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...paraphrase Dustin Hoffman's cri de coeur in the film Kramer vs. Kramer: "What law is it that says a person is better suited to look after a child just because she is a woman...
Coatless, tieless and triumphantly clutching his Best Actor Oscar, Dustin Hoffman could not resist a post-award press conference zinger at TV gossip Rona Barrett, who had dismissed Best Movie Kramer vs. Kramer as so much soap suds. Said he, spotting Barrett in the press crush: "Well, the soap opera won." Kramer swept five major prizes in the 52nd Academy Awards show. "I'm trying to hear the question over my heartbeat," cooed Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actress as Ms. Kramer. Complimented on her Trigère gown, Streep, who is Mrs. Don Gummer in real life, blushingly swept...
...being the side of the human species we are. I agree that it was wrong for you to be treated as you were by the detectives, Ms. Sharp, but I cannot agree that the incident is another case of men not acting as they should, perhaps a la Dustin Hoffman, but as they must because, after all, they were...
...SEEM to have passed the anti-hero phase in Hollywood. Dustin Hoffman has abandoned Benjamin Braddock and Ratso Rizzo for Ted Kramer. Even in "B" films like American Gigolo, the misfit hero is not glorified for his sins at the finale but redeemed, primped for "normal" society. But Wise Blood is not a Hollywood film, nor is it about normal society. In Huston's hands, Hazel Motes becomes not a hero or an anti-hero but a non-hero, one of us living out the internal battle between Jesus and Satan...
...wonder London cinema buffs did double takes. Wasn't that the Kramer family from Manhattan, together again, ambling about the city on a combination business and pleasure trip? For Actors Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Justin Henry, of course, the business was the British premiere of their hit movie, Kramer vs. Kramer. On hand for the glittering opening at London's Odeon Theater was another well-known family, the Windsors. "Will the film make us cry?" asked Queen Elizabeth II, chatting with eight-year-old Justin, who nearly stole the show in his first acting assignment. Said...