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...hits. In 1980, for example, a trio of holiday comediesying home with their new video games. This season moviemakers are playing by the old rules, with bantamweight farces and mellow romantic comedies that are luring sizable audiences to the local Cineplex. The class comedy act is Tootsie, in which Dustin Hoffman winningly proves that an actor's life is a drag. But there are other new comedies aiming to answer the moguls' prayer: that this Christmas will be business as usual...
...Dustin Hoffman can wear a dress to get his movie character an acting job, Richard Pryor can wear a dress in his job as a waitress. Pryor plays an underemployed journalist who, for $10,000, agrees to act as the baby-sitter in the swimming pool...
Tootsie is the story of how a failed off-Broadway actor named Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) achieves wisdom as well as professional success when he dresses up as a woman called Dorothy Michaels, becomes a star on a television soap opera and a kind of feminist media heroine as well. The movie was one of the messiest productions in recent history, for a time informally retitled "The Troubled Tootsie" in the gossip columns. No fewer than eight writers, three directors and a spare producer or two worked on it. There were hair-raising stories of Hoffman and Director Sydney Pollack...
...After arbitration, screen credit finally went to Gelbart and Schisgal. But it was Pollack who "sat in a room with a staple gun and a pair of scissors," stitching all this material together. He insisted that a certain innocence and tastefulness had to be maintained, despite the fact that "Dustin is more outrageous, more adventurous, shall we say." The star's willingness to open himself up gives Tootsie its humanity. But the rigor of Pollack's debate with Hoffman may have sharpened the actor's extraordinary performance, shaped his improvs and brought this diffuse enterprise into...
Even with two men pursuing her, Dorothy can't think of herself as attractive. Says Pollack: "Dustin has said to me that if he just didn't have that face, if he looked like Robert Redford, he'd be the world's greatest actor, so he incorporated his lack of confidence about his looks into Dorothy. Finally, we're looking at the story of an actor who, when he had to play the part of a woman, was skilled enough to get in touch with the woman in himself. That is why, when Jessica says...