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I will no longer accept anything unless the character is rich, the story important, and the director acceptable.” That’s called stardom! This new status has transformed Dustin Hoffman from just another face in the theatrical crowd to the hottest young actor of the day, and it has affected his whole family, His wife has to keep replacing the nameplate on their door because fans rip it off. I was anxious to meet the Oscaraward hopeful and find out how it feels to have three hit movies—“The Graduate,” “Midnight Cowboy,” and “John and Mary”—playing simultaneously. In his next film, “Little Big Man,”he portrays the only survivor of Custer’s Last Stand and ages from 16 to 121. When I walked into the reception room of his manager'soffice, I started to move past the other faceless individuals in the room when an arm shot forth and a pleasant voice said, “Hi, I’m Dustin Hoffman.” I hadn’t even recognized the man whose performances I had admired. Without any coaxing, Dustin launched into a discussion about himself. “I didn’t start out to be an actor,” he said. “When I was a boy, 10 Family Weekly, March 29, 1970 Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight both won acclaim for roles in “Midnight Cowboy.” 1 wanted to be a piane player. Hoffman tried college but washed out after one year at Santa Monica City College. “I got bad grades, due to disinterest and hostility on my part, I would say.” In those days, he didn’t have much confidence in himself, partly because he was slight of build. He’s only 5-feet-6 and barely hits 145 pounds. He was alsc convineéd that he wes unusually homely and considered himself an outsider. He ended upin acting “because it was the only thing I could do pain- lessly.” When hefinally ventured into the theatrical world on his own in 1958, he headed for New York “because I didn’t want to fail at home. “T never had anyreally close childhood friends,” he admits. “I can count only about half-a-dozen friends even now.Therest are acquaintances, mainly because I don’t put myself in 2 position to make new friends. I don’t dance, and I hate parties.” He methis wife, the former Anne Byrne at a laundermat. “I had already gone through my motorcycle period, wore long hair, a sheepskin vest, and rode bare-chested,” he recalled. “That was eight years ago. She was 19 and I was 24.I was really waiting for an acting job. “One day I went to this launder- Dustin and Anne had long courtship. mat, That’s where I met Anne. She was with the Philadelphia Ballet at the time. And we had quite a romance until | went to North Dakota to direct a play. After that, she got married and had a baby. “It wasn’t until three years later that I saw her picture in the paper. I wrote her a letter. It just so happened she had broken up with her husband, and I had just broken up with a girl I was going with.” They went together almost three years, most of which was a timeof struggle for Dustin. Then camethe call from Mike Nichols telling him he had the part of Benjy in “The Graduate.” “Anne and I looked at each other and got devressod,” Dustin recalled. “Tt wasn’t just that we were going to be apart for five months. We knew that our lives would be changed. An experience like that could either solidify a relationship or explode it. In our case, it fell apart at first. Now it’s wonderful!” They were married in Mayof last year. Dustin and Anne and her threeyear-old daughter Karina live quite modestly in a $400-a-month brownstone across the street from his orizinal $125-a-month GreenwichVillage apartment. His one indulgence when he came into money was a huge $700 desk which he considered worth the price since it was a “lifetime” purchase. He has no intention of forgetting his brother’s advice: “If you ever hit it big, don’t change your standard of living. If you do, you'll have to start accepting roles for the money, and then you’re not your own man.” Dustin has remained his own man. And he has remained honest with himself. He knowshis greatest talent lies in character roles, although his idea of “character roles” would differ from many others. He admits, “Playing eccentrics all the time is a copout for me. I havethis fear that if I am just myself, I’m dull.” But he never is! @ |