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...Dell, the hero who plays the adaptation game from birth to death, she elicits a performance that is laugh-and letter-perfect. Expressions cross his face like clouds scudding across the sky: hope, bewilderment, apprehension, chagrin, humiliation, and wild fleeting moments of joy. It is the year of the loser, on and off Broadway: Dustin Hoffman in Jimmy Shine, Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam (see below). Gabriel Dell is the most endearing loser of them all. The rest of the cast act with infinite finesse to make Adaptation coruscatingly funny...
Together, Mia and Dustin represent a coincidence of other myths: the airborne colleen and the earthbound Jew, Peter Pan and Peter Schlemiel, the miserable winner and the happy loser. Like most myths, they contain an indissoluble grain of truth. Mia Farrow has been cowering from show-business success like a cornered rabbit. Hoffman has been swimming backward in it like a lobster. To Mia, life is colored with pastels and studded with magic stones; to Hoffman, it is a black-and-white documentary. She can skip down Manhattan's Third Avenue without creating a ripple. When Hoffman is recognized...
...interviews with TIME Reporter Carey Winfrey. Hoffman's father was a furniture designer, middle-class and Jewish. His mother was a movie fan and named him after Dustin Farnum, the silent-screen cowboy (his older brother is Ronald, for Colman). The game of the name made Hoffman a loser from childhood. "I always used to wish there was another Dustin in class," he recalls. "When you're poked fun at?they used to call me 'Dustbin'?you either go inside yourself or become a clown. In seventh grade, I played Tiny Tim because I was the shortest...
...back to the Bible." Cadaco's executive vice president, Douglas Bolton, believes that "during times of national stress, there is an upsurge in quasi-religious activities." At any rate, the possibilities of additional religious games are intriguing. There might be Inquisition, for instance, in which the loser would go directly to hell and bypass purgatory. Or, in a more contemporary vein, there might be Vatican Council ("Don't Cross Ottaviani") or Encyclical ("Congratulations! You have planned your family well and are entitled to one bonus baby...
...upheaval? The losers-and some not-so-satisfied winners-had complained that Johnson's original awards were made less on merit than on the wondrous performance of old political cronies who had interests in the victorious carriers. Eastern Airlines, a loser that has already been in serious difficulties (TIME, Jan. 24), had the least political lift...