Word: pollack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 yelling and throwing things at each other ("greatly exaggerated" Pollack now murmurs), of shutdowns and delays while they struggled over everything from Hoffman's makeup (which required three hours' preparation a day) and his often improvised interpretation of the character to the nature and nuances of the gags...
...since he finished Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979, Hoffman had been looking for a script that would permit him to explore the questions "What makes someone a man? What makes someone a woman?" He batted the theme around with a friend, Playwright Murray Schisgal. By the time he and Pollack (who followed Dick Richards and Hal Ashby as director) joined forces, he had acquired not only various draft scripts but a ferocious proprietary interest in the film. Says Hoffman: "The great scripts don't drop out of the sky; you have to invent them...
...part, Pollack (whose 13 films include The Way We Were and Absence of Malice) was "very apprehensive about doing comedy." He was especially worried about directing the first script of Tootsie that he read. He recalls that it was hard to know "if it was an homage to actors, a sophisticated comedy examining sexual mores or a story about the rehabilitation of a sexist." As the production began, tempers were tight. At times during the first month, only one shot a day was completed, as Hoffman's complex makeup literally slid down his face under the lights. Eventually...
...economy was indeed weak when Ronald Reagan took oil ice, largely because of the one of his predecessor's policies that he has continued to follow--tight money. The rest of Reagan's macroeconomic policy has all the coherence of a Jackson Pollack canvas--a splash of tax breaks for the rich, a big dollop for the Pentagon, and plenty of white space for the poor and working class Reagan's defense buildup might conceivably create a few jobs, but unity for highly skilled workers and engineers in the already humming weapons plants of the Sun Belt...
...from the volcano has been spotted at scattered locations around the globe. At the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, astronomers say the brightness of stars has been reduced by 40%, and volcanic dust has created garish sunsets over wide areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Says Atmospheric Physicist James Pollack, of NASA's Ames Research Center, which has used U-2 aircraft to collect samples of El Chichón's dust: "This is the biggest volcanic cloud we have had in the last two decades...