The world's a stage. (Letter from the Editors).

W, May, 2003 by Belcove, Julie L.

May

The groundbreaking artist Robert Rauschenberg once said that his fascination with performance art had to do with the fact that we--all of us--are always performing. Every day, in settings intimate and public, private and professional, we put on a face, adopt certain gestures or a manner of speaking, in pursuit of an agenda, be it benign or otherwise. No doubt a magazine interview is an extreme example.

Which is why several stories in this issue are particularly compelling. Three men, all accustomed for years, if not decades, to being public figures, offer an intriguing blend of honesty and spin, leaving it to you to decipher which is which. First there is Dustin Hoffman, who made his stunning movie debut 36 years ago in The Graduate and emerged as...

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