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...When you've got KEVIN KLINE in your film, you don't want to lose him behind a mask," says director Michael Hoffman. He is referring to his decision to have Kline (seen here with MICHELLE PFEIFFER) withstand 3 1/2 hours of makeup rather than don a donkey suit to play Bottom in the forthcoming remake of A Midsummer Night's Dream. For his version of Shakespeare's tale of nymphs, fairies, queens and mismatched lovers, Hoffman sought to explore the vagaries of romance: "It struck me that all the characters were involved in a conflict between the desire...
...opening scene of The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock (played by a young Dustin Hoffman) is awkwardly working an affluent Southern California crowd at a graduation party arranged for him by his parents when a family friend offers one of the century's most famous pieces of cinematic advice: "I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics...
Hankins estimates that he writes about 300 letters of recommendation each year. Mark A. Kishlansky, Baird professor of history, puts his yearly figure at around 120, while Buttenwieser University Professor of History Stanley H. Hoffman says he writes upwards...
...fail to referee? While the study did not document the reasons, experts offered several possibilities. In some cases, parents may be influenced by the oversimplified counsel that "kids will be kids." Others may be worried about favoring one child over another and choose to do nothing. Child psychiatrist Leon Hoffman, who runs the Parent Child Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, says many parents are afraid of being too aggressive and then take a permissive, hands-off approach...
...certainly feel a duty to attend FacultyMeetings when important issues are at stake," saysStanley H. Hoffman, Buttenweiser Universityprofessor. Hoffman was giving a Faculty seminarduring last Tuesday's meeting. "When the mainissue at stake is changing the name of adepartment or a program, well, sometimes, Iconfess, I decide I have some better things todo--like teach for instance," he said...