Professor Hoffman's puzzle book mentioned above also contained two interlocking puzzles.

In the movie Kramer vs. Kramer, Dustin Hoffman's character reads this book to his son.

Hoffman's first book was A Winter in the Far West ( 1835 ), recounting his travels as far west as St. Louis, Missouri.

John Chapman and his brother Nathaniel are characters in Alice Hoffman's novel, The Red Garden.

The New Klezmer trio kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi music and paved the way for John Zorn's Masada, Naftule's Dream, Don Byron's Mickey Katz project and violinist Daniel Hoffman's band Davka.

He is known for his performance as Dustin Hoffman's father in The Graduate ( 1967 ), as Howard in Two for the Road, as John Adams in 1776, as Carter Nash in Captain Nice, as Mr. George Feeny in ABC's Boy Meets World, as the voice of KITT in Knight Rider, and as Dr. Mark Craig in St.

It was Hoffman's 400th save, and he became the third pitcher in MLB history to reach the milestone, following John Franco ( 424 ) and Lee Smith ( 478 ).

Mic Rodgers ( Mel Gibson's stunt double ), John Casino ( Kurt Russell's stunt double ), Keith Tellez ( Dustin Hoffman's stunt double, Fast & Furious ), Bob Elmore ( John Candy's stunt double ), Carl Ciarfalio ( The Whole Ten Yards ), Merritt Yohnka ( stuntman on Nash Bridges ), Ray Gabriel ( Baywatch, Magnolia ( film ), Bob Hoskins ' stunt double ), Jim Poslof, Bob Rochelle, Bob Stambaugh, Terry Jackson, Robert Shook, Davey Thompson ( Multiplicity ( film ), Absolute Power ( film ), Spider-Man 3, Ed Harris ' stunt double ), and Stephen Burhoe ( 1st & Ten ( HBO TV series ), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, acting coach ).

Since then Hoffman's career has largely been focused on cinema, with sporadic returns to television and the stage.

Rain Mans portrayal of the main character's condition has been seen as inaugurating a common and incorrect media stereotype that people on the autism spectrum typically have savant skills, and references to Rain Man, in particular Dustin Hoffman's performance, have become a popular shorthand for autism and savantism.

" Rivera, however, broke Hoffman's career save record in 2011, and also has a better ERA in addition to a more superior ERA + and other sabermetric statistics.

It's possible to have two of these attributes, but not all ; this has been termed Hoffman's Iron Law after J. Anton Hoffman of KLH.

For a short period in the late 1840s, Germany was united with Hoffman's borders, with a democratic constitution in the make, and with the black-red-gold flag to represent it.

Hoffman's largest film failure was Elaine May's Ishtar, with Warren Beatty.

One cultural intervention that misfired was at Woodstock, with Abbie Hoffman's attempt to use the stage as a soapbox immediately prior to a performance by The Who.

At Beatty's request, the two met with May and Hoffman's creative confidant, playwright Murray Schisgal.

Judge Hoffman's handling of the trial, along with the FBI's bugging of the defence lawyers, resulted, with the help of the Center for Constitutional Rights, in the convictions being overturned by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals two years later, on 21 November 1972.

In 1996, at the first Democratic Convention held in Chicago since 1968, Dellinger was arrested along with nine others ( including his own grandson as well as Abbie Hoffman's son Andrew ) during a sit-in protest at Chicago's Federal Building.

Most closers depend on one pitch that becomes synonymous with their success: Trevor Hoffman's changeup, Mariano Rivera's cut fastball.

* Republic took its original " Liberty Bell " logo from M. H. Hoffman's Liberty Pictures ( not to be confused with Frank Capra's short-lived Liberty Films that produced his It's a Wonderful Life, ironically now owned by Republic ).

Hoffman's Fister is a seemingly naive and mild-mannered bureaucrat with a sense for sniffing out phonies.

So Coleman was later recast as the soap opera director, and Pollack with some reluctance played Hoffman's agent.

He does the same kind of stunt playing Captain Kirk in the character of Tom Cruise in Rain Man with Kahn playing Dustin Hoffman's savant character in the makeup and dialogue of Mr. Spock.

Hoffman's poetry collection Journey to the End ( which includes the poems that Lamantia read at the Six Gallery ) was published by City Lights in 2008, bound together with Lamantia's own Tau, a poem-cycle also dating from the mid-fifties.

Captain Armistead was left with two infantry companies and the column's artillery to garrison Hoffman's encampment at Beale's Crossing on the east bank of the Colorado River, Camp Colorado.

A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner and When We Were Very Young, Heinrich Hoffman's Der Struwwelpeter, Johnny Gruelle's Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees, and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie.

The museum also published a Map of Mankind, featuring her sculptures in a border surrounding a map of the world that was distributed widely with an informative, large-format booklet that made Hoffman's sculptures very well known.

Hoffman's version, however, had little in common with the true event.

In 2011, Moment was presented with the Be ' chol Lashon Media Award for Carl Hoffman's " Letter from the Philippines ," which chronicles the history of the island's Jews and his rediscovery of Judaism as a foreigner living in Manila.

Hoffman's wide reading qualified him to write on all sorts of subjects, and he turned, apparently with no difficulty, from reviewing books on medicine to violent attacks on the Jesuits.

Dean Hoffman's " grand design " was for the seminary's Chelsea campus to be built on an Oxford model, with neo-Gothic buildings facing onto a central quadrangle or Close.

Hoffman's symbolic theatrics were successful at convincing many young people to become more active in the politics of the time.

This rule of thumb is sometimes called Hoffman's Iron Law ( after J. A.

USA Today called the movie " highly entertaining ", describing Hawke and Hoffman's performances as excellent.

In addition to visual improvements ( less jagged, smooth ) like the Nintendo 64 version of the first game, a new level called Bike Headquarters ( from Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX ) was added.

* Neil Gaiman's Sandman series of graphic novels feature a character created by Morpheus (" the Sandman ") called the Corinthian, who steals the eyes of his victims, similarly to Hoffman's Sandman.

James House, who later became a country music artist, served as Hoffman's vocal coach in the film.

Matthys was a follower of Melchior Hoffman, who, after Hoffman's imprisonment at Strasbourg, obtained a considerable following in the Low Countries, including Bockelson.

One of Hoffman's earliest roles was as a police deputy who gets punched in the face by Newman in 1994's Nobody's Fool.

In the second season, Benzali was replaced by Anthony LaPaglia as Jimmy Wyler, a former assistant district attorney who took over Hoffman's firm.

Ed, who did not trust that coaches would protect Hoffman's arm, no longer let Hoffman pitch after he was 12 years old.

Bruce Bochy, who managed Hoffman for over a decade with the Padres, said of Hoffman's changeup: " He pitched so well off his fastball couldn't just sit on it every pitch.

Thomas Lesser, who had previously been Abbie Hoffman's lawyer in his case against the CIA, represented Narco News while Giordano represented himself.

Homer is impressed by the card-counting abilities of a man who resembles Raymond Babbitt, Hoffman's character in the film.

Hoffman's songs were recorded by Frank Sinatra (" Close To You ", " I'm Gonna Live Until I Die "), Billy Eckstine (" I Apologize ") Perry Como (" Papa Loves Mambo ", " Hot Diggity "), Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (" Who Walks In When I Walk Out "), Nat " King " Cole, Tony Bennett, the Merry Macs, Sophie Tucker, Eartha Kitt, Patsy Cline, Patti Page (" Allegheny Moon "), Bette Midler, and most everyone who was a star of that era.

In Paul Hoffman's biography of Paul Erdős, The man who loved only numbers, the Wilf sequence is cited but with the initial terms switched.