DR JRand56, I'm sorry about your Dustin Hoffman feelings; I've always liked him as an actor, and in the several times I've actually been in his company - once in Drama Book Shop, several times when he was rehearsing DEATH OF A SALESMAN, and I helped his production company with his research on MERCHANT OF VENICE - I've found to be intensely shy, intensely kind, very charming, and sly. The cold, unemotional Peter Hall production of MERCHANT also featured Twiggy's husband Leigh Lawson, Nathaniel Parker, Michael Siberry and Ben Browder, and I thought Dustin was quite wonderful. Someday, I hope I'll get a chance to tell you in person about the behavior of the various and sundry people involved in the DEATH OF A SALESMAN revival.
In the movie, "The Holiday" that I saw yesterday, Kate Winslet's character meets Eli Wallach and he gives her a list of 15 or so wonderful movies that she MUST watch. She and Jack Black go to the video store to get some of them and Jack (who plays a composer) starts picking up movies and sings their theme songs/music. Anyway, he picks up "Tootsie" and starts singing the song and says what a great song it is and then the camera cuts to Dustin Hoffman at the video store, watching all of this, then it cuts back to Jack and Kate. It was just a simple cameo and it really was a cute scene.
