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Kathryn Rossetter was an inexperienced young actress in when Hoffman took a liking to her at an audition for a Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman.

This allegedly happened every performance, six to eight times per week. According to Rossetter , Hoffman would ask her to pose with him for photographs at parties after each performance. Every time, Hoffman would squeeze her breast, then drop his hand before the shutter went off. All except one time, which was caught on film; Rossetter held on to the photo. Video editor Melissa Kester was 20 when she says she met Hoffman at a recording studio in Malibu in Give me your number.

Kester says she returned to the recording studio for another day of observing. Send Melissa in here. Game to play along, Kester says she entered the recording booth. She could see her boyfriend behind the mixing table through the narrow window, along with several other crewmembers observing. It later occurred to her that she and Hoffman were only visible from the shoulders up. When recording began on the next take, Hoffman grabbed Kester firmly and pulled her into him, she claims.

From the mixing table, it seemed like innocent palling around. But inside the booth, Kester says Hoffman was pushing his hand down into her pants. I felt so cheap. It changed everything. A few days later, Hoffman used the phone number Kester had given him.

But I blew him off. Kester turned him down again. You have 0 items in your cart. As a non-profit organization, the Kennedy Center is reliant upon our generous donors to fulfill our mission. Your tax-deductible gift will help keep our vital arts and education initiatives accessible to more communities across the nation!

To join or renew as a Member, please visit our Membership page. To make a donation in memory of someone, please visit our Memorial Donation page. Actor and director; born August 8, , in Los Angeles, California If a visitor from another planet were to stumble on a trove of American movies, he might wonder at the tireless troupe of actors who have portrayed a full spectrum of humanity including everything from a pathetic homeless bum to a dashing Manhattan single, a popular soap opera diva on television and a down-on-his-luck singer in Ishtar, an innocent named Benjamin just out of college and about to be seduced, a year-old Native American about to die, a young divorced parent, an autistic savant, a Washington Post reporter going after the Watergate cover-up story, and a Columbia graduate student with the Nazis after him, Meyer Lansky, Lenny Bruce, Willy Lohman and even Shakespeare's Shylock, plus Captain Hook, and the voice of Shifu in the Kung Fu Panda films for good measure.

The idea that a single person could portray all these roles is of course too much. Yet that is only a fraction of Dustin Hoffman's body of work.

Perhaps the most versatile, iconoclastic, and surprising of American actors, Dustin Hoffman's commitment to the roles he plays makes him a Hollywood powerhouse. There never will be. From the moment he bothemexploded and bodied s consciousness as Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichols' The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman has never, ever taken the obvious path. Think of the progression of his early career alone, from the melancholy alienation of The Graduate and the desperate sadness of Midnight Cowboy, the existential tension of the everyday in the underrated John and Mary, the decrepit hero of Little Big Man, the doomed prisoner in Papillon and the fast-talking proto-Lothario in the loopy and wonderful Alfredo Alfredo --could any one of these roles have hinted at the next?

So he and Bob Colesberry stood next to me for 45 minutes. He smiled and I introduced myself. He looked good, but a bit gray. February 20, No one is percent good or bad. I have so many reactions reading these letters and looking at photos from that time.

The novel Ironweed as a conversation starter! God bless that glorious, pretentious kid. Mostly though, my heart aches. I want to weep that she found this charming. I want to hug her for having the guts to tell him to stop, even though her voice shook.

Because she was so proud of herself. Would she have swallowed her humiliation and ditched her college plans to accept his offer of a job on Ishtar? As it was, this was a lark, and damn if she was going to let a few shitty encounters get in the way of the most exciting experience of her life.

She was going to flaunt the keychain he gave her and take pictures with every actor she could get her hands on. The rage does feel good, momentarily. Yes, he was gross. But he could also be sweet and wanted me to like him. Which I did. Whenever I talk about this, I sense that my listeners want a victim and a villain. And I wish my feelings were as clear as theirs. I would be more comfortable if I felt nothing but revulsion for a man who had power over me and abused it.

But I still like watching him onscreen. I owned the VHS of Tootsie for a long time and watched it over and over in my 20s and 30s, even as I remembered telling him how disappointed I was, that I expected better of him after that movie.

I can feast my tired eyes on you. A year and a half after Death of a Salesman , I would meet another, much older married actor who, like Dustin, alternately charmed and repelled me.

Unlike Dustin, he was in it for the long game. It took him weeks to kiss the top of my head and eight months to invite me to his apartment to take a nap. People use the term grooming to describe what sexual predators do with children so they can reap the benefits, but what if they groom us so other men can reap the benefits?

At 49, I understand what Dustin Hoffman did as it fits into the larger pattern of what women experience in Hollywood and everywhere. He was a predator, I was a child, and this was sexual harassment.