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Dustin Worries About His Magic
By DICK KLEINER
Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD—! N E A)-
They talk about the magic of
stardom. Dustin Hoffman is
there and he talks about the
magic, too, but it means
something different to him.
Hoffman is a star now,
probably the only star who
has been “star-ized” since
the nonstar era came along.
He has made three films--
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“The Graduate” and “Mid
night Cowboy” were huge
hits and “John and Mary”
will probably be more huge
—and he’s now shooting
something called “Little Big
Man.” More about that later.
He’s in the big money and
the big fame. And he’s bright
enough to see the problems.
“There’s a danger,” he
says. “There’s a danger of
being seduced by the magic.
There’s all the attention you
get and then there’s—well,
the magic.”
Magic?
“Yeah,” he says, and he
looks perplexed by the very
idea. “My name has magic.
Suddenly I’m magical. I
noticed it last year on
Broadway.”
He did a play there, “Jim
my Shine.” He says that he
was rehearsing and he grad
ually realized that every
body—the producer, the di
rector, everybody—was leav
ing him alone. They weren’t
making any suggestions,
they weren’t telling him
what they wanted.
“The feeling was there,”
he says, “that since it was
Dustin Hoffman, and I was
a big star, that everything 1
did would work out by itself.
And, more than that, that
even if it didn’t work out,
that the play would succeed
anyhow because my name
would be enough to insure
success.”
The magic persists.
“I keep getting scripts
sent to me,” he says. “Some
of them are obviously wrong
for me. A few are submitted
to me to direct, and I don’t
know anything about direct
ing. But it’s that magic, that
idea that my name now
means enough so that if they
just have my name, they’ll
have a success.”
Still, he worries. He’s not
as much a believer in magic
as the rest of show business.
He is a born worrier and he
always practices the art.
Ile worried all through
“The Graduate.” He wor
ried, first, that he wasn’t
right for the part. Then he
worried that, because Mike 1
Nichols was directing, the ,
picture would be a success 1
and the world would say, <
“Hoffman, you made it be- '
cause Nichols is great.” Or <
that the picture would bomb i
and the world would say, <
“Hoffman, if you can’t make
it with Nichols, you can’t
make it with anybody.”
Then he worried about the
problem of following up such
a big hit. Actually, he had
wanted to do “Midnight Cow
boy” before he had ever
heard of “The Graduate.”
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HOBBY HORSEMAN can
brave any weather from
the comfort of his home.
Nikolaus Klein of Chicago
learned the art of making
rocking horses when he was
a youth in Germany. He
also makes a variety with
wheels, so you might call
them rock ’n’ roll horses.
Isolationist
George Washington
warned this country against
alliances with foreign na
tions. In his farewell address
on Sept. 17, 1796, he wrote:
“It is our true policy to steer
clear of permanent alliances
with any portion of the for
eign world.”
But there was a seven-month
interval, between when “The
Graduate was released and
“Midnight Cowboy” started
shooting.
(And, curiously, when he
told Nichols he was going to
do “Cowboy,” the director
said, “Hey, you’ll be great
as the stud.” And Hoffman
played the other part, with
Jon Voight as the stud.)
“I’ve done well at the
movies I’ve chosen,” Hoff
man says. “It’s a combina
tion of luck and skill.”
After the “Midnight Cow
boy,” he wanted to do “Little
Big Man” next, but there
was a long wait so he sand
wiched the beautiful little
love story, “John and
Mary,” in between. Now
comes “Little Big Man,” a
wildish western, in which he
plays the 121-year-old sur
vivor of Custer’s Last Stand,
among many other things.
“But he still manages to
find a worry to worry about.
“There’s the danger,” he
says, “that I may be trying
to overreach myself. It can
happen to anybody. I’m try
ing to guard against it.”
He smiled, but there was a
worry lurking in his tired
eyes.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
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PERSONAL FINANCE
5 Ways to Save Money
On Auto Insurance
By CARLTON SMITH and
RICHARD PUTNAM PRATT
Since it is New Year’s
resolution time, how about
resolving to save some
money—on auto insurance.
There are at least five
ways to pare the cost of in
suring your mobility. With
rates constantly increasing,
you need to take advantage
of some reductions just to
stay even.
Here are some suggestions:
Increase Deductibles—The
deductible is your share of
the risk. On a SSO-deductible
collision coverage, for ex
ample, you pay the first SSO
to repair any damage. The
insurer pays the rest.
Increasing the amount of
the deductible from SSO to
SIOO will cut the premium on
a typical policy by 25 per
cent. A $2 50 deductible
should rate a reduction ap
proaching 60 per cent.
Seek Discounts — If you
drive a compact car, some
insurers will offer coverage
at a discount. This is not as
common as it once was, but
some companies continue it.
If you own two or more
cars, insure them with the
same company and ask for a
multiple-car discount. Too
many car buyers purchase
insurance where they buy
the car. Result: a different
insurer each time.
Check Classification —
Rates are based on the cars,
its drivers, where it’s used,
and how much. All of these
factors are subject to
change, some frequently. If
you have quit driving to
work, for example, your rate
should go down. It should be
reduced drastically if a
youngster leaves home.
Such changes will result in
a money-saving reclassifica
tion only if the insurer is no-
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Wednesday, December 24, 1969
Pratt Smith
tified, however.
Age Your Car— Rates are
highest on cars of the cur
rent model year. As the car
ages, the rate decreases.
Thus holding onto your car
one year longer will cut cov
erage costs significantly.
Actually, any saving on in
surance will be secondary.
The big savings will come
from letting depreciation on
the car work in your favor.
The longer you own a car,
the less it costs per year.
Consider Self-Insurance —
Under no circumstances
should you drive without
liability coverage, but you
might want to discard some
other forms of protection. If
you own a second car worth
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for instance, why insure it
against collision, vandalism,
windstorm, fire and theft?
If you drop such coverage,
you are assuming the risk,
but you are saving the pre
mium. Since the odds are
greatly in your favor, you
should be able to save more
than you lose in the long run.
One caution: Don’t let the
search for savings entice you
into scrimping on liability
coverage. Legal minimums
are seldom sufficient.
Anyway, the price of sub
stantial protection is little
higher than the marginal.
One study of auto insurance
indicates you can boost
liability coverage five-fold,
while increasing the pre
mium only 16 per cent.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
The authors are unable to answer
personally individual questions.
Questions of general interest will be
answered when possible in future
columns.
Auto emergencies
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Auto
rnobile starting trouble—battery,
starter and ignition system fail
ure—was the basis for most calls
for emergency assistance during
1968, says the American
Automobile Association.