Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monthly piece for New York, the magazine he helped start after the World Journal Tribune folded. But mostly he will write fiction, which some of his meaner critics claim he's been doing all along anyway. It's touch and go whether the world of letters will shine brighter because Breslin is there, but it's a certainty that newspapers will seem greyer without...
...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...
...Youth Fare will diminish the humanity of airports. Scenes of haggard youths cradling green bills in their hands will forever disappear. At night, the fluorescent lights will shine on empty seats...
...JIMMY SHINE. Playwright Murray Schisgal is lucky to have Dustin Hoffman's ingratiating stage personality working for him in this play-which is somewhat like a book from which the text has been excised and only the footnotes published...
...anti-star occasionally flashes star temperament. Donald Driver, director of Jimmy Shine, remembers that "Dustin cut his finger on opening night in Baltimore. Long after it had healed, he insisted that the stage manager announce to the audience that Mr. Hoffman was appearing with a cut finger. It was a blatant bid for public sympathy." It also appears that Dustin never became too big to pick up small change. Jimmy Shine Producer Zev Bufman calls him "a hard bargainer who held us up for half the profits on the $1.00 souvenir programs because we didn't clear material about...