Theater
March, 1969
Before he became a superstar (see page 23), Dustin Hoffman was an off-Broadway character actor of enormous energy, freshness and potential. From his imaginative brain tumbled crackpot Cockneys, hunchbacked Nazi queers and fidgety old editors. The Graduate added another dimension to his sizable talent: He could play not just grotesques and tragicomic heroes but even someone a little like himself. As Jimmy Shine, his first starring role on Broadway, Hoffman is sort of an ungraduate, a dislocated,...
