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...queen. That seduction scene from The Graduate showed the uses to which ANNE BANCROFT, 73, who died last week of uterine cancer, could apply her fierce intelligence and bold sexuality. As the predatory mother figure Mrs. Robinson, Bancroft (though she was only six years older than her co-star Dustin Hoffman) created a Francis Bacon portrait of brains gone to waste, and lust as idle combat...
Given this pervasive electronic wallpaper, Martin naturally describes characters in terms ready made for a passive audience. The lawyer he chooses to represent him in the divorce is "a guy who looked like Wayne Newton." An oddly menacing figure who turns up at Dominica's motel "looked like Dustin Hoffman, for some reason." Similarly, Martin reports on natural scenery most confidently when he can compare it to name-brand products. Walking along the beach, he notes that "the Gulf shined like mylar." Out for a drive, he remarks, "The clouds were like spills of dark Cool Whip going in slow...
...acerbic comedy-drama, about a young man's anomic dalliance with his girlfriend's mom, got mistaken for 1967's feel-good romance (and its sardonic theme song for a love song). It's better seen as New York City's joke on the California dream, by stage veterans Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft and director Mike Nichols. The film caps its triumphal happy ending by having its lovers stare into the future and the suburban, plastic life yawning at them. THE WILD RIDE He was just 23 in 1960, but Jack Nicholson had already perfected the Jack Nicholson attitude...
...Name: Dustin Moskovitz
...very first people to do so was me,” Dustin A. Moskovitz ’06-’07, who has worked on TheFacebook since its creation last year, writes in an e-mail. “Actually. I used it in April-May as part of a 30 page paper for my Econ tutorial...