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wikiHow to Install Windows XP on Ubuntu with VirtualBox
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a program that allows you to create operating systems on virtual machines, i.e. to use Windows programs on Linux. If a program doesn't work under WINE, for example, it will probably work in its native environment, Windows. Using VirtualBox would be a better and easier alternative than installing a separate partition for Windows on a Linux machine.
1Install Oracle VM VirtualBox. VirtualBox acts as a "computer" on which to host operating systems.
2Extract an ISO image from a Windows XP CD you have, IMGburn and k3b have this functionality.
3Click the "New" button (the first of the four below the menu).
4Use the Wizard to create a virtual partition for Windows XP. Windows XP is the default OS selected, so all you have to do is name it. (Windows XP, for example, is a good name).
5Choose the amount of RAM to be allocated to this OS (when it's in use). Don't allocate too much because there will be less RAM for your host system to run, which will crash your entire system.
6Create a new hard disk since you probably don't have one already. Click Next to Continue. You will be taken through the Create New Virtual Disk wizard, which will allow you to choose hard disk size, dynamically expanding/fixed size, etc.
7Review the summary it provides at the end and verify the information is correct. After that, the new Virtual Machine will be created.
8Mount the ISO image by clicking on the Settings button. Click the Storage section on the left hand side of the window. Click on the Empty CD medium in the Storage Tree.
9Open the Virtual Media Manager, depicted with an icon like a folder with an up arrow, next to CD/DVD Device under "Attributes".
10Add the disk image file by clicking Add, then choosing the location of the Windows XP ISO image. Select it with "Select", then press OK in the Settings Window. Launch the VirtualBox by pressing "Start".
11Install Windows. You should have the Windows installer running now. Remember that since you have not yet install the Guest Additions, you will have to press your Host key (normally Right-Ctrl)
12Install Guest Additions. While the machine is running, under the "Devices" menu, click "Install Guest Additions", which will launch a setup wizard inside Windows XP. Now you will have OS mouse integration, so you won't have to press the host key to switch between your host and guest. You also can copy and paste between the two operating systems. Now that you have Windows XP installed, you can install programs you use.
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- Add filters in the USB settings to allow USB devices to work.
- See VirtualBox's website for documentation, updates, and support.
- There are more settings in the Settings menu you so you can customize your machine.
- Some programs (such as games) might not have 3D capability due to VirtualBox's limitations. These might warrant a separate partition for Windows.
- Not all operating systems are supported by VirtualBox. Such operating systems do not have Guest Additions for desirable features.
- Some settings, such as EFI support or IO APIC may not be compatible with Windows XP, so don't enable them. It will crash Windows and you will have to reinstall.
- Beware of 3D games if you don't enable 3D acceleration or your graphics card doesn't support it. VirtualBox has limitations in 3D capability and may crash (even your system) if you use a game without such support.
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Hoffman in 1968
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Dustin Lee Hoffman August 8, 1937 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor | ||
Years active | 1960–present | ||
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Anne Byrne (1969–80) Lisa Hoffman (1980–present) |
Children | 6 including Jake Hoffman | ||
Dustin Lee Hoffman[2] (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.[3]
He first drew critical praise for the play Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock, the title character in The Graduate. Since then, Hoffman's career has largely been focused on cinema, with sporadic returns to television and the stage. His subsequent notable films include Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, Marathon Man, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Hook and Wag the Dog.
Hoffman has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning two (for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man), thirteen Golden Globes, winning six (including an honorary one) and has won four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie Award, and an Emmy Award. Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012.
Hoffman had his directorial debut in 2012, with Quartet.
- 1 Early life
2 Career
- 2.1 Early work
- 2.2 1960s: The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, John and Mary
- 2.3 1970s: Lenny, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Kramer vs. Kramer
- 2.4 1980s: Tootsie, Death of a Salesman, Rain Man, Family Business
- 2.5 1990s: Dick Tracy, Hook, Outbreak, Mad City, Wag the Dog
- 2.6 2000s: Finding Neverland, Meet the Fockers, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
- 2.7 2010s: Barney's Version, Kung Fu Panda, Little Fockers, Quartet
- 3 Personal life
- 4 Filmography and awards
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Early life
Hoffman was born on August 8, 1937 in Los Angeles,[2] the second son of Lillian (née Gold) and Harry Hoffman. His father worked as a prop supervisor (set decorator) at Columbia Pictures before becoming a furniture salesman.[4] Hoffman was named after stage and silent screen actor Dustin Farnum. His older brother, Ronald, is a lawyer and economist. Hoffman is Jewish, from an Ashkenazi family of immigrants from Ukraine and Iași (Romania).[5][6] His upbringing was non-religious; he has said, "I don't have any memory of celebrating holidays growing up that were Jewish", and that he had "realized" he was Jewish at around age 10.[7][8][9] He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955 and enrolled at Santa Monica College with the intention of studying medicine. Hoffman left after a year to join the Pasadena Playhouse,[10] although when he told his family about his career goal, his Aunt Pearl warned him "You can't be an actor. You are not good-looking enough."[11][12] He also took classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.
Early work
Hoffman initially hoped to become a classical pianist, having studied piano during much of his youth and in college. While at Santa Monica College, he also took an acting class, which he assumed would be easy, and "caught the acting bug." He recalls: "I just was not gifted in music. I did not have an ear."[13] Now an aspiring actor, he spent the next ten years doing odd jobs, being unemployed, and struggling to get any available acting roles.
His first acting role was at the Pasadena Playhouse, alongside future Academy Award-winner, Gene Hackman.[14] After two years there, Hackman headed for New York City, with Hoffman soon following. Hoffman, Hackman and Robert Duvall lived together in the 1960s, all three of them focused on finding acting jobs.[15][16] Hackman remembers, "The idea that any of us would do well in films simply didn't occur to us. We just wanted to work."[13] During this period, Hoffman got occasional television bit parts, including commercials but, needing income, he briefly left acting to teach.
In 1960, Hoffman was cast in a role in an Off-Broadway production and followed with a walk-on role in a Broadway production in 1961. Hoffman then studied at Actors Studio and became a dedicated method actor. Sidney W. Pink, a producer and 3D-movie pioneer, discovered him in one of his off-Broadway roles and cast him in Madigan's Millions. Through the early and mid-1960s, Hoffman made appearances in television shows and movies, including Naked City, The Defenders and Hallmark Hall of Fame. His first critical success was in the play Eh?, by Henry Livings, which had its US premiere at the Circle in the Square Downtown on October 16, 1966.
