Tootsie | film by Pollack [1982] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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    In Sydney Pollack: Tootsie and Out of Africa
    Tootsie (1982) was one of the highlights of Pollack’s career, a blend of romance and comedy built around the talents of Dustin Hoffman, who played a struggling actor who turns to cross-dressing in order to land a role on a soap opera. The Academy Award-nominated…
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• drag queens
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    In drag queen
    As with the movie Tootsie (1982), one Hollywood theme that allowed for the popularization of drag queens is the idea that men only dress like ladies to get the girl. In contrast, a film like Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) reminds us that drag remains, in many…
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• Oscar to Lange for best supporting actress, 1982

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• Davis
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    In Geena Davis
    …bit part in the comedy Tootsie (1982). Davis was cast as a research assistant for an irascible talk show host played by Dabney Coleman in the short-lived (1983–84) television comedy Buffalo Bill. She went on to play guest roles in other TV series, including a recurring part in 1984 and…
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• Hoffman
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    In Dustin Hoffman
    …and earned another nomination for Tootsie (1982), in which he played an out-of-work actor who, while masquerading as a woman, finds steady employment on a daytime soap opera.
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• Lange
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    In Jessica Lange
    …relief in the gender-bending farce Tootsie, playing a vulnerable soap opera actress. She earned Academy Award nominations for both films and was named best supporting actress for Tootsie.
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• May
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    In Elaine May
    …script doctor on Dustin Hoffman’s Tootsie (1982). Beatty acted as producer when she wrote and directed the comedy Ishtar (1987), which starred Beatty and Hoffman and was one of the most notorious flops in movie history.
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