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...Olympic Trials. The Harvard win fulfilled a five year-old promise made by the Olympic eight’s future coxswain, Paul Hoffman ’68, who taped a Mexico travel poster on the Newell Boathouse locker room on his very day as a freshman in 1963. Hoffman??s ability to stir the Harvard varsity even as a freshman proved quite the augur: he was almost expelled from the 1968 Games the night before the men’s crew final for apparent complicity in the “Black Power” protest U.S. track stars...
...film that one begins to suspect Forster is attempting to distract you from the thin, weak narrative. The trick backfires, however, as the film never quite coheres, due in large part to its unjustified cinematic bells and whistles. The truly endearing quirks are the more organic ones, like Dustin Hoffman??s constant barefootedness, or Thompson’s enchantingly disgusting way of putting out her cigarettes.Despite all these flaws, the movie does succeed as a black comedy. Eiffel describes it at one point as a story about the “looming certainty of death...
Bottom Line: Even thought it may be hard for you to forget Hoffman??s stunning performance in “Capote,” don’t neglect this valuable iteration...
...also a firm adult who keeps the petulant Capote under control. Chris Cooper’s Alvin Dewey strikes the right balance of a character that both chooses to help Capote and to resent his presence. But as every good Oscar-tracker knows, this movie is Philip Seymour Hoffman??s to win or lose.To portray a man whose daily life was practically a caricature—a persona of who he wanted to be—is far from easy. Anyone who takes on the high-pitched tones of Capote should be, presumably, relegated to parody or mere...
Whether the iconoclasm of the beat writers is consistent with shoplifting is a different matter. Lamphier notes that the store sells plenty of other books that are considered to be anti-establishment, but that none of these—not even Abbie Hoffman??s Steal This Book—are shoplifted as frequently as the works of Bukowski, Burroughs and Kerouac...