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- <text id=89TT1421>
- <title>
- May 29, 1989: Dusting Off The Bard
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 29, 1989 China In Turmoil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 93
- Dusting Off the Bard
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Jeannie Park
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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