Dustin Hoffman can mark March 19 on his calendar. That's when he'll probably have another date with Mrs. Robinson. But all in good fun.

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Hoffman has been chosen as the recipient of the annual salute of the American Museum of the Moving Image. The museum's yearly gala benefit, in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, typically finds the honoree reliving his professional life through the reminiscences of colleagues and clips from his films.So no one will be surprised if Anne Bancroft, who played Mrs. Robinson opposite Hoffman in "The Graduate" in 1967, puts in an appearance. Mike Nichols, who directed the film, is among the 12 previous recipients of salutes from the museum, which is in Astoria, Queens. The others are Sidney Lumet, James Stewart, Elia Kazan, Sidney Poitier, Robert De Niro, Barbara Walters, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Steven Spielberg and Goldie Hawn.

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