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...describes. And Harold, whose lack of an inner life is his most distinctive feature and saving grace, suddenly is rudderless. "It's not schizophrenia," he patiently explains to a shrink he visits. "It's just a voice talking in my head." He also seeks advice from Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), an English professor who helps Harold locate the source of the voice: that of reclusive novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), whose current project is a book, about an I.R.S. agent named Harold Crick, called Death and Taxes. Harold fears that when she completes the novel, he'll die. Which...
...fact contracting them. No actual acting required here (unlike, say, Jim Carrey's turn in the Kaufman film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), just the occasional slim smile under existential pressure and the radiating of a dim niceness. Ferrell also intermittently channels the numerological obsessions of Hoffman's character from Rain Man. Remind me: did that film win the big... Oscar? The Academy campaign starts Nov. 10, at a theater near...
DIED. Robert Hoffman, 59, sharp-witted former Coca-Cola executive and philanthropist who in 1969, along with two fellow Harvard students, co-founded the pioneering satirical magazine National Lampoon; of leukemia; in Dallas. The magazine, an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon, took wry, sometimes outrageous jabs at the rich and famous. In a photo essay it once posited that Richard Nixon, then serving his first term in office, was in fact dead...
...practically instinctive. Since Sept. 11, 2001, we have conditioned ourselves to spike every triumph in the struggle against terrorism with a shot of anxiety. Try as we might to secure the perimeter, we walk in the shadow of risk. "This is the story of terrorist threats," says Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism analyst at the Rand Corp. "We close up one set of vulnerabilities, and they attempt to exploit another...
...Around 1971 two movies appeared (including the Fred Baker documentary Lenny Bruce Without Tears) and two New York plays (including Julian Barry'sLenny). In 1974 Bob Fosse's highly praised movie version of Lenny, with Dustin Hoffman in the title role, came out, as did a fat, contentious biography by Albert Goldman and Lawrence Schiller, Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! My friend Gary Carey wrote an excellent book, the 1975 Lenny, Janis & Jimi, about three charismatic performers who died of drug overdoses. (Even in that sad showbiz trend, Lenny was first.) A few years later, Bob Dylan released the ballad...