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...Actor, which this year promises a tight competition, free of Hollywood sentimentality and the tradition of awarding nominations to make up for past oversights. The nominees are Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Paul Newman in The Verdict, Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year, Jack Lemmon in Missing and Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie...
...January 5th review of the movie, Tootsie, the reviewer wrote, "[Dustin] Hoffman is so convincing as Dorothy that the fact that two men fall in love with him isn't disgusting..." I have only one question on this statement. Does the reviewer mean to imply that it would be disgusting for two men to knowingly fall in love with another man? And one comment: If so, I find it highly unprofessonal and in poor taste for personal judgement to find its way into journalism. Michelle Raga...
TTHREE CHEERS for Dustin Hoffman who's done what most cynical middle-class Americans who think they've seen everything already thought Hoffman wouldn't be able to pull off without being offensive, stereotypical, or stupid. In his triple-layered performance in Tootsie. Hoffman seems unreproachable for his portrayal of a New York City actor who becomes a woman actor in order to play a female star in a television soap opera Hoffman doesn't need to fill his portrayal of the struggling actor Michael Dorsey with homosexual innuendos or explicit feminine gestures. The comedy-of-errors resulting from Dorsey...
...Academy Awards time, and Dustin Hoffman wins again. This time, he's awarded Best Actor for his performance in Bison, in which he dresses as a lonely buffalo whose federal funding has been eliminated and whose range is being plundered by oil magnates. The elated Hoffman reveals that his next movie will be Dullsie, the story of the political career of John Glenn...
Tootsie. A screwball comedy for our times, with Dustin Hoffman splendid as an actor who dons a dress to win a role and becomes a better man as a result. The supporting cast is extraordinary, the writing and direction on pitch...