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Just one word: plastic. Are you here for an affair? These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth rebellion seeped into the California upper middle-class in Mike Nichols' landmark hit. Mentally adrift the summer after graduating from college, suburbanite Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) would rather float .. Read more

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  The Graduate named top soundtrack

  • 17 Jan 2006

  Simon and Garfunkel's music to the film The Graduate has been named the top soundtrack in movie history. The soundtrack for Mike Nichols' (Closer, Catch 22) film, which starred Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, included the songs Mrs Robinson, The Sound Of Silence and Scarborough Fair. Readers of Giant magazine gave second place to the 1984 film Purple Rain that featured Prince's musical and acting talents. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, with tracks by Al Green and Dusty Springfield, took... Read more

  

  Goldberg honoured by Casting Society of America

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 27 Sep 2011

  Whoopi Goldberg reunited with the director who gave her her big break on Monday (26Sep11) as he presented the actress with a top honour at the Casting Society of America's 2011 Artios Awards ceremony. The Graduate filmmaker Mike Nichols spotted Goldberg's talent when she appeared in ensemble piece Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away in the early 1980s and helped to transfer the show to Broadway, where the actress caught Steven Spielberg's eye and he cast her as the lead in his... Read more

  

  Ross wins restraining order against daughter

  • 13 Mar 2011

  Actress Katharine Ross has won a restraining order against her daughter over allegations the 26 year old stabbed her with a pair of scissors during a violent incident at the family home. The Graduate star filed papers at Los Angeles County Superior Court last week requesting protection from Cleo, her only child with actor husband Sam Elliott. In the legal documents, Ross alleges Cleo has been physically violent and verbally abusive since she was 12 or 13 years old and she "suddenly lost her... Read more

  

  Freeman lands AFI lifetime achievement honour

  • 12 Oct 2010

  Morgan Freeman is to be honoured with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award next year (11). The Oscar-winning star's 40-year career will be celebrated at a star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles in June (11). Freeman previously won an Academy Award in 2005 for his role in Million Dollar Baby. He also landed a Golden Globe for 1989's Driving Miss Daisy. Previous winners of the coveted award include Michael Douglas, Al Pacino, Sean Connery and Meryl Streep. The Graduate director Read more

  

  Dustin to direct legal thriller

  • 09 Jul 2007

  The Graduate star Dustin Hoffman has announced he is to turn his hand to directing and take on a legal thriller entitled Personal Injuries. Adapted from a novel by American lawyer-turned-author Scott Turow, Personal Injuries sees its protagonist caught up in a web of corruption, bribery and scandal in a small US town. Hoffman told USA Today he is to co-write the script in addition to producing and directing the film, with an expected release date sometime next year. More recently, he has... Read more

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