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Together, Mia and Dustin represent a coincidence of other myths: the airborne colleen and the earthbound Jew, Peter Pan and Peter Schlemiel, the miserable winner and the happy loser. Like most myths, they contain an indissoluble grain of truth. Mia Farrow has been cowering from show-business success like a cornered rabbit. Hoffman has been swimming backward in it like a lobster. To Mia, life is colored with pastels and studded with magic stones; to Hoffman, it is a black-and-white documentary. She can skip down Manhattan's Third Avenue without creating a ripple. When Hoffman is recognized...
...anti-way, heroic. But hardly atypical. For an actor, it is impossible to become a leading man until he has a face: that is his hardship. For an actress, it is possible to become a leading lady as soon as she has a body: that is her handicap. Mia Farrow's measurements are closely akin to a newel post's. "I look like an elephants' graveyard," she admits. Nevertheless, it is a body. The face is something else; the exquisite bone structure and the fine, flawless skin suggest an antique doll. But so do the faces of other girls...
...series of interviews with TIME Reporter Jay Cocks, Farrow, speaking in her sotto voce that raises "Good morning" to the level of a state secret, took some of those particles and put them together in vaguely chronological order. In nearly every respect, Farrow began as Hoffman's polar opposite. He was outside show business with his nose pressed up against the window. In Hollywood, Mia was Old Money: her father was Director John Farrow, her mother Actress Maureen O'Sullivan. The third of seven children, Mia was always the vulnerable one. "I got all the diseases," she recalls, "including polio...
Hoffman's education was entirely public; Farrow's completely parochial. She "had the screaming meemies" the first time she saw a nun?at the age of four. But at ten she decided to become one. "They told me they wouldn't have me. Incompatible and everything, you know. I really wasn't their type." Actually she wasn't anybody's type. Underdeveloped, undernourished, she found that only her family and her fantasies could tune...
Even in Mia's childhood, moviemaking was a global business. The nine Farrows trooped from Los Angeles to Spain, then on to London, where a series of tragedies began. "You can't be Irish without knowing the world is going to break your heart before you're 40," goes the Gaelic lament. For Mia the time was halved. Although the Farrow family life was chaotic and neurotic, there were still close alliances within its framework. In London at '13, she learned that her brother Michael, with whom she had been closest, had been killed in a private-plane crash...