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...last of Hoffmann's triad of heartbreaking heroines is the conniving courtesan Giulietta (Heidi Brown). A slave to the evil Dappertutto (again played by Benaim), she tries to steal the soul of Hoffman by capturing his reflection in a mirror. She abandons Hoffmann after he engages in a bloody duel with her wealthy suitor Schlemil (James Capobianco...
...often missed by those who do not hail from my home state. The Cheesehead label, for instance, originated as a scornful put-down by tourists. The sponge-plastic cheese hats worn by Packer fans are an example of Wisconsinites' one-upping those who would mock the state. CARL F. HOFFMAN Cleveland Heights, Ohio
...names adorning the full-page letter in the International Herald Tribune guaranteed attention: Dustin Hoffman, Goldie Hawn, Larry King, Gore Vidal. Others, like Michael Marcus, Terry Semel, Sherry Lansing, Casey Silver and John Calley, may be less familiar, but in Hollywood they are just as famous and considerably more powerful as top executives at five of the major studios--MGM, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment...
...tougher new stance is expected to emphasize Germany?s violation of Scientology members? religious freedom. This shift follows a public controversy touched off when Hollywood celebrities took up the cause of movie star Scientologists like Tom Cruise and John Travolota. In full-page newspaper ads last week, Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Stone and a host of other entertainers angrily compared the discrimination against Scientologists to Germany?s anti-semitic persecutions in the 1930s, a comparison that itself drew outraged criticism from Americans who felt it trivialized the Holocaust. For their part, German authorities claim the church is a profit-oriented enterprise...
...Dustin Hoffman isn't satisfied with Tootsie. The movie was fine, but his share of the profits was not--so he is suing Columbia Pictures for more than $1.5 million. He claims he was supposed to get 25% of the gross profits after the movie earned $130 million, but that when Tootsie was sold to TV, the studio did some fancy financial footwork to avoid paying Hoffman...