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...doubt that Cruise is a nice guy, but he always plays Tom Cruise. It's been his co-stars or the subject matter that has drawn me to his films. If you want to do a piece on a real actor, interview Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Hopkins or any number of other actors who excel at playing characters other than themselves. ROBERT E. ALLEN Gold Beach...
...20th century; in New York City. In a 60-year theater career, Whitehead mounted premier productions of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending (1957) and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms (1952), along with the 1984 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which starred Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. DIED. DOBRI DZHUROV, 86, reformist communist general who participated in the coup that overthrew Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov in 1989, bringing democracy to the former Soviet satellite; in Sofia. Dzhurov was Bulgarian Defense Minister for 28 years before becoming a lawmaker in 1990. DIED. J. CARTER BROWN...
...came out of a classroom to find one his teachers lying in the school hallway. "I felt his pulse and tried to talk to him," says Vater, "but he wasn't there anymore. You know blood from TV, and you just can't believe this is real." Denise Hoffman, 15, thought the three loud bangs she heard meant construction workers had dropped something. "Suddenly out of a room, a masked person appeared," she recalls. "Then he opened the door to another room and shot the teacher...
This makes Cassie an unusual heroine in these reductive days. "Some female leads are really male leads," says Murder by Numbers producer Susan Hoffman. "For a while in action scripts, it was as if they just changed the name from Robert to Roberta. The question is: Can there be scripts that have all the dynamics, the strengths and insecurities, of a woman?...There's still a way to go in the writing of these characters. What we're really missing is more female writers...
...Irving Hoffman might not have been so peeved if Lehman hadn't borrowed the Steve Dallas subplot from an infamous episode in the lives of Winchell and his daughter Walda. (Walda Winchell - how's that for ego extension?) To judge from Neil Gabler's account in his excellent biography, "Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity," Bill Cahn was no apple-cheeked beacon of cool jazz and high ethics. He was a hustler who had done time for vagrancy and petty larceny, was busted for going AWOL during the War and was discharged after being diagnosed with severe hysteria...