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Before he went to work on this week's cover story, TIME Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer made a point of meeting his subjects-Mia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman. "No matter how good the reporting," he explains, "it's important to find some things out for yourself. I like to get people's music, to see at first hand what they look and sound like." Kanfer visited the set of John & Mary, had lunches with Farrow and Hoffman, and came away with new enthusiasm for his assignment. Hoffman he found a "natural," Farrow a "supernatural." Cinema Reporter...
Researchers Mary Cronin and Catherine Rafferty completed the reporting, which included visits with Mia's mother and several of Dustin's close friends. The resulting picture of the two stars (or anti-stars) was a tantalizing study in contrasts. To sum up the contrasts, says Peter Bird Martin who edited the story, he and the Cinema staff started a kind of game of far-out comparisons-for example, Titania and Bottom. Other, even more ambitious efforts were worked into the story...
...Mary and John? The ad announcing the new production says it in ideographs: Rosemary's baby carriage perched atop Mrs. Robinson's knee. Mia Farrow, 23, and Dustin Hoffman, 31. The wandering waif and the victim of the middle class. Mrs. Sinatra and Mr. Acne. Novelist Flannery O'Connor put it another way: "Everything that rises must converge." The casting together of the two fastest-rising performers in the business was inevitable?it always is. But it once took half a career to manage the box-office mergers of Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn...
...Stevens once wrote that a community of originals is not a community. But each year brings more originals, more actresses like Mia Farrow, who asks: "What does it mean to be a star today? The only real value it has is in being offered more and better parts." And Dustin Hoffman, who says, "I've always had this fantasy?every actor has, I guess?that when I made it, I'd be able to do whatever I wanted." Up in the Hollywood hills, the superstars may grumble at the youngsters who have turned their backs on the old values...
...opted for the small apartment over the big house, the East over the West, Both feel that though there may be New York and New York, and Chicago and Chicago, there is only one Los Angeles. "I'm not connected with it," says Mia, who was born there. To Dustin, who was raised there, "there's this great emphasis on the external: the automobile you drive, the house you live in. The day The Graduate was finished shooting, I flew back to New York. I just couldn't wait to get back...