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Keeping the Devil Waiting

If Sidney Lumet isn’t one of the first directors you might think to put on a top 10 list of the great American filmmakers, it’s probably because his control over a movie is less obvious than, say, Martin Scorsese’s. But the list of classic films on his resumé is staggering. Beginning with his first feature, the Oscar-nominated Twelve Angry Men, in 1957, Lumet went on to make Fail-Safe, The Pawnbroker, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, Murder on the Orient Express, Prince of the City, The Verdict, Daniel, The Morning After, Running on Empty and Family Business, to name only the best known.



Mr. Hoffman's Wonder Emporium

For an actor who was such an integral part of the era when American movies “grew up” in the late 1960s, as the star of films like The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy, Dustin Hoffman has always had an essentially childlike nature. Even when he shows up 10 minutes late and a bit grumpy for a press conference, you look at him as a petulant kid who needs to be cheered up by asking him what’s in that bag he’s toting. (It’s a copy of the new translation of War and Peace.)





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