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...addition to playing the violin. Ptashne is an avid collector of various paintings and sculptures produced by such artists as Matisse, Hoffman and Lachaise...
Andrea G. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli '96, who is also in Hoffmann's section, said that Hoffman had recently been teaching on crutches...
They may have to wait a while. In some of those countries, the Internet's infrastructure hasn't progressed much beyond the local computer bulletin-board stage. In others, particularly in Europe, strict rules limit what kind of data can be gathered about private citizens in such polling. Donna Hoffman, a Vanderbilt management professor who helped design the Nielsen survey, still ducks questions about how many people around the world use the Internet. "A lot," she answers with a laugh. "It's very big." That, for now, may have...
...very rich have different problems from the rest of us. For instance, STEVEN SPIELBERG is suing a doughnut mogul for financial harassment. Back in 1968, Denis Hoffman, who now owns Designer Donuts in Los Angeles, invested $10,000 in Spielberg's debut film Amblin. As part of the deal, Spielberg agreed to direct a film for Hoffman within the next 10 years. According to Spielberg, the director bought out the contract in 1977. Hoffman sees it differently and last May told Spielberg to direct a film for him or pony up $33 million. So Spielberg sued. Hoffman, naturally, is countersuing...
...scenes between Voight's character and homosexual johns, including a middle-aged man whom he physically assaults. But the most striking aspect of the film involves the relationship (somewhat reminiscent of Of Mice and Men) and his newfound pal in the city, a consumptive, limping Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), as each eke out life in the gutter with their eyes on the stars. The desperation of the characters' lives in the city--stealing, living in a condemned building--hits us most, while the theme of homosexuality seems considerably less controversial today...