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Lewis pointed out that Hoffman originated the class often identified with Joseph S. Nye, but students will have to wait for the spring to figure out how, other than the trademarked Hoffman accent, the course will differ...
Hall launched the project with star vehicles: Vanessa Redgrave in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice, both of which transferred to Broadway. Now he aims at London only, ranging from the money-harried gloom of Ibsen's The Wild Duck to the haute-bourgeois sexual antics of Tartuffe. In October he returns briefly to the nonprofit R.S.C. with an All's Well That Ends Well starring Sophie Thompson, sister of Oscar winner Emma. His best evidence yet that a classic can prevail on the basis of the text itself is Lysistrata. The ancient Greek...
...title role is played by Geraldine James, who starred in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown and onstage as Portia to Hoffman's Shylock. But most of the time she and the rest of the cast wear masks, as the Greeks would have done. This helps ensure that the real star of the play is the play, which may be the most cunning blend ever of high moral purpose and low humor. Its premise is that war-weary women of Greece convene and vow to give up sex until their men give up battle. That is no small...
...Yale official, who declined to be named, said Kleinfelder turned down the job last month. Sara Hoffman, a spokesperson in Yale's sports information office, indicated that the job had been offered to a different coach this week...
...English by watching TV and "developed an accent decidedly reminiscent of Peter Falk's Columbo." Her husband has an odd habit of falling asleep in strange places -- including on a fairway during a major golf tournament as Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino teed off. And the book claims Dustin Hoffman wanted to play the computer character Mario in the movie adaptation because his kids loved the game (the movie is currently in theaters with Bob Hoskins in the lead role...