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Assistant Dean of Freshmen Philip A. Bean issued a rare warning to first-years last night to be on the lookout for suspicious people in the wake of yesterday's incidents...
...Philip Seymour Hoffman knows how to make you wince. Remember his Scotty, the hapless gofer who desperately lunged to kiss porn star Dirk Diggler in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights? Or his wrenching portrayal of Allen, the obscene phone caller in Todd Solondz's Happiness? Now Joel Schumacher's Flawless brings us Rusty, a transsexual who befriends a homophobic stroke victim played by Robert De Niro. It's a typically gutsy performance that tightropes between drag-queen camp and the pathos of a man who believes he's the butt of a biological practical joke...
What keeps moviegoers watching is, well, Hoffman himself, embodying these down-and-outers with a skill and conviction that are swiftly making him Hollywood's most unlikely leading man since that other Hoffman, Dustin, stammered through The Graduate the year Philip was born. By year's end the 32-year-old actor will appear not only in Flawless, but also in two of this Oscar season's most anticipated offerings: as a compassionate nurse in Anderson's Magnolia and as an expatriate blueblood in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley...
...Niro plays Walt Koontz, an almost parodistically macho security guard, who is felled by a stroke as he tries to prevent a robbery in his New York City apartment building. As part of his therapy he requires singing lessons to help him remobilize his frozen vocal cords. Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman), his transvestite neighbor, is recruited to tutor him, while we settle down to await their inevitable bonding...
Through a cigarette-smoke-turned-dollar-sign link, the Web site shows that a fraction of the money you spend on Entemann's, Altoids, Philadelphia cream cheese, Jell-O or any Kraft or Miller product makes its way up the corporate system to the parent company, Philip Morris. Maybe such diversification should be lauded, not boycotted, but the fact that Philip Morris has been exploiting its connections to Kraft to get its name on public-service (or self-service?) spots during televised weekend sporting events might make you reconsider how those alliances function and for whom. The same could easily...