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Defamer apologizes for agreeing with yesterday's NYT headline for their profile of acclaimed actor Dustin Hoffman. Clearly, Hoffman is displaying an acceptable amount of effort late in his career, as evidenced in the DVD outtakes for Meet the Fockers:

The two-time Oscar winner, who ''started acting to do Shakespeare,'' drops trou, proudly announces his arousal, and passes wind with such schoolboy delight that even grim Robert De Niro, who reportedly last laughed in "Cape Fear," can't help but bust up.

What does the guy have to do to prove that he isn't phoning it in as his twilight years approach, chase Robert DeNiro around the set with a saddle and a chemically-induced erection, threatening to ride the taciturn star like a petting-zoo pony until he learns to laugh again? In the future, we will endeavor not to rush to judgment in these matters.