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...much,'" she points out. "Eating quarts of ice cream at night, smoking three packs a day and sitting at the computer 10 hours at a time." I wait in vain for her to get to the too-much part. Later I screw up my courage and phone Donna Hoffman, a professor at Vanderbilt University who has conducted more studies of online usage than anyone else I know. "Color me baffled," she says. Hoffman believes the report is critically flawed. For starters, there was no control group--composed of, say, people outside Pittsburgh. Teenagers were the largest group in the sample...
...Hoffman, how much are you online? "A lot of the time," she says. "When I am awake." I press her to be more specific. "Easily more than 10 hours a week," she admits, adding quickly that "far from being depressed, I am a happy person." This perks me up. Perhaps I will leave the house today after all. After one more quart of ice cream...
Hollywood is abuzz with rumors that former superagent and Disney president Michael Ovitz plans to start a talent-management business. He would presumably bring along former clients, including Sydney Pollack, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Kevin Costner. The fact that most on that list are over 50 has apparently not been lost on Ovitz, who is said to be courting Brad Grey (who declined) and hot young Hollywood manager Rick Yorn, of Industry Entertainment. Yorn represents Leonardo DiCaprio, for one. Other clients include Cameron Diaz and Claire Danes...
...DAVID PUTTNAM Producer of classy films like Chariots of Fire is named chairman of Columbia Pictures. Soon disparages the work of Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray and Bill Cosby. Departs before long...
...Robin Hoffman, 32, a dance notator who records choreography for the Paul Taylor Dance Company in New York City, knows the importance of timing. The former ballet dancer paid $3,400 in February to take a one-semester course at N.Y.U. in multimedia technique. She needed it to keep up in her field, since computers are slowly replacing graph paper and pencil for dance notation. "I couldn't even imagine five or six years ago taking a course like this," Hoffman says. "But this way I could learn a lot in a short period of time while still keeping...