Word: filming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Benton makes no extravagant claims for his new film. Says he: "The picture isn't meant to be a film about the in justices of the legal system or about whether fathers or mothers are better qualified to raise kids. The film is, above all, a love story and a story about marriage...
...trip to stardom began, though he did not know it at the time, about two years ago, when Kramer vs. Kramer scouts started looking at nonprofessionals to play the role of Billy, who is really the film's central character. They went to Justin's school in Rye, a suburb of New York City, to look around, and that night his principal called to say they wanted him to audition in Manhattan. "I wasn't so excited," he says, "but I went anyway. There were 200 of us in the first tryout. Mr. Benton called each...
...eternally dissatisfied with what he has achieved. Right now he isn't negative about Kramer. But I have no doubt that in six months he'll be saying, I should have done it differently.' " Maybe not this time. Kramer is more than just another film to Hoffman. He has a special feeling toward children-and they toward him. "He's one of those natural fathers," says Benton. "Kids drift to him instinctively and immediately. For that reason I worked out an arrangement...
...pond; rarely have the varieties of anguish and uncertainty been so thoroughly catalogued through look and gesture. Streep's understated suffering rescues the character of Joanna Kramer from a virtually no-win plot: bad enough that a mother should leave her young child and then disappear from the film for nearly an hour; worse still that she come back and try to break up the new life that her husband and son have painfully built. "If Joanna is a villain," Streep recently told TIME'S Elaine Dutka, "if there's a white hat-black hat situation, that...
During one, a Central Park production of Measure for Measure, she worked with John Cazale, a respected actor known to film audiences for his role as the cowardly son Fredo in The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II. They fell in love and began living together. Actor Joe Grifasi, a friend of both at the time, says: "Meryl admired his ability to cut through the crap and focus on the essentials. He was very careful to maintain his equilibrium." They spent as much time together as their careers permitted; the summer of 1977 found them in Steubenville, Ohio, working...