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...Eminem has a "fascination" with the movie Rain Man. He considers the Dustin Hoffman character a kindred spirit: whereas Hoffman boasted a facility with numbers, he is the rapper-savant. "This is all I know how to do," he says. "I can get in my car and drive, but I don't know how to get places." He sells himself a bit short: in addition to being a devoted father, he's a talented graphic artist, and the book contains a series of impressive sketches depicting the superheroes of rap (Tupac Shakur, 50 Cent, himself) and comic books (the Incredible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eminem: The Way I Am | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...first is Schenectady, the working-class city near Albany where Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a theater director, lives with his artist wife Adele (Catherine Keener) and their young daughter Olive (Amy Goldstein). Caden, who's had a critical success staging Death of a Salesman with young actors in the middle-age roles, is himself a premature old man; he hears mortality gargling at him everywhere. In the first scene, he wakes to a radio talk-show report about how the coming of autumn is a harbinger of death; from then on, Caden's life is one long fall. Reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Synecdoche: Charlie Kaufman's Dangerous Mind | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...which need only create an alternate world, populate it with memorable characters, and be true to its internal logic, however skewed. Kaufman has constructed a most devious puzzle, a labyrinth of an endangered mind. Yet it's one that - thanks in large part to a superb cast, led by Hoffman's unsparing, sympathetic, towering performance - should delight viewers who both work the movie out and surrender to its spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Synecdoche: Charlie Kaufman's Dangerous Mind | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...MOVIE Synecdoche, New York A theater director (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has a Really Big Idea for a play, an obsession that upends his life and leads to madness. Charlie Kaufman's comedy about artistic ambition is challenging, invigorating and, if you go with it, brilliant fun. It's like a suicidal Fellini film--a downer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...went from 27-something to 25-something, so I was pleased with that.”Fellow junior Robert Kenney crossed the line at 26:12.9, good for a 48th individual finish. Sophomores Tommy Hutchison—who is also a Crimson sports comper—and Michael Hoffman finish just 0.1 seconds apart from one another—Hutchison at 26:57.8 and Hoffman at 26:57.9—for the 96 and 97 spots out of the 186-man field. Sophomore Brian Hill rounded out the Crimson runners with a 28:19.5 finish, good enough for 137th...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Personal Records Galore in Split Meets | 10/19/2008 | See Source »

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