Hoffman made his film debut in The Tiger Makes Out in 1967, alongside Eli Wallach. In 1967, immediately after wrapping up principal filming on The Tiger Makes Out, Hoffman flew from New York City to Fargo, North Dakota, where he directed productions of William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw and William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life for the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre. The $1,000 he received for the eight-week contract was all he had to hold him over until the funds from the movie materialized.[17]
1960s: The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, John and Mary
In 1967, director Mike Nichols cast Hoffman in The Graduate (1967), his first major role, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for his performance. Hoffman played the character of Benjamin Braddock, who returns to his wealthy parents' home in California after graduating from college. Confused about what to do with his life, he is seduced into having an affair with Mrs. Robinson, an alcoholic and a neurotic, and the wife of his father's business partner.
Although Life magazine joked that "if Dustin Hoffman's face were his fortune, he'd be committed to a life of poverty",[12] The Graduate was a gigantic box-office hit for Embassy Pictures, making Hoffman a major new star at the same time. The film, mostly due to Hoffman's acting, received near unanimous good reviews. Time magazine called Hoffman "a symbol of youth" who represented "a new breed of actors." The film's screenwriter, Buck Henry, notes that Hoffman's character made conventional good looks no longer necessary on screen:
A whole generation changed its idea of what guys should look like. . . I think Dustin's physical being brought a sort of social and visual change, in the same way people first thought of Bogart. They called him ugly.[18]
Hoffman biographer Jeff Lenburg adds that "newspapers across the country were deluged with thousands of letters from fans," with one example published in the New York Times: "I identified with Ben...I thought of him as a spiritual brother. He was confused about his future and about his place in the world, as I am. It's a film one digs, rather than understands intellectually."[19]:35
Turner Classic Movies critic Rob Nixon notes that Hoffman represented "a new generation of actors." He credits Hoffman with breaking "the mold of the traditional movie star and brought to their roles a new candor, ethnicity, and eagerness to dive deep into complex, even unlikable characters."[20] Nixon expands on the significance of the film to Hoffman's career: "In The Graduate, he created a lasting resonance as Ben Braddock that made him an overnight sensation and set him on the road to becoming one of our biggest stars and most respected actors.[20]"
Hoffman, however, mostly credits director Mike Nichols for taking a great risk in giving him, a relatively unknown, the starring role: "I don't know of another instance of a director at the height of his powers who would take a chance and cast someone like me in that part. It took tremendous courage."[18]
Critic Sam Kashner observed strong similarities between Hoffman's character and that of Nichols when he previously acted with Elaine May in the comedy team of Nichols and May. "Just close your eyes and you'll hear a Mike Nichols—Elaine May routine in any number of scenes."[18][21] Buck Henry also noticed that "Dustin picked up all these Nichols habits, which he used in the character. Those little noises he makes are straight from Mike," he says.[18]
After completing The Graduate, Hoffman turned down most of the film roles offered to him, preferring to go back to New York and continue performing in live theater:
I was a theater person. That's how my friends were, too, Gene Hackman and Bobby Duvall. I wasn't going to be a movie star. I wasn't going to sell out. We wanted to be really good actors. I told them, 'I'm going out to make this movie. Don't worry, I'm coming right back.'[22]
After completing The Graduate, Hoffman left California and returned to Broadway to appear in the title role of the musical, Jimmy Shine. Hoffman won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.
He was then offered the lead in Midnight Cowboy (1969), which he accepted partly to prove many critics were wrong about his acting range and the variety of characters he could portray. As author and critic Peter Biskind explains, "it was the very contrast between his preppy character in The Graduate, and Ratso Rizzo" that appealed to Hoffman. "I had become troubled," recalls Hoffman, "by the reviews that I read of The Graduate, that I was not a character actor, which I like to think of myself as. It hurt me. Some of the stuff in the press was brutal."[22] Critics assumed that director Mike Nichols got lucky by finding a typical actor with average acting ability to play the part of Benjamin Braddock.
John Schlesinger, who would direct Midnight Cowboy and was seeking lead actors, held that same impression. Hoffman's performance as a button-down college graduate and track star was so convincing to Schlesinger, "he seemed unable to comprehend the fact that he was acting," notes Biskind.[22] To help the director, whom he had never met, overcome that false impression, Hoffman met him in Times Square dressed as a homeless person, wearing a dirty raincoat, his hair slicked back and with an unshaven face. Schlesinger was sold, admitting, "I've only seen you in the context of The Graduate, but you'll do quite well."[22]
Midnight Cowboy, premiered in theaters across the United States in May 1969. For his acting, Hoffman received his second Oscar nomination and the film won the Best Picture. In 1994, this film was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.[23][24][25] Biskind considers Hoffman's acting a major accomplishment:
Midnight Cowboy makes us a gift of one of the landmark performances of movie history: Dustin Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo, with Jon Voight's Joe Buck a close second. From a cesspool of dark, foul, even taboo material, . . . it rescues a true humanism that need not hide its name.[22]
Also in 1969, Hoffman co-starred with Mia Farrow in John and Mary. He received a 1970 BAFTA Award as Best Actor, although the film received mixed reviews.[26] He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor.
1970s: Lenny, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Kramer vs. Kramer
This was followed by his role in Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971), Straw Dogs (also 1971), and Papillon (1973).
