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...This week at Manhattan's South Street Theater, she gets to do her first musical comedy, an off-Broadway show called One Man Band. Williams, 22, plays several female figments of the imagination of the young hero, and she sings and dances "wonderfully," reports Director Jack (The Elephant Man) Hofsiss. So bring on the critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1985 | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...ROOF (Showtime). Jessica Lange was a sizzling Maggie and Rip Torn an offbeat Big Daddy in this lively and well-directed (by Jack Hofsiss) classic. TV's finest posthumous tribute to Tennessee Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Best of 1984: Video | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Otherwise, Director Jack Hofsiss (who staged The Elephant Man) has done little more than transfer the play cleanly to the small screen and keep our eyes riveted on the performers. In this case, that is enough. Though Tommy Lee Jones, as Brick, lacks the brooding charisma of Paul Newman in the 1958 movie version, he provides a rare sight: a Brick who actually looks and talks like the ex-football player he is supposed to be. (Jones was an all-Ivy, all-East offensive guard at Harvard in the 1960s.) Kim Stanley (who played Maggie in the 1958 London production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Maggie the Cat Is Alive! | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...Children) and Terrence McNally (Bad Habits). The directors are Jack Hofsiss (The Elephant Man), Jeff Bleckner (Sticks and Bones), and Film Maker James Ivory (The Europeans). The cast features several of America's strong actors. No matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Lost Souls | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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