word: bernsteins
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...Hoffman is just as essential to the film as Redford; partly because he plays the more interesting character, his performance may well be more vividly remembered. At 38, Hoffman is the best character lead in the business; it seems impossible to imagine anyone else as Carl Bernstein. On the set Hoffman is a tough, uncompromising craftsman. Pakula's crablike approach to film making, which so unnerved Redford, was just fine with Hoffman, who thrives on improvisation. "I fight like hell with my directors," he says, "but this was a relatively pleasant experience...
first-rate paper, though there is no doubt that it misses the excitement and the unifying cause of Watergate. As for Woodward and Bernstein, despite their new riches, they remain Post employees; their life-styles are a lot more comfortable but essentially unchanged from the days before their fame. Friends report no apparent danger that either is about to indulge in celebrity carryings-on. Indeed, they have spent the last year working at their trade, reporting the death throes of the Administration they were instrumental in bringing down. Their new book, The Final Days, to be published by Simon & Schuster...
...Says Woodward: "The film taught me something about my business?seeing how they treated it and how they cared for it. The movie's not just pretty damned true, it is true. I just think, if reporters see it, they'll say, 'This is how we do it.' " Adds Bernstein: "They did a spectacular reporting job to do this movie. Good reporters get their sources to trust them, and that's what they did with...
...unfinished story that Woodward and Bernstein told in All the President's Men is about to be continued. Next month Simon & Schuster will publish their second collaborative effort, The Final Days, an account of the ending of Richard Nixon's presidency. The two reporters received a $300,000 advance for the work, which is a May Book-of-the-Month Club selection...
According to reports from those familiar with the book, The Final Days is an extraordinarily detailed portrait of the collapse of the former President. Woodward and Bernstein state that Nixon took to drinking in the afternoon in his little hideaway in the Executive Office Building. His appointments became fewer and his office hours more erratic as his control of Government slipped away. There were days when he did not come over from the mansion until noon. Once, almost at the end, he was heard saying "Goodbye" to the portraits of his predecessors on the White House walls. He cried...