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Such was the cautionary power of this work that one's largest fear, approaching the new, palpitatingly anticipated Broadway production of Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman in a role he admitted wanting to play since he began acting, only a decade after Miller finished writing it, was that we might have learned too well the lessons Willy taught. Perhaps familiarity might have rendered him irrelevant, a figure of nostalgic curiosity, conceivably, but of vastly diminished power to engage the emotions...
...what newspapers tend to call a "veteran observer"-and a fond one at that-the emphasis on jazzy design changes in all these post-mortem announcements has an air of desperation, like Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie: "I can be taller! I can be shorter!" Come now, get hold of yourself; be what you are. The reader has to appreciate more pages, more opinions, but he is not likely to be fooled by a newspaper whose looks have been tinkered with so as to ape a television screen. Besides, the color reception in most papers is uneven. Ever count the number...
...Dustin Hoffman was a raw ingenue in Tootsie. Though only 33, Bando is already a master onnagata, a man who plays female roles in the centuries-old art of Kabuki. So apposite are his opposite-sex portrayals that he is the object of study by aspiring actresses and real-life geishas seeking to refine their feminine ways. "To act as an onnagata, "he says, "is to try to create an ideal; what I as a man would consider to be the ideal woman." Bando has also done non-Kabuki work, including heralded performances as Lady Macbeth and Desdemona...
...alone have audiences been instructed and entertained by movies like Victor/Victoria, in which a woman impersonates a man in order to impersonate a woman; and The World According to Garp, featuring John Lithgow as the transsexual ex-pro-football player with a heart of gold; and Tootsie, in which Dustin Hoffman, decked out as the soap-opera heroine Dorothy Michaels, both receives and delivers his revelation: "I was a better man as a woman with a woman than I've ever been as a man with a woman." That, of course, is the essential message in these bottles: when...
...Dustin Hoffman were filming a remake of The Graduate, the well-meaning family friend who pulled him aside to utter one word worth a million dollars would not say "Plastics." Today he would whisper "Aseptics." That is the name for a kind of packaging technique, a sort of second cousin to the retort pouch used by campers. Aseptics may change American packaging in the '80s the way plastics replaced many paper and cellophane wrappings in the '60s. In brown bags and school lunch boxes across the U.S., little boxes of fruit juice and other drinks are becoming...