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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly everyone who has ever worked with him says the same thing, sometimes with less admiration than Jaffe. Hoffman, 42, is known in Hollywood as the archetypical difficult actor. But for all those critics Hoffman has a word of caution. "They should think twice before they rail against me," he told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "They may have done their best work with me. I'm like that clocker who is always saying, 'Come on! Come on! Come...
...leafy and comfortable exurbs of central New Jersey; her father was a pharmaceutical-company executive and her mother a graphic artist who did most of her work at home. "I didn't have what you'd call a happy childhood," insists Streep. "For one thing, I thought no one liked me . . . Actually, I'd say I had pretty good evidence. The kids would chase me up into a tree and hit my legs with sticks until they bled. Besides that, I was ugly. With my glasses and permanented hair, I looked like a mini-adult...
...prettiest thing about Meryl in those days was her singing voice. A promising coloratura soprano, she began taking lessons in New York with Voice Coach Estelle Liebling. "The first opera I went to," recalls Meryl, "was Douglas Moore's The Wings of the Dove, with Beverly Sills. It was incredible to see her onstage. Until then, I thought she was just a nice lady who had the lesson before me." One morning Meryl got up, squashed her glasses underfoot, put peroxide and lemon juice on her hair and set out to be "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout." Boys quickly...
Meryl next went to Austria to work on the TV series Holocaust. Cazale was too weak to follow her. "I wanted to go home," she says. "John was very sick and I wanted to be with him. But they just kept extending the damn thing. It was like being in prison for 2½ months." Actor Fritz Weaver shared this internment and remembers Meryl admiringly: "In Holocaust she played a woman whose lover was imprisoned in a concentration camp. Meryl must have been living it twice, in the story and in real life. But there was not one moment...
...want to leave a message, please wait for the beep because . . . um . . . I don't know . . . otherwise the thing cuts off. Thank...