Hoffman Thesis Statement

Florenz Ziegfeld was born on March 21, 1867 in Chicago, Illinois to Florenz Ziegfeld and Rose de Hez. Growing up, Ziegfeld hated school so much that he was sent to a cattle ranch in Wyoming. When he was growing up his father opened a nightclub which he called the Trocadero. The nightclub was supposed to be successful due to the upcoming World’s Fair. However, the nightclub did not attract enough people and in order to

Sandler grew up in Brooklyn, New York and was born on September 9th, 1966. While this probably doesn't come as a surprise, Adam was the class clown throughout high school. What was surprising is that Adam never realized how useful his sense of humor would be. He got his start in stand-up comedy one night when he got and started performing at a Boston bar he frequently

The Middle Tennessee State University has announced plans to change the name of Forrest Hall, which honors Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate military leader who went on, for a time, to be a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Sidney A. McPhee, president of the university, said “he was following the recommendation of a panel appointed to consider the name of Forrest Hall”. I agree with the students who want to change the name of the Forrest Hall Building on MTSU campus, because I think our students have the responsibility as those with the power to change this name since we don’t want to our state university to represent something hateful. “When MTSU built its ROTC building in 1954, President Smith named it Forrest Hall in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s reputation as an intrepid confederate cavalry leader who won fame with his brilliant raids. Maybe that was Forrest’s reputation in 1954, but in 2015 Forrest’s reputation becomes one of hate, racism, and violence. We do not want or need that at MTSU”.

Martin Lawrence was born in Frankfurt, Germany on April 16,1965. Martin Lawrence’s father, John Lawrence, served In the U.S. military. When Martin was 8 yrs old John Lawrence left the family & Martin was very upset.

On january 16, 1980, Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in Manhattan, New York to his lovely parents Luz Towns-Miranda and Luis A.Miranda jr. Growing up him and his sister, Luz Mirnada-Crespo, took piano lessons together, inspired by their parents. Both of his parents were born in puerto rico and happily married. His father was also a political advisor for a living. He went to exposed to different types of genres while growing up. While growing up he went to hunter college elementary and high school. He performed in the students performances in this preteen and teenage stage.

On July 9, 1956 Tom Hanks was born in Concord, California. At the age of five, his parents were divorced and he was raised, along with his siblings, by his father. After frequent moves around the state of California, they finally settled in Oakland where Hanks attended Skyline High School. After graduating in 1974, he began junior college in Hayward, California. When he realized he wanted to pursue

Louis Zamperini, was born to Louise and Anthony Zamperini on January 26, 1917 in Olean, New York. His father, Anthony, worked as a coal miner and a boxer, but then that soon changed and he began to work construction. His mother, Louise, worked as a stay at home mother. Anthony and Louise married when Louise was sixteen and she had Louis at age eighteen. They were just trying to make it in the United States as immigrants from Italy.

Do you like to watch movies? Spike Lee is one of the most famous directors in America. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born on March 20, 1957. His real name is Shelton Jackson Lee.

The late Stanley Kauffmann, a long time writer and critic for The New Republic wrote, “What is truly daring, and therefore refreshing, is the film’s moral stance” (23). That is, Benjamin Braddock, Hoffman’s character, didn’t live up to the decencies of a typical Hollywood hero. When Hoffman was 18, he blurted out at a family gathering, “I’m going to be an actor.” His aunt Pearl replied, “You can’t be an actor, you’re not good-looking enough” (Zeitlin, 112). This was a true testimony to what Dustin was as an actor. There wasn’t anything about him that was appealing for a lead role in Hollywood. In fact he once told Life Magazine’s David Zeitlin in an interview, “I’d never ask a girl in acting class to do a love scene. No girl asked me either” (112). American cinema had been so engrained with a “Cary Grant” like character -- good looking and always having the right words to say -- that there was no room for Hoffman in a competitive Hollywood with risky heroics and conservative morals roots. Conversely, this is why Dustin was the perfect fit for the role. Nichols explained his reasons for casting him by saying, “Dusty is one of the few new leading men in Hollywood who looks like people, rather than profiles in celluloid” (Zeitlin,

The ‘On the Waterfront’ actor spent most of his youth in Libertyville, Illinois, where he was brought up in a ‘difficult’ household. His mother, Dorothy was an alcoholic and he couldn’t

Sanford Meisner was born August 31, 1905 and passed away in 1997. Meisner raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Erasmus Hall in 1923 and he attended The Damrosch Institute of Music, also known as Juilliard. That is where he got his passion to study to become a concert pianist before he talked his way to a job in Theater Guild production of Sidney Howard's “They Knew What They Wanted.” In 1933 Meisner disenchanted with pure “method” acting.

Bennett was born to a Jewish mother and a Roman Catholic father, he studied dance and choreography in his early teens. He staged many musical shows at his Buffalo high school before dropping out at the age of Seventeen to join the road company of West Side Story. After touring he landed a dancing gig for Betty Comden. Years later Bennett had his first solo choreographing moment in 1966 with A Joyful Noise. After this great success he continued

Sidney Poitier was born on Febuary 20, 1927, in Miami, Florida. Although he barely survived the first months of his life due to premature birth, his family loved him very much. However, his family was very poor, and his family was very big, so it was hard to take care of the newborn baby. Once he was seven, Poitier's family decided to move to Cat Island in the Bahamas so they could earn money working on his father's tomato farm together. There, he started school at the age of ten in a one-roomed schoolhouse. Between working at his father's farm and trying to get an education, he only got about two years of school before he had to stop at the age of twelve to help his family through a crisis at the farm. Once he got to his teen years, he started causing trouble. During his mid-teen years, Poitier's parents finally decided to send him back to Florida to stay with his older brother. Poitier then stayed with his brother until he was sixteen, when he experienced much racisim, such as ridicule and rejection from high paying jobs and good shcools.

Jerry Lewis was an american actor, comedian, singer, producer, director, screenwriter, and humanitarian. He was born on March 16, 1992 in Newark, NJ and died on August 20, 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. Lewis started performing at age five and would often perform alongside his parents in the Catskill Mountains in New York. By 15, he had developed his "Record Act" in which he exaggeratedly mimed the lyrics to songs on a phonograph. He used the professional name Joey Lewis but soon changed it to Jerry Lewis to avoid confusion with comedian Joe E. Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis.He dropped out of Irvington High School in the tenth grade. He was a "character" even in his teenage years, pulling pranks

Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David in 1909, one of twelve children, grew up in a Chicago ghetto with his family, who fled Russian anti-Semitism. Encouraged by his father, an immigrant tailor, to learn a musical instrument, Goodman took up the clarinet at a young