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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...
...school has also eliminated a "concentration" requirement in the fourth year, consisting of an additional four months of clerkships left to the students' choice. Both students and faculty agreed that the requirement had become "dysfunctional," because of logistical problems within some of the topics of concentration. Thus, says Myra B. Ramos, assistant to the dean for academic affairs, the number of total required clerkship months is the same as before, with the major change being that students are now told which 12 clerkships they must take...
SIDNEY BRUHL lives in the wilds of East Hampton with his dotty wife Myra and her brown Mercedes. She's very rich; he's written four Broadway flops. She screams when the telephone rings; he's snide, dry, urbane and British. She has a weak heart; he collects antique instruments of destruction. And they don't get along too well either. It all seems so obvious...
...hold on a minute. This is comedy-thriller and we're still in act one. Some master plotting is in order here--bizarre reversals, wacky characters, things going bump in the night. After all, Myra (Dyan Cannon) may be a bit too touchy/feely for her husband's effete tastes, but has-been Sidney (Michael Caine) would never murder her--he needs an ego-booster, not the missus's millions. Or does...
...fair attempt at matching the wit and elegance of Shaffer's play. Tendorp, the psychic, adds a nice comic touch by dropping by to see Sidney at all the wrong times, and prophesying ominously about a dangerous playwright named "Smith-Collona." Cannon is suitably daffy as the gushing Myra, and Reeve is, well, a hunk. Caine, who played Reeve's younger man to Laurence Olivier in Sleuth, undoubtedly steals the show. Biting and demonic one moment, vulnerable and pitiful the next, he's really the only actor in the movie who takes his character beyond the traditional two-dimensionality...