Hoffman next starred in Lenny (1974), for which he was again nominated for Best Actor. Lenny was based on the life of stand-up comedian, Lenny Bruce, who died at age 40, and was notable for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. Expectations were high that Hoffman would win an Oscar for his portrayal, especially after his similar role in Midnight Cowboy. Film critic Katharine Lowry speculates that director Bob Fosse "never gave him a chance" to go far enough into developing the character. "We never understand what, besides the drugs he injected, made him tick like a time bomb," she says.[27]
However, notes author Paul Gardner, "directing Lenny, his most ambitious project, exhausted Fosse emotionally and physically. It turned his life inside out," with shooting days often lasting 10 to 12 hours:"[28]
The Lenny Bruce project, based on Julian Barry's play, had gone through two studios and three scripts, and was a problem child, like Lenny himself. But Fosse wanted to do it, and he wanted Dustin Hoffman.[28]
Hoffman initially turned the part down: "I didn't think the script was strong enough and I wasn't sure I was the one to play the role." While considering the part, he read Lenny Bruce's autobiography and looked at films with Bruce performing stand-up to live audiences. "I began to feel an affinity with him, a realization that there was a lot of Lenny Bruce in me. My wife felt it too."[29] "I realized that I'd have to make use of my own spontaneity, because he was so spontaneous. And I admired his guts. . . . That intimacy is what an actor tries to get. . . . It occurred to me that if I had known him, I would have wanted us to be friends. . . . and he was a provocateur, and I love to provoke."[29] Movie critic Judith Crist gave Hoffman credit for the ultimate success of the film:
What is important is that Bruce's routines are so artfully reconstructed, the juice of his creativity so carefully strained, that the claim to genius is justified. And for that Dustin Hoffman deserves full credit, vanishing into the Bruce persona to simply stunning effectiveness, . . . Hoffman captures the restlessness, the velocity of a man's mouth straining to keep pace with a jet-propelled intelligence . . . "[30]
Lenny was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.[31]
All the President's Men (1976) was made less than two years after the Watergate scandal, and starred Hoffman and Robert Redford as the real life journalists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, respectively. Based on actual events, Hoffman and Redford play Washington Post reporters who uncover a break-in at the Watergate Hotel and end up investigating a political scandal that reaches all the way to the presidency. The film, as earlier ones, had Hoffman take on a dramatically different character than his previous one (as Lenny Bruce). Author James Morrison compares the two roles: "As Lenny Bruce in Lenny (1974), Hoffman plays a martyr to the cause of establishment oppression, while in All the President's Men, he plays a reporter exposing presidential malfeasance."[32]
Vincent Canby of the New York Times described the film as "a spellbinding detective story." "The strength of the movie", he added, was "the virtually day-to-day record of the way Bernstein and Woodward conducted their investigations."[33] The characters portrayed by Hoffman and Redford shared the rank of #27 Hero on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list, while Entertainment Weekly ranked All the President's Men as one of the 25 "Powerful Political Thrillers".[34]
Hoffman next starred in Marathon Man (1976), a film based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, opposite Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider.[35] Its director, John Schlesinger also directed Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy in 1969. Described as "Schlesinger's thriller," by author Gene D. Phillips, Hoffman plays the hero, Babe Levy, a part-time long-distance runner and graduate student, who suddenly finds himself being pursued by a fugitive Nazi.[36] To put himself in the mindset of someone under severe emotional distress, rather than simply acting, Hoffman didn't sleep for days at a time and let his body become disheveled and unhealthy.[37]
Goldman describes his inspiration for the novel: "What if someone close to you was something totally different from what you thought? In the story, Hoffman thinks his brother (Roy Scheider) is a businessman where the reality is that the man is a spy, who has been involved with the Nazi, Szell."[38] However, Hoffman remembers a serious disagreement he had with Goldman, who also wrote the screenplay, about how the story ends:
I was called on, as the character, to fire point-blank at the Laurence Olivier character, Dr. Szell, and kill him in that last scene. And I said that I couldn't do it. Goldman was quite upset about it, because first of all, how dare I? He wrote the book. "Your job isn't to rewrite — your job is to play it as written." . . . it got nasty. I said, "Go hire someone else."
I remember Goldman saying: "Why can't you do this? Are you such a Jew?" I said, "No, but I won't play a Jew who cold-bloodedly kills another human being." . . . And that's important to me, that I didn't shoot him in the end. Being a Jew is not losing your humanity and not losing your soul.[9]
Hoffman's next roles were less successful. He opted out of directing Straight Time (1978), but starred as a thief. His next film, Michael Apted's Agatha (1979), was with Vanessa Redgrave as Agatha Christie.
Hoffman next starred in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) co-starring Meryl Streep and directed by Robert Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son. Hoffman won his first Academy Award, and the film also received the Best Picture honor, plus the awards for Best Supporting Actress (Streep) and Best Director.
The film required Hoffman to change his attitude, from being a "desensitized advertising art director" into becoming a "responsive and concerned daddy" after his wife (Streep) walks out on him and their six-year-old son, Billy. Hoffman, during the making of the movie, was also going through his own divorce after a ten-year first marriage. Hoffman says, "Giving myself permission not only to be present but to be a father was a kind of epiphany for me at that time, that I could get to through my work. . . . I got closer to being a father by playing a father. That's very painful to say."[29] The role also reminded him of his own love of children in general:
Children are more interesting than anything. I walk my younger child to school every day and I don't like leaving the school. I would like to sit down on those little chairs, at those little tables, and play. And a child's love is like a drug. To have a child throw his arms about you—it's instant stoned. People talk about the rush heroin gives you: I would say children give you that rush.[29]
Benton's directing is praised by Hoffman, and credits him for inspiring the emotional level supporting many scenes: "Perfect directors make you emotional. On Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton made me emotional. He was pulling so hard for me. When I didn't think I could do a scene again I'd say, "I can't give it to you, I haven't got it." Then he'd just get this look on his face and roll the camera and I'd say, "Okay, this is yours." That's what he made you want to do for him—to give him one."[39]
1980s: Tootsie, Death of a Salesman, Rain Man, Family Business
In Tootsie (1982), Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera. His co-star was Jessica Lange. Tootsie earned ten Academy Award nominations, including Hoffman's fifth nomination.
Under direction by Sydney Pollack, Hoffman's role demanded "a steady bombardment of opposites—edgy then funny, romantic then realistic, soft then quivering."[40] To film critic David Denby, Hoffman's character "embodies vulnerability and drive in perfect proportion. He has the knack of making everything he does seem perilous, and so audiences feel protective of him and root for him."[41] Hoffman's acting was made more difficult than necessary, however, as he was not given the rehearsal time Pollock promised:
I like to be very prepared, and I feel that the success or failure of a film is many times determined before you start principal photography. I wanted rehearsal very much. I was promised two weeks and was grieved that I didn't get it. We also followed the risky course of starting to shoot with a screenplay that wasn't completed.[42]
In 1984, Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman[43] He reprised his role in a TV movie of the same name, for which he won the 1985 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor along with a Golden Globe.
