Lenny: Canceled by Courts

Dustin Hoffman. Photo: United Artists In 2004, Comedy Central put together a list of the 100 greatest standup comedians of all time. Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Lenny Bruce made…

Midnight Cowboy: A Buck in New York

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: United Artists When John Schlesinger went to Hollywood in the late 1960s, he had already made a career for himself as a thoroughly British…

Rain Man: Escaping a Bubble

Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: MGM 1988 and 1989 were awkward years for the Academy Awards. It's not like there weren't any brilliant movies released, it's just that the…

Tootsie: Dressed to Kill

Sydney Pollack and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: Columbia In the late 1990s, I was studying English in college when one of our teachers organized a reading of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance…

The Holiday 

Amanda and Iris (Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet) agree to change homes over Christmas; in Surrey, England Amanda runs into the charming Graham (Jude Law), and in L.A. Iris socializes with…