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Since the actors are Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, and since the suffering is real, the audience quickly finds that it is impossible to turn away...
...required to cry, Justin would go off and think of sad things, like the possibility of some injury to his dog Chipper, a golden retriever. Once, just before he was supposed to turn on the tears, he went into a dark room to prepare, just as he had seen Dustin Hoffman...
...typing at great speed. Sykes never does find his own feet, but at a party one day he confides his loss to an editor, who signs him to a three-book contract. The surrogate feet become television celebrities, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in the movie version of Sykes' life, and he goes off to make a television commercial for corn plasters...
...much of his career Tom Conti has been called the British Dustin Hoffman. He looks so much like Hoff man that he once fooled even himself. "I did a film a couple of years ago," he says, "and there was a bit in which I was lying upside down, unconscious in a sailboat. The shot came up later on when I was watching the rushes and I thought. 'God! That's Dustin Hoffman!' " Conti also finds himself in odd positions in Whose Life Is It Any way?, but not for a second does the audience doubt whom it is seeing...
Christie is played by Vanessa Redgrave, the American by Dustin Hoffman−a very odd couple indeed. Redgrave simply has no peer when it comes to playing women rendered both vulnerable and awkward by the intensity of emotions that cannot be fully expressed. She is lovely and touching. Hoffman's character is based on a vanished type, the journalistic dandy of the Richard Harding Davis variety. He's a man who travels with a dozen suitcases full of bespoke clothing, knows his way around menus and room clerks, has the air of a self-made...