Hoffman first read the play at age 16, but today considers the story much like his own: "It was a blueprint of my family. I was the loser, the flunky, and my brother, a high-school varsity football player, was Biff."[13] Author Marie Brenner notes that Hoffman "has been obsessed with the play" throughout his career: "For years he has wanted to be Willy Loman; when he discovered that Arthur Miller was his neighbor in Connecticut, they began to talk about it in earnest."[44] For Hoffman, the story also left a deep emotional impact from the time he first read it:
I read that play, and I was just destroyed by it. It was like finding out something terrible about my family. I just shook. I felt like my family's privacy had been invaded. I couldn't even talk about it for weeks.[44]
Hoffman rehearsed for three weeks with the play's original star, [44] Brenner adds that Hoffman "has been training like a boxer for the role that so exhausted Cobb he had to be replaced after four months."[44] The original play was directed by Elia Kazan, who Hoffman considers "the perfect director, the best there ever was. . . . God, I would have done anything to have worked with Kazan."[44]
Hoffman's worst film failure was Elaine May's Ishtar (1987), co-starring Warren Beatty, who also produced it. Hoffman and Beatty play two down-and-out singer-songwriters who've gone to Morocco for a nightclub gig and get caught up in foreign intrigue. Much of the movie was filmed in Africa.
The film faced severe production problems, mostly related to its $55 million cost, and received overwhelmingly negative reviews. However, Hoffman and Beatty liked the film's final cut and tried to defend it.[45][46] Hoffman and Beatty were unaffected by the flop, and Ishtar became a cult film. Quentin Tarantino, for one, has called it one of his favorite movies, partly due to the humorous lyrics of the songs written by Paul Williams.[47] Hoffman describes why he loves the film:
The thing I love about Ishtar, - and I love it with all of its flaws - is that it has a statement to make. And that is: It is far, far better to spend a life being second rate in something that you're passionate about, then to spend a life being first-rate at that which you are not passionate about. I thought that was worth making a movie about. These guys want to be Simon & Garfunkel, but they have no talent at all. They're middle-aged guys, and at the end of the movie they wind up singing "That's Amore" at a Holiday Inn in Morocco. It's fair. It's fair to make a movie about that.[47]
Next came director Barry Levinson's Rain Man (1988), where Hoffman starred as an autistic savant, opposite Tom Cruise. Levinson, Hoffman and Cruise worked for two years on the film, and Hoffman's performance gained him his second Academy Award. Behind Hoffman's motivation for doing the film, he says, "Deep inside, Rain Man is about how autistic we all are." In preparation for the part, Hoffman spent two years befriending autistic people, which included taking them bowling and to fast food restaurants. "It fed my obsession," he said.[48]
Hoffman had worked at the New York Psychiatric Institute, affiliated with Columbia University, when he was 21. "It was a great experience for me," he states. "All my life I had wanted to get inside a prison or a mental hospital. . . . I wanted to get inside where behavior, human behavior, was so exposed. All the things the rest of us were feeling and stopping up were coming out of these people."[29] He used that experience to help him develop the character of Raymond Babbitt, a high-functioning autistic savant, yet a person who critic David Denby describes as "a strangely shuttered genius."[49] Hoffman created certain character traits for Raymond, notes Denby: "Hoffman, looking suddenly older and smaller, has developed a small shuffling walk for Raymond, with shoulder bent. His eyes don't make contact with anyone else's, and he flattens his voice to a dry nasal bark."[49]
Rain Man won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role for Hoffman, and Best Director for Barry Levinson. Having worked closely with Hoffman for two years on filming, Levinson offers some opinions about his skill as an actor:
You can't define Dustin Hoffman, because he's unique. He's one of a kind and he's not one character. There is no Dustin Hoffman. He is many, many people. . . . He can do comedy and he can do drama. He has an enormous range, and yet he's still Dustin somewhere in there. He's intelligent and has a great sense of how to connect with people, because he's very interesting. On a day-to-day basis, he's like an actor who's making his first movie, with the enthusiasm and energy to want to make things happen and try things and experiment.[50]
After Rain Man, Hoffman appeared with Sean Connery and Matthew Broderick in Family Business (1989), directed by Sidney Lumet. The story centers on the estrangement between Vito (Hoffman), a middle-age man trying to succeed in a legitimate business, and his "hopelessly corrupt but charming father," Jesse (Connery). Critics were mostly not impressed with the story, although the individual performances were praised, especially Connery's.[51]
Because of their different acting styles and nationalities, some industry writers thought Connery and Hoffman might not work well together as close family members. "To the surprise of many," note Connery biographers Lee Pfeiffer and Lisa Philip, "the two superstars developed an immediate rapport and chemistry that translates onto the screen." And Lumet remembered: "Sean is extremely disciplined and Dustin is very improvisational, all over the place with his lines. I didn't know where it would end up, but Sean met Dustin improvisation for improvisation, and a great deal of richness and humor came out of it."[51]
1990s: Dick Tracy, Hook, Outbreak, Mad City, Wag the Dog
In 1991, Hoffman voiced substitute teacher Mr. Bergstrom in The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Substitute", under the pseudonym Sam Etic. As a reference to this episode, during the episode featuring the Itchy & Scratchy movie, Lisa claims that Dustin Hoffman had a cameo in that movie but didn't use his real name.
Throughout the 1990s, Hoffman appeared in many large, studio films, such as Dick Tracy (1990) (where his Ishtar co-star Beatty plays the titular character), Hero (1992) and Billy Bathgate (1991) co-starring with Nicole Kidman who was nominated for a Golden Globe). Hoffman also played the title role of Captain Hook in Steven Spielberg's Hook (also 1991), earning a Golden Globe nomination, and the narrator in Dr. Seuss Video Classics: Horton Hears a Who! (also 1992); in Hook, Hoffman's costume was so heavy that he had to wear an air-conditioned suit under it.
Hoffman played the lead role in Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland. In the film, Hoffman is a medical doctor who uncovers a newly discovered Ebola-like virus which came to the U.S. from Africa in an infected monkey. Hoffman races to stop the virus's spread and find a vaccine before it becomes a worldwide pandemic with no cure.
The movie is described by critic Roger Ebert as "one of the great scare stories of our time, the notion that deep in the uncharted rain forests, deadly diseases are lurking, and if they ever escape their jungle homes and enter the human bloodstream, there will be a new plague the likes of which we have never seen."[52] Critic David Denby credits Hoffman with giving the movie much of its thriller-like quality:
Tanks and men pour in to herd the terrified population here and there, and Dustin Hoffman, as the supersleuth Army doctor, gives such a lip-biting, anguished performance he absolves the movie of slickness. Hoffman isn't good, exactly; he's tense, edgy, and righteous, like a B-movie actor from the fifties.[53]
Following that, he appeared in the 1996 revenge-drama/legal-thriller Sleepers (1996) with Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, and Kevin Bacon.
