European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile Dustin hoffmans Little big men Are memorable by Bob Thomas associated press he limped along the Concrete Underbelly of new Yorks time a miss happened con Man who made us Many movies he put on a a wig and a wicked smile and won our ratio or Benjamin full angst and lust or troubled daddy Dustin Hoffman has created a Rich array of roles in his acting and he added new Lustre to his career by playing the tragic Willy Lorna in the critically acclaimed Broadway run of Arthur Millers pulitzer prize winning death of a his Brown hair is just now growing Back after having been shaved for part of the aging process As Willy this is not my new Punk he rubbing his hand Over his Brus like with his second and their three Hoffman recently paid a Brief visit to the West coast his native i grew up in you he when he was born 48 years ago in los his father worked As a prop Man at Harry cohns Columbia Harry hoffmans most memorable achievement was helping to copy the Senate chamber for Frank Capras Smith goes to starring Jimmy in Hoffman went to new York to study acting and struggled for seven i was in an unemployed he Small roles off Broadway led to bigger and reviewers began citing his unique that led to being cast As Benjamin Braddock in the one of the most dazzling debuts in film for an Academy award winning actor Kramer 1979 whose screen presence seems to please so Hoffman has made Only two films in the past five i dont know he pondered in an i was amazed to realize it had been three years Between Kramer Kramer and and now it has been two years since Tootsie almost part of that has been my own you can get Hurt making the wrong especially in today movie in the old a Star made four pictures a year and hoped that one would be a now an actor can really be damaged by one or two i like to he theres nothing More unnerving to me than a i Wake up every morning wondering if in Ever going to work and then there is the fact that i have three children at Home 10 2 years and 4 you can see Why i like to go to his first two pictures were the graduate and Midnight the vehicle for ratio i thought it was always going to be that he it i never found another part As Good As ratio except one flew Over the cuckoos and Jack Nicholson got that those kinds of parts just dont come Dustin Hoffman has taken his time in finding the roles he considers the answer is to develop them that what i did with Tootsie hats what ill have to continue for the first time in his Hes doing three movies in a Hes up for a written by Elaine May and produced by Warren a project with Martin then another with Mike immediately after Tootsie he went into death of a the actor was amazed when his Connecticut neighbor and Tennis made the having just played soap opera Queen Dorothy Hoffman replied what part do you want me to play Linda Hoffman told Miller he was too Young to play Willy but Arthur said Lee Cobb was 37 when he originated the i but Cobb was heavy and big i am neither heavy or Arthur i wrote the part for a Skinny Little 1 must say i was Salesman was the first play i Ever my brother gave me a Book of collected and it was the first one in the i walked around crying for weeks i would go into a Corner and Start to Hoffman could easily identify with the play because his father had once been a furniture Salesman and there were two boys in the the difference was that i was the younger the Black my brother was More like an a student and drama critics gave him rave in Washington and two new York Hoffman played to filled houses for 250 performances More times than did hoffmans performance will not be the production of death of a Salesman was filmed in new York last Spring and will appear As a lbs special in 20 stripes Magazine july 7305