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...This was an inside job - a story that could have been written only by a press agent. In the early 40s, Lehman had ground out flackery for the noted press agent Irving Hoffman, who was close to Winchell. A-brim with fascination-repulsion for the Broadway milieu, Lehman wrote a long story about a columnist and a press agent. He sold it to Cosmopolitan. But before the issue hit the stands, Hoffman was leaked (what else?) the story and felt betrayed, not just for himself but what he saw as calumny toward the powerful columnist. To Lehman, the complaint must...
...fight against terrorism? It has been reported that former Clinton special prosecutor Kenneth Starr has asked the question aloud while speculating that as many as five U.S. Supreme Court justices would find torture constitutional in certain circumstances. No forceful denials by any justice have been heard publicly. Bruce Hoffman, an analyst with the Rand Corporation, asks the torture question aloud in the January edition of the Atlantic Monthly, citing a movie about French tactics in Algeria and tactics used in Sri Lanka. President George W. Bush has formulated a new military tribunal to try terrorists that winks at due process...
...reservations about Dawson, Dawson is allowed to develop in response. This is similar to the character dynamic in Rain Man—because the audience empathizes with Tom Cruise’s character, the growth of Dustin Hoffman’s character (stemming from the Cruise-Hoffman conflict) is facile...
...teenage wife and partner in crime. No social critic could express with more eloquence or economy the plight of the white-trash couple Rebecca Gilman chronicles in her deadpan, slice-of-lowlife drama. This 1997 play, having its New York premiere in a fine production directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and starring Anna Paquin, is a stunner...
Penn will lose 18 starters to graduation this off-season including Hoffman, Ryan and wide out Rob Milanese, but Penn still has a plethora of young players waiting to fill the gaps and keep the Quakers competitive next season...