In the mid-1990s, Hoffman starred in—and was deeply involved in the production of—David Mamet's American Buffalo (also 1996), and an early effort of film editor Kate Sanford. In 1997, Hoffman starred opposite John Travolta in the Costa Gavras film Mad City.
Hoffman gained his seventh Academy Award nomination for his performance in Wag The Dog (1997), in a role that allowed Hoffman the chance to work with both Robert De Niro and Denis Leary. The movie is a black comedy film[54] produced and directed by Barry Levinson, who also directed Hoffman in Rain Man in 1988.
The story takes place a few days before a presidential election, where a Washington, D.C. spin doctor (De Niro) distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer (Hoffman) to construct a fake war with Albania. Hoffman, as a caricature of real life producer Robert Evans, according to some, "gives the kind of wonderfully funny performance that is liable to win prizes, especially since its mixture of affection and murderous parody is so precise. Stanley (Hoffman) conducts business meetings in tennis clothes or in robe and slippers," notes critic Janet Maslin.[55]
He next appeared in another Barry Levinson film, the science fiction psychological thriller, Sphere (1998), opposite Sharon Stone.
In 1999, Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award and recalls the emotional impact that receiving the award had on him:
There was this reel of pictures, me playing all these different roles. I had my first—and only, thank God—panic attack. What followed was depression. . . . It had to do with a central core in me, which was that I never felt I deserved success.[13]
2000s: Finding Neverland, Meet the Fockers, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Hoffman next appeared in Moonlight Mile (2002), followed by Confidence (2003) opposite Edward Burns, Andy García and Rachel Weisz. Hoffman finally had a chance to work with Gene Hackman in Gary Fleder's Runaway Jury (also 2003), an adaptation of John Grisham's bestselling novel.
Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J. M. Barrie historical fantasia Finding Neverland (2004), costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. In director David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees (also 2004), Hoffman appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as an existential detective team member.
Seven years after his nomination for Wag the Dog, Hoffman got a second opportunity to perform again with Robert De Niro, co-starring with Barbra Streisand and Ben Stiller in the 2004 comedy Meet the Fockers, a sequel to Meet the Parents (2000). Hoffman won the 2005 MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance. In 2005, he voiced a horse in Racing Stripes, and appeared in cameo roles in Andy García's The Lost City and on the final episode of HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm's fifth season. Hoffman appeared in Stranger than Fiction (2006), played the perfumer Giuseppe Baldini in Tom Tykwer's film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (also 2006), and had a cameo in the same year's The Holiday.
In 2007, he was featured in an advertising campaign for Australian telecommunications company Telstra's Next G network,[56] appeared in the 50 Cent video "Follow My Lead" as a psychiatrist, and played the title character in the family film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. In 2008, although he was reluctant to perform in an animated feature film (Although he had previously performed voices in a version of The Point! and in an episode of The Simpsons), Hoffman had a prominent role as Shifu in the acclaimed film Kung Fu Panda, which was praised in part for his comedic chemistry with Jack Black (whom he tutored in acting for an important scene) and his character's poignantly complex relationship with the story's villain. He later won the Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature for Kung Fu Panda and has continued into the role in the franchise's subsequent filmed productions outside of the franchise's television series. He next voiced Roscuro in The Tale of Despereaux.
As the title character in Joel Hopkins notes that Hoffman was a perfectionist and self-critical: "He often wanted to try things stripped down, because less is sometimes more. He worries about every little detail."[13]
2010s: Barney's Version, Kung Fu Panda, Little Fockers, Quartet
He appeared in Little Fockers, the critically panned yet hugely commercially successful 2010 sequel to Meet the Fockers.[57] In 2011, Hoffman reprised his role as Shifu in the commercially and critically successful animated film Kung Fu Panda 2.
Hoffman starred in the HBO horse-racing drama Luck, as a man involved in bookmaking and casino operations. Luck was cancelled in March 2012 after three horses died on set.[58] Hoffman also directed Quartet, a BBC Films comedy starring Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay.[59]
In 2012, Hoffman's audiobook recording of Jerzy Kosinski's Being There (novel) was released at Audible.com. His performance was nominated for a 2013 Audie Award for Best Solo Narration - Male.
Personal life
Hoffman married Anne Byrne in May 1969.[60] Hoffman adopted Karina (b. 1966), Byrne's child from a previous marriage, and with Byrne had daughter Jenna (born October 15, 1970). In 1970, Hoffman and Byrne were living in the Weathermen, when a bomb was accidentally detonated in the townhouse's basement, killing three people. In the 2002 documentary The Weather Underground, Hoffman can be seen standing in the street during the aftermath of the explosion.[61] The couple divorced in 1980.
He married businesswoman Lisa Hoffman (née Gottsegen) in October 1980; they have four children – Jacob Edward (born March 20, 1981), Rebecca Lillian (b. March 17, 1983), Maxwell Geoffrey (born August 30, 1984), and Alexandra Lydia (born October 27, 1987). Hoffman also has two grandchildren. In an interview, he said that all of his children from his second marriage had bar or bat mitzvahs and that he is a more observant Jew now than when he was younger; he has also lamented that he is not fluent in Hebrew.[62]
A political liberal, Hoffman has long supported the Democratic Party and Ralph Nader.[63] In 1997, he was one of a number of Hollywood stars and executives to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl protesting the treatment of Scientologists in Germany, which was published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune.[64]
In 2009, he received the freedom of the Italian city Ascoli Piceno for being there during 1972 to shoot the movie Alfredo, Alfredo by Pietro Germi, where he played the role of Alfredo Sbisà.
Hoffman is a lifelong fan of Archie Comics and owns a copy of every single issue ever printed.[65]
Dustin Hoffman received Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, with the following commendation: "Dustin Hoffman's unyielding commitment to the wide variety of roles he plays has made him one of the most versatile and iconoclastic actors of this or any other generation".[66]
Hoffman was successfully treated for cancer in 2013.[67]
Filmography and awards
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- ^ "The Moonchild and the Fifth Beatle". Time Magazine. February 7, 1969. Retrieved April 4, 2009.
