What Dustin Hoffman Learned from Bob Fosse, Gene Hackman, and Kobe Bryant
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
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4.4 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Graduate. Midnight Cowboy. Lenny. That's just the beginning of Dustin Hoffman's legendary Hollywood career. Over the last five decades, he's stretched and contorted himself into dozens of defining roles, earning recognition as one of the most talented actors in cinema history. Hoffman tells host Alec Baldwin that he savors each new opportunity like it's the first, and recalls his salad days when he was mis-cast, underestimated, and, on at least one notable occasion, sick on a co-star's shoe.
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| 1:00.0 | On the best podcast ever with Raven and Miranda, join Raven Simone and her partner Miranda Mayday as they and celebrity guests like Demi Lovato and Megan Trainor engage in unusual conversations. |
| 1:11.5 | Every episode will spin a wheel of random words from things like animosity to something like Zodiac and whatever it lands on. |
| 1:18.0 | That's what we're gonna talk about for around an hour. |
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| 1:31.0 | This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing, my chance to talk with artists, policymakers and performers. |
| 1:45.0 | To hear their stories, what inspires their creations, what decisions change their careers, what relationships influence their work. |
| 1:53.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:56.0 | This week we're doing something different. |
| 1:58.0 | A couple of months back I had the great honor of talking with Dustin Hoffman as part of the Turner Classic Movie Film Festival in Hollywood. |
| 2:06.0 | At the festival we screen some of the greatest films of all time and much of Dustin Hoffman's work fits that description. |
| 2:14.0 | We selected Lenny, the 1974 film in which Hoffman portrays the groundbreaking but troubled comedian and social critic Lenny Bruce, who had died eight years prior of a drug overdose while battling ongoing obscenity charges. |
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