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John Schlesinger: Dustin Hoffman
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Schlesinger's ability to engineer powerful scenes and encourage memorable acting drew praise, but there were critical reservations about the stylistic glibness of the film. The Day of the Locust (1975) was a hyperbolic and financially disastrous adaptation of Nathaniel West's satire on Hollywood. Marathon Man (1976), an implausible and plodding thriller, gained notoriety principally through a scene in which unanaesthetised dentistry was administered as torture on Dustin Hoffman by a fugitive Nazi played by Sir Laurence Olivier. It was, by all accounts, a fair reflection of Olivier's feelings for the American.
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In writing this biography, Mann received the full cooperation of Schlesinger himself, as well as that of his family and his companion of 36 years, Michael Childers. In addition, he was granted complete access to tapes, diaries, production notes, and correspondence, as well as interviews with many of the actors, crew members, friends, and colleagues who shared their thoughts and memories, including Eileen Atkins, the late Sir Alan Bates, Alan Bennett, Julie Christie, Sir Tom Courtney, Placido Domingo, Robert Evans, Sally Field, Melanie Griffith, Sir Peter Hall, Ed Harris, Dustin Hoffman. Shirley MacLaine, Ali McGraw, Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Nicolas Roeg, Isabella Rossellini, Roy Scheider, Martin Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Lily Tomlin, Brenda Vaccaro, Jon Voight, Robert Wagner, Billy Williams, Michael York, and Franco Zefferelli.
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Schlesinger continued working for the National Theatre and for major opera houses. Solti and Domingo rated him so highly that they asked him to direct operas for them, and his Les Contes d'Hoffman and Rosenkavalier at the Royal Opera House were notably successful.
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