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- ^ a b Zeitlin, David (November 24, 1967). "The Graduate". Life. p. 111. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Just Dustin", AARP Magazine, March/April 2009
- ^ "The 50-Year Hoffman-Hackman History". The New York Times. October 12, 2003. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
- ^ "Celebrity Roommates". Xfinity Entertainment. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
- ^ Stevenson, Laura. "Robert Duvall, Hollywood's No. 1 Second Lead, Breaks for Starlight".
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- ^ a b c d Kasher, Sam. Vanity Fair, March 2008
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff. Dustin Hoffman: Hollywood's Antihero, St. Martin's Press (1983)
- ^ a b The Graduate, Turner Classic Movies
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- ^ Films Selected to The National Film Registry, 1989-2010, Library of Congress
- ^ trailerMidnight Cowboy on YouTube
- ^ winning Best PictureMidnight Cowboy on YouTube
- ^ Awards @ IMDb.
- ^ Lowry, Katharine. "Talk on the Wild Side", Texas Monthly, Jan. 1975
- ^ a b Gardner, Paul. "Bob Fosse Off His Toes", New York magazine, Dec. 16, 1974
- ^ a b c d e Meryman, Richard. "Interview with Dustin Hoffman," Playboy, April 1975
- ^ Crist, Judith. "Bruce Unspruced", New York magazine, Nov. 18, 1974
- ^ official trailerLenny on YouTube
- ^ Morrison, James. Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s, Rutgers University Press (2010) p. 4
- ^ Noble, William. Presidential Power on Trial: From Watergate to All the President's Men, Enslow Publishers (2009) p. 99
- ^ "Democracy 'n' Action: 25 Powerful Political Thrillers".
- ^ trailerMarathon Man on YouTube
- ^ Phillips, Gene D. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema, Lehigh University Press (1999) p. 236
- ^ Cerritos, Marco. "Method of Madness: Why Do Actors Insist on Method Acting?", First Showing, Sept. 13, 2010
- ^ Goldman, William. Marathon Man: A Novel, Open Road Media (1974)
- ^ Orth, Maureen. "Benton vs. Benton", New York magazine, Dec. 24, 1979
- ^ Orange Coast magazine, April 1983. pp. 136-137
- ^ Denby, David. New York magazine, Dec. 27, 1982
- ^ "Dialogue on Film", interview with Dustin Hoffman. American Film Institute, April 1983
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- ^ a b c d e Brenner, Marie. "Rebirth of a Salesman", New York magazine, March 26, 1984. pp. 32-36
- ^ "A Conversation with Dustin Hoffman". NPR. Retrieved February 10, 2007.
- ^ "Warren Pieces". Entertainment Weekly. December 20, 1991. Retrieved February 10, 2007.
- ^ a b "Mr. Beaks Interviews Dustin Hoffman!", Ishtarthemovie.com, Feb. 19, 2009
- ^ Spy magazine, March–April 1995, p. 54
- ^ a b Denby, David. New York magazine, Jan. 2, 1989 pp. 45-46
- ^ Emery, Robert J. The Directors: Take Three, vol 3, "Interview with Barry Levinson," Skyhorse Publishing (2003) p. 217
- ^ a b Pfeiffer, Lee, and Philip, Lisa. The Films of Sean Connery, Citadel Press (2001) p. 231
- ^ Ebert, Roger (March 10, 1995). "Outbreak".
- ^ Denby, David. "The Lukewarm Zone", New York magazine, March 20, 1995
^ Turan, Kenneth (December 24, 1997). Wag the Dog' Is a Comedy With Some Real Bite to It"'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
A gloriously cyncial black comedy that functions as a wicked smart satire on the interlocking world of politics and show business...
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- ^ O'Sullivan, Matt. "Rap for Telstra over ad promise", Sydney Morning Herald, August 27, 2007.
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Knockout terror Hendricks faces St-Pierre having stayed true to himself
The three-hour drive to from Ada, Okla., to Pantego, Texas, was not easy for Johny Hendricks and his father. Johny's mother sat silently in the backseat, while Hendricks' father, Keven, divided his attention between the road and a heated cell phone conversation he was having with his son's college wrestling coach. Hendricks, who faces UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre (24-2) on Saturday at UFC 167 in Las Vegas, was about to make a life-changing decision -- one his father was vehemently against.
A two-time state wrestling runner-up himself, Keven Hendricks had competed through his freshman year in college, but admits he'd lacked the discipline to take his career any further. He wanted his sons to do better.
"I gave both my sons two options: they could wrestle until they finished high school or they could wrestle until they finished high school," said Keven. "I made that decision for them because the discipline and character that wrestling builds in a young man or young woman -- there's no other sport out there that matches it."
Johny had started wrestling at age four. His father coached him for a time, before rooting him on from the bleachers as Johny's athleticism and determination propelled him up the ranks. The Olympics was Keven's utlimate goal for his son. "There is no greater competition than the Olympics," he'd say.
By 2007, Hendricks was a starting senior at the champion-making factory that is Oklahoma State University, right on track to represent his country as early as the 2008 Games and exactly where his father wanted him to be. Now Johny was walking away from all of it.
"It was 19, 20 years of my life -- it was either go to the Olympics or step away and do something else," said Johny. "I wanted to see what else the world had to offer. I felt like I didn't have the motivation for wrestling anymore."
And it had all come down to that drive to Pantego. One hundred and seventy-three miles. That's all the time Keven Hendricks had to convince his son that he was making a big mistake and get the car turned around. Holding back tears, Keven said everything he could think of right up to the moment they reached the door of Velociti Fitness, home of Team Takedown, a management company that funds the grooming of top collegiate wrestlers into professional fighters.
"I didn't want to wake up every day dreading what I was doing," said Hendricks. "I wanted to give 110 percent and I couldn't do that in wrestling anymore. I told my dad that I might not be good at this sport, but I wanted to see if I could [do it]."
As it turns out, the 30-year-old Hendricks (15-1) can do it. His bout on Saturday will be the culmination of a five-and-a-half year career, where Hendricks has morphed from one-dimensional wrestler into a one-punch knockout terror.
These days, Hendricks' father, a horse and cattle rancher on 20 acres in Tahlequah, Okla., doesn't mind that his son left the wrestling world for another. He's attended every one of Johny's fights, and though it took some time, he now grasps just how much the sport means to his son.
