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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 406942" data-attributes="member: 8">TOOTSIE (1982)[ATTACH=full]54062[/ATTACH]A fan favourite in the 1980s movie top ten and of course it&#039;s impossible not&nbsp; to know it.It&#039;s got a little bit of &quot;Nine To Five&quot; in it, perhaps also some Cagney &amp; Lacey vibes but maybe that&#039;s just the droning piano music that was so popular at that time (e.g. Cheers).I usually avoid the men-in-drag comedies because I find it so predictable and cliché especially when there&#039;s lust and romance involved, which is also very much the case in this film. Thankfully it never becomes hysterical, and perhaps it is the commitment of actress Dorothy Michaels to her fans that spills over into the reality of the film itself.It&#039;s not dismissed as &quot;it was all a joke&quot; and there&#039;s no desire to counterbalance it with macho behaviour just to make sure that everybody understands how straight Dustin Hoffman is.This makes it much easier to believe in it, but most importantly Dorothy doesn&#039;t do funny, she is&nbsp; funny in lots of little things. And charming and pleasant and in fact the kind of character I&#039;d love to watch in a soap.As the strong-willed TV character catapulted into superstardom it also foreshadowes the success of Joan Collins in Dynasty, I think.I think Tootsie has a consistently entertaining and intelligent script and this overcomes the weaker part of the story when Michael deals with the other female characters as a man.Teri Garr isn&#039;t very convincing as the doormat friend and I don&#039;t know why she was still there after Michael had taken her acting job.During the montage scenes of Dorothy-in-the-magazines they played the song &quot;sweet Tootsie roll&quot; and suddenly I realised that I had no idea who Tootsie was.There was Emily Kimberly played by Dorothy Michaels played by Michael Dorsey played by Dustin Hoffman.So I wondered, what if tootsie is not a name but a noun? I paused the film to look it up and there it was.But I still don&#039;t understand where the word comes from in the context of the story, let alone why it became the title of the film.My favourite scene happens in the dressing room with the almost naked actress and then Michael/Dorothy sort of sings &quot;dum deedee deedum&quot; as if to say I&#039;m not impressed and totally minding my own business. It&#039;s only three seconds but it made me laugh out loud.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 406942, member: 8"] TOOTSIE (1982) [ATTACH type="full"]54062[/ATTACH] A fan favourite in the 1980s movie top ten and of course it's impossible [I]not [/I] to know it. It's got a little bit of "Nine To Five" in it, perhaps also some Cagney & Lacey vibes but maybe that's just the droning piano music that was so popular at that time (e.g. Cheers). I usually avoid the men-in-drag comedies because I find it so predictable and cliché especially when there's lust and romance involved, which is also very much the case in this film. Thankfully it never becomes hysterical, and perhaps it is the commitment of actress Dorothy Michaels to her fans that spills over into the reality of the film itself. It's not dismissed as "it was all a joke" and there's no desire to counterbalance it with macho behaviour just to make sure that everybody understands how straight Dustin Hoffman is. This makes it much easier to believe in it, but most importantly Dorothy doesn't do funny, she[I] is[/I] funny in lots of little things. And charming and pleasant and in fact the kind of character I'd love to watch in a soap. As the strong-willed TV character catapulted into superstardom it also foreshadowes the success of Joan Collins in Dynasty, I think. I think Tootsie has a consistently entertaining and intelligent script and this overcomes the weaker part of the story when Michael deals with the other female characters as a man. Teri Garr isn't very convincing as the doormat friend and I don't know why she was still there after Michael had taken her acting job. During the montage scenes of Dorothy-in-the-magazines they played the song "sweet Tootsie roll" and suddenly I realised that I had no idea who Tootsie was. There was Emily Kimberly played by Dorothy Michaels played by Michael Dorsey played by Dustin Hoffman. So I wondered, what if tootsie is not a name but a noun? I paused the film to look it up and there it was. But I still don't understand where the word comes from in the context of the story, let alone why it became the title of the film. My favourite scene happens in the dressing room with the almost naked actress and then Michael/Dorothy sort of sings "dum deedee deedum" as if to say I'm not impressed and totally minding my own business. It's only three seconds but it made me laugh out loud. [/QUOTE]

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