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...result was worth it. Tootsie is more than Charley's Aunt updated or Myra Breckenridge toned down. In telling the tale of a man forced to get in touch with the feminine side of his nature and becoming a better man because of the experience, it triumphantly remains a farce for our times, not a tract for them. Despite the many creative hands involved, the picture has perfect comic tonality. It plays as if it were written by one wise and rueful individual, directed by someone who never felt a moment's anxiety...
Both Julia and the scriptwriter are from Bolivia, an instant Peruvian joke. Like Charley's Aunt ("I'm from Brazil, where the nuts come from"), rambunctious Julia is not as advertised. She is the former sister-in-law of Mario's uncle and so no blood relative. But by constantly referring to her as Aunt Julia, Mario keeps the tingle of a semi-scandalous relationship in his narrative. Paralleling this "real-life" romance are Camacho's soap operas. Dwarfish but with a melodious voice that has listeners imagining a movie idol, Camacho spends all his waking...
...brothers had managed the nearly impossible stunt ten times in practice sessions over the past year, and they had tried doing it at every performance since Dec. 29, when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 112th season. Charley Baumann, the circus' performance director, had seen them fail so many times that he too was stunned when they finally succeeded. He ran to the phone and called the show's producers, Irvin and Kenneth Feld, in Washington. "They asked me why the hell I was calling after midnight," he told TIME's Paul Krueger...
Other rare treats include one of Charley Finley's orange baseballs, autographed by Vida Blue and an autographed glossy of Reggie Jackson in an Orioles uniform an item the itinerant slugger himself lacked until Kelly gave some...
...Charley is No. 5 in the hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist...