Word: dustin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Isabelle Adjani are filming Ishtar in New York City, everyone has taken a vow of silence. In the circumstances, this may have made more sense than taking a vow of poverty or chastity, but it put the rumor mill into overdrive. Worst was the word that the breathtaking Adjani was playing a young man. Such casting would have been a high offense against Gallic gifts, as Adjani proved anew in a recent photo session modeling her favorite clothes from the collections of such designers as Paris' Azzedine Alaia. But Adjani admirers, fear...
Heard is nearly as good as the wimpy son who begins to realize that he is a loser in life because he cannot dream. His mannerisms are strikingly similar to those of Dustin Hoffman, coming off like a Houston version of Willy Loman from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. His portrayal of Ludie is both convincing and subtle...
...Pudding established a parallelaward for male entertainers. Recipients includeJames Stewart, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman,Steven Spielberg, and Bill Murray
Which ties it to THE GRADUATE (Harvard Square). Mike Nichols' masterwork whips the desperation motif into full-fledged obsession with a strong 60's tinge. It's Dustin Hoffman's first film role and arguably his best as the boy next door seduced by the mother next door who falls for the girl next door. For freshmen, at least one screening is as perfunctory as first-year writing class--not to be practiced on vacations, but for collegiate literacy the next time someone mumbles, "Just like The Graduate...
Once written, even the best script may die for a variety of reasons. Material developed for a star like Dustin Hoffman will be dead if the bankable name is not interested. Heads of studios change, and so do Hollywood fashions. Current trends favor movies about teens in turmoil and Clint Eastwood films without Clint Eastwood (Code of Silence, Witness). Writers who are fashioning clones of these movies may finish just in time to see their work outmoded by a new trend. "It's like a slot machine," observes Writer Howard Franklin. "You can have done your job well...