Hoffman doesn't look anything like the real Howe, but he has a classic aging manager's body, with a large, rounded gut, and, like a lot of managers, he's sphinxlike and impervious and surly.
This is more of a classic bank manager size – big enough for your chums and your golf clubs, not so big that you have to worry about parking.
He describes himself as a "classic growth manager," selecting the fund's 65 or so issues from among United States companies with market values of more than $5 billion.
He recently talked with Dan Patrick on Patrick's radio show, and, via Deadspin, here's some classic Orioles manager (see also Earl Weaver) repartee: Patrick: "Just got your 1,000th victory.
And in his corner - it's a classic - the manager's saying, "Goddammit, Billy, didn't we tell you to stick and move?" And Billy, lying there on the ground, says, "What's the use of being Irish if you can't be stupid?"' And Budd Schulberg chuckles.
Ah, the classic "football managers' salaries are affected by currency depreciation" argument against Brexit.
During the first Classic, in 2006, Manager Joe Girardi was in his first (and only) year as the manager of the Florida Marlins.
It's a Football Manager classic.
iPhone / iPad Football Manager Classic 2015 (£14.99) The Football Manager Handheld games are excellent, but if you want to go even further down the football management rabbit-hole, get this new version.
It was the old, classic battle between manager and performer, which the artist is always bound to win – if only because he or she is in the public eye.