"I went to Johny's first two years of fights, and I'll tell you, I wasn't really into it," said Keven, "but then I started going to his practices and seeing his dedication, the same dedication he had in wrestling that he brought right into MMA. I just had a lot of respect for him."
"He saw that I was happy, that I was enjoying what I did," said Hendricks.
Hendricks can't say the same for his entire wrestling career. The four-time NCAA All-America had an impressive collegiate career (103-12), but not a fulfilling one. Deep in wrestling country, the industrious Hendricks became a hero among his Oklahoma State classmates, but public enemy No. 1 for every Big 10 school's cheering section.
"He was a winner and that's the nature of sports," said Johny's OSU coach, John Smith. "He was a great competitor and a great leader of a national-championship team. He'd come with great passion every day and just loved to compete. It's rare that you don't have an issue or two with an athlete, but Johny was the whole package. I wish I had a whole room of him."
Smith, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and one of a handful of legendary collegiate coaches, said Hendricks' was also an unpredictable talent.
"You never knew what you were going to get with Johny out on the mat, but it was always pretty good," said Smith. "He could take you down with single legs. He could throw you with a hip lock. He could cradle you from anywhere. He could do things sometimes, where you'd just shake your head and think, 'Did I just see that?'"
Not everyone shared Smith's enthusiasm for Hendricks.
"The fans didn't like me and everywhere I went, there was a constant battle between me and them," said Hendricks, who won NCAA championships at 165 pounds in 2005 and 2006. "If I wrestled you, I made sure you never wanted to wrestle me again. I wanted to break my opponents every time."
The hyper-competitive Hendricks took a multi-layered approach to his wrestling. He pushed his opponents out of bounds to fluster them and smiled at them mid-match to incite an emotional reaction. (Sometimes he'd get a physical one when opponents hauled off and slugged.) It was an effective strategy, but the visiting crowds hated his success. They smeared Johny in online wrestling forums. At some meets, opposing spectators spit on his father and cussed him out. Sometimes, they threw objects at Johny's family.
"The fans got so excited when I lost, that I started to wonder why I'd go to the Olympics to represent people like this," said Hendricks. "That's how I felt in that moment."
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In 2007, just a few months shy of graduation, Hendricks quit college and signed with Team Takedown, an exclusive management company started by Ted Ehrhardt and two longtime business partners. Team Takedown financially supports its athletes (and their families) during the developmental phase in exchange for a 50-50 split of what the fighter makes in purses, sponsorship and other revenue streams.
"They get the housing allowance, health and dental insurance, car allowance, food allowance, an allowance for training, training camps and partners," said Ehrhardt. "We split everything 50-50, but they don't pay us back the health insurance or all the other money we fronted to them."
For instance, Hendricks' weekly allowance allows him to visit any gym he'd like to or fly in any training partner he desires for a particular fight. Hendricks gives up only half his purse in the end. There are no side jobs, no worrying about how he'll put food on his family's table or a roof over their heads. Hendricks' job is simply to train and win.
"Who wouldn't want to get paid to train and that's all you have to focus on? Look how my fighting has developed in the last five years," Hendricks said. "I can train twice a day and go as hard as I want to because I know I have nothing to do in-between. I am truly blessed to be in a situation like this."
Hendricks, one of five former collegiate wrestlers currently in the program, has progressed the farthest of all the Team Takedown fighters.
In December 2011, Hendricks earned $128,000 for his spectacular 12-second knockout win over Jon Fitch at UFC 141. Hendricks followed that up with victories over Josh Koscheck and Martin Kampmann in 2012, and a title eliminator bout against Carlos Condit in March. Though none of those purses were made public by the commissions that oversaw these bouts, UFC contracts pay incrementally higher for each win. Hendricks was also awarded an additional $70,000 performance bonus for knocking out Kampmann in 46 seconds and another $50,000 for earning the fight of the night against Condit.
"When they start making 200 grand a year, we start breaking even," said Ehrhardt, "but you have to remember, it could take four or five years, like with Johny, for us to get there, so we're still in the hole. But if he gets that belt, everything changes. Then you start making millions a fight."
The relationship has already started to produce the dividends Ehrhardt is talking about. In October, Hendricks signed a two-year, incentive-based sponsorship deal with Reebok. The mid-six-figure deal is guaranteed whether Hendricks wins or loses Saturday night, said Ehrhardt.
Back in 2007, part of Team Takedown's core investment went to acclimating Hendricks into the multi-disciplined sport. That June, Hendricks traveled to Las Vegas to train for a week at Xtreme Couture, a talent-teeming MMA gym launched by OSU alumni, four-time Olympic Greco Roman wrestling alternate, and UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture.
Hendricks' father and Ehrhardt accompanied Johny, only to watch him get knocked out cold in his first sparring session against UFC veteran Phil Baroni. Keven stayed up with his son all night, as Johny groggily asked what had happened to him over and over (Fighters rarely have memories of getting knocked out).
"He told me [that night] that he was ready to cash it in and head back to OSU to take an assistant coaching job, and I was as happy as I could be," recalls Keven. "The next morning, we're having a meeting with Ted and I'm thinking he's going to say, 'Boys, I'm done. ' Instead, he goes, 'Boys, where do I sign at? The worst thing that could ever happen to me just happened. I got knocked out and I lived through it. Let's do it.'"
The Christian-raised Hendricks stayed with Xtreme Couture for three years, training alongside UFC peers like Kampmann, Mike Pyle, Jay Hieron, Vitor Belfort and others who regularly migrated in and out of the high-profile camp. Hendricks said he left in 2010 with the birth of his first daughter.
"In Vegas, it took me three years to meet one of my neighbors," said the father of three daughters, including a four-month-old newborn. "It took me six months to meet six of my neighbors in Texas. That's the difference. I know if I let my daughters outside, they're safe. It's a greater sense of community."
Hendricks' time in Las Vegas was well spent while it lasted. He shored up his holes under the instruction of K-1 kickboxing champions and boxing coaches, and the southpaw discovered that he had some mean hands in the process. (Though Keven likens his son to the dancing gopher from Caddyshack in that first sparring session against Baroni, it turns out that both of Johny's grandfathers were Golden Gloves boxers). Johny debuted as a pro after only three months of training and won that bout by technical knockout. Half of his 15 wins have come by his hands and Hendricks has never been stopped in a fight himself (His lone defeat came by decision to Rick Story in December 2010.)
