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Prologue
The Graduate, Little Big Man, Rain Man, Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Papillon: Hoffman was in so many great movies.
He also starred in lesser-known films, one of which was
WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN, (AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME?).
If you haven’t heard of it I’m not surprised. Filmed in 1970 and released a year later it may be one of Hoffman’s least memorable films. In a middling story with some uneven editing, Hoffman plays a neurotic songwriter of 1960’s rock hits.
The film contains two memorable scenes: a Rock Concert where the great Shel Silverstein fronts for the Dr. Hook band and My Appearance in a Major Hollywood Movie. (Dox to follow!)
A little background: in 1970 I was living in San Juan and enrolled on the Dianetic Auditor course at Dick Dorff’s CofS Mission.
I heard that a Dustin Hoffman film was going to be shooting in town, that they were looking for extras and paying $50 for a day’s work. Fifty bucks in 1970 would equal almost $270 today. At the casting interview I was hired to play part of a tourist group that traveled to Mexico for quickie divorces. They told me to show up next morning at an old Spanish fort in the city wearing a 3-button sports coat, white dress shirt and tie.
I was living in the Tropics and there was no way that I owned a sports coat, white dress shirt, tie or even closed-toed shoes. My friend, Tom Rodriguez, lent me a jacket and tie and a pair of black shoes and socks. The closest I had to a white dress shirt was a Guayabera, also known as a wedding shirt, often worn by Hispanic men. They have four large patch pockets connected by vertical rows of pleats and are worn untucked. Luckily, I still owned a pair of long pants and, tucked in and with the jacket buttoned, the pockets and pleats were hidden.
In the morning, dressed in my costume, I rode the bus into Old San Juan city.
Next: The Shoot.
The Graduate, Little Big Man, Rain Man, Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Papillon: Hoffman was in so many great movies.
He also starred in lesser-known films, one of which was
WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN, (AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME?).
If you haven’t heard of it I’m not surprised. Filmed in 1970 and released a year later it may be one of Hoffman’s least memorable films. In a middling story with some uneven editing, Hoffman plays a neurotic songwriter of 1960’s rock hits.
The film contains two memorable scenes: a Rock Concert where the great Shel Silverstein fronts for the Dr. Hook band and My Appearance in a Major Hollywood Movie. (Dox to follow!)
A little background: in 1970 I was living in San Juan and enrolled on the Dianetic Auditor course at Dick Dorff’s CofS Mission.
I heard that a Dustin Hoffman film was going to be shooting in town, that they were looking for extras and paying $50 for a day’s work. Fifty bucks in 1970 would equal almost $270 today. At the casting interview I was hired to play part of a tourist group that traveled to Mexico for quickie divorces. They told me to show up next morning at an old Spanish fort in the city wearing a 3-button sports coat, white dress shirt and tie.
I was living in the Tropics and there was no way that I owned a sports coat, white dress shirt, tie or even closed-toed shoes. My friend, Tom Rodriguez, lent me a jacket and tie and a pair of black shoes and socks. The closest I had to a white dress shirt was a Guayabera, also known as a wedding shirt, often worn by Hispanic men. They have four large patch pockets connected by vertical rows of pleats and are worn untucked. Luckily, I still owned a pair of long pants and, tucked in and with the jacket buttoned, the pockets and pleats were hidden.
In the morning, dressed in my costume, I rode the bus into Old San Juan city.
Next: The Shoot.
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