Word: mias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mary and John? The ad announcing the new production says it in ideographs: Rosemary's baby carriage perched atop Mrs. Robinson's knee. Mia Farrow, 23, and Dustin Hoffman, 31. The wandering waif and the victim of the middle class. Mrs. Sinatra and Mr. Acne. Novelist Flannery O'Connor put it another way: "Everything that rises must converge." The casting together of the two fastest-rising performers in the business was inevitable?it always is. But it once took half a career to manage the box-office mergers of Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn...
Wallace Stevens once wrote that a community of originals is not a community. But each year brings more originals, more actresses like Mia Farrow, who asks: "What does it mean to be a star today? The only real value it has is in being offered more and better parts." And Dustin Hoffman, who says, "I've always had this fantasy?every actor has, I guess?that when I made it, I'd be able to do whatever I wanted." Up in the Hollywood hills, the superstars may grumble at the youngsters who have turned their backs on the old values...
...breathe the new freedom; both have opted for the small apartment over the big house, the East over the West, Both feel that though there may be New York and New York, and Chicago and Chicago, there is only one Los Angeles. "I'm not connected with it," says Mia, who was born there. To Dustin, who was raised there, "there's this great emphasis on the external: the automobile you drive, the house you live in. The day The Graduate was finished shooting, I flew back to New York. I just couldn't wait to get back...
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...
...distance between Mia and Dustin was apparent during the first few days of location shooting for John & Mary. Between interminable rehearsals and takes at an East Side "singles" eatery called Maxwell's Plum, Hoffman hied himself off to mumble inconsequentially with the bit players and extras clustered around the bar. Mia sat tensely at the table that was the focus of the sequence, fiddling with a fork, making conversation with two other actors, and once breaking into a high, put-on Southern accent. The few times that Hoffman lingered at the table to make a time-killing joke, he addressed...