"The times I don't try to hit my opponents too hard are the times I knock them out," said Hendricks. "Now I just go in there and have fun with it. I let my body do what it needs to do, so it can adapt second by second."
It's Hendrick''s last two knockouts, both delivered in a combined 58 seconds, that boosted the bearded marauder's stock significantly. After his victory over Kampmann in late 2012, Hendricks was all but guaranteed a title shot against St-Pierre, only to be passed over by the more marketable Nick Diaz instead, who was coming off a year-long marijuana suspension and a title loss to former interim champ Condit. Hendricks was naturally upset, but took the snub in stride.
"Maybe there was something else I needed to learn," he said. "I had to take a step back to see what that might be."
Some fans might have liked it better had Hendricks been more vocal when the UFC passed him over, but those who know him best said he can be as easygoing and carefree out of the cage as he is intense inside of it.
"I didn't want that type of attention. I don't want to be the loudmouth," said Hendricks "When I get in the Octagon, that's when my inner self comes out. It's two different people."
Hendricks said he's only recently found the support the wrestling community once denied him. He can look back on those times and is actually grateful the fans held nothing back. "I can honestly say that their frankness led me to something better and I thank them for that," Hendricks said.
And the father that tried to talk him out of MMA, who knew what was best for his son as surely as the sun sets, is only to happy to admit that great destinies are ultimately made from one's free will and choice.
"We set out goals for ourselves and our children, and things come up," said Keven. "If I could go back, I don't think that I would have been so adamant about the Olympics, but on the other hand, I think Johny had something to prove. He did exactly what he set out to do and he's stayed true to himself throughout. How can you not be proud of that?"


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well, the backing is that lavendar and blue floral that you see above. You can also see just a bit of the pink quilted bedspread showing through a whole in the back of the quilt. Further up the back of the quilt, the floral fabric is in shreds but at this time, I don't plan to repair it but will keep it just as it is. At some point, I may "stabalize the backing" ...... like on some cold winter night when I need the warmth of a lap-quilt! LOL!
This baby quilt is just exquisitively pieced and hand-quilted. It is just lovely.
Unfortunately, it's got some stains and it is faded and worn but it still has charm!
And even this baby quilt, simple as it is, it also has charm..........
It's not really a quilt because the maker stitched her top and then tied it with yarn, but I love how she chose to use just the two colors and then used purple, lavendar and yellow yarn for the ties. Of the three quilts, this one is in the best condition.
I took these quilt photos on Saturday afternoon because I knew we were to get rain on Sunday. In the photo below, you can see the area where I have strung my clothesline between two trees. The quilt you see there is the one I'll be sharing next Monday.
You can also see that the trees are still quite green but the leaves are beginning to turn yellow up the right side of the tree in the photo above. We haven't had any rain for almost two weeks here so the rain we got on Sunday was a welcoming soft rain that watered gardens and crops. A soft drizzle was falling when I took this photo below.........
It was taken after church, about the same time as the one I took last Sunday. I thought there might be more change in color but things are still really green. Off to the right in the photo above is the house you see below...........
and those bushes are turning a beautiful red! I love the house in the background and it's for sale! I think it would make a great quilt shop. What do you think?
Today, I'll be getting out my fall decorations. I started doing some decorating last week, but got sidetracked. Kaiser the Wonder Beagle was sick all day Friday so I felt like I was caring for a sick toddler. He was fine by Saturday and then I was tired.......but not sick. I was glad because I didn't want to miss the Henderson Fire Department Pork Chop Dinner.
I dearly love it when someone else cooks. :-) And it's also nice that someone else cleans up!
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Trust is a funny thing. It is something that is highly valued, but cannot be bought. It must be earned, but cannot be sold. Its lifespan is as long as you care to maintain it.
During my 25+ years in the retail industry, I have worked very hard to build and maintain the trust of my customers. How? By doing what I say I will do, by maintaining confidentiality with the information shared with me, and by acting in my customers' best interests. Why? Because it makes good business sense, of course. But ultimately, because a trustworthy reputation is one of a few things that is and will be remembered.
What does this have to do with retailers, brands and products? Well, you work extremely hard to establish a reputation with a group of people -- your customers -- who come to the places you have built – your stores -- to get the products you have become known for providing. A simple word comes to mind in maintaining a trusted relationship: fairness. The trust your customers have developed with you comes from the idea that they expect a carefully edited set of products at a fair price. They will give you their hard earned dollars for a fairly valued product.
Brands also develop trust with their customers. The "brand promise" is ultimately the trust consumers have placed in a brand they like. Consumers who are loyal to a brand will trust that the next product introduced under that brand will fulfill the brand promise.
The more frequently you fulfill your promise, the more trusted you become. Given how easy it is for a customer to walk across the mall to your competitor, or price shop your products online, your competitive advantage is largely derived from how well you develop a relationship based on trust.
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How can you improve in earning the trust and consequent purchase dollars of your customers?
One direct way is by meeting expectations consistently. Setting and fulfilling expectations is the easiest way to build trust both in a relationship and through a product. Here are a few examples:
- Retailers Forever 21, H&M and now Uniqlo have developed fashion-forward, value-oriented products that their customers recognize and desire. It is not just simply that their products are less expensive. These retailers consistently deliver on a promise of quality, and this approach has delivered strong returns for their businesses.
- Costco delivers a great product set at a highly communicated 13% margin (tremendous value delivery), along with a consistent experience.
- McDonald's, Coke and Marriott all set and consistently meet expectations. Regardless of where you visit a McDonald's or a Marriott, you will (almost always) experience a similar level of service and a similar product.
- Sometimes retailers and brands delight their customers with exceptional experiences. Examples include Polo's Mansion, Louis Vuitton's newest handbag, and Wal-Mart's superior fulfillment ability which ensures they will always have the product you are looking for, in-stock.
How do you know what someone expects of you? One way is to visit as many of your customers as you can and ask them. Open, honest dialogue is invigorating and informative. You learn so much, even if you are already meeting their expectations.
Walk the floors, visit stores, survey or simply get out and explore. One of my favorite movies is Brubaker. It is an 80's film in which Robert Redford plays a newly hired warden who goes in as a prisoner to understand what is wrong with the system. A current show on CBS is Undercover Boss,in which a CEO goes in undercover to learn the true story of what is happening within his or her own company. In almost every case, it is a true discovery session. I suspect that is the case for all of us, but the discovery comes at the cost of time.