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- PEOPLE, Page 93Dusting Off the Bard
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- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Jeannie Park
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- Hath not DUSTIN HOFFMAN senses, affections, passions? He
- hath. And he hath taken them all together onto a London stage
- for a nearly sold-out summer run in The Merchant of Venice, his
- first go at Shakespeare since drama school. In applying to work
- with British director PETER HALL, Hoffman, 51, first asked to
- play Hamlet. Sorry, Dustin, he was told, you're too old. The
- role of Shylock, however, is a challenge for the two-time Oscar
- winner, a consummate perfectionist. "I'll probably find the key
- to this performance three months after we close," he admits.
- Sorry, Dustin, that's too late.
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