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...Like To Catch a Thief, Mike Nichols’ The Graduate, of 1967, was a superlative film based on a mediocre novel....
...Fontana also seems a shade more desperate and demented than Dustin Hoffman did when playing the same role in the film....
...Sequins, glitter, dresses that require strapless bras and bare arms, the prospect of looking like Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie or an X Factor contestant from the early rounds . . . these can all be scary things...
...With his next film, The Graduate (1968), it became equally clear that Nichols could “find” an actor, in this case Dustin Hoffman; and not just find him but cast him against type to create a film and character...
...I told Mike Nichols [the director], ‘I just don’t think I’m right for this.’ ” Even after Nichols persuaded him to take the role, the responses at early screenings were poor....
...His second feature gave the world Dustin Hoffman, a smash-hit Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack and Anne Bancroft (in reality only a few years older than Hoffman) as Mrs Robinson, the prototype “cougar”. 3....
...along the way, projects that eluded him: he confirms something that I had assumed to be a bizarre internet-fuelled rumour that before Stallone was on board, he was indeed set to direct First Blood with Dustin...
...Step forward, Dustin Hoffman. Truly it has been said, or would be in Hollywood, “Nobody knows anything.”...
...“I did an enormous amount of travelling as Dustin and I wanted to keep our family together....
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