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<blockquote data-quote="Piggyrella Sanderson" data-source="post: 417670" data-attributes="member: 82"><p>This weekend I watched several movies with my best friend, and the first of them was a rewatch...</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]55449[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>"Tootsie": A Sydney Pollack film starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange (in her first Oscar-winning role), Dabney Coleman (who seems to be reprising his "9 to 5" part), Charles Durning, a fantastic Teri Garr, Bill Murray and a beginner Geena Davis, among others. More on these others at the end of the post.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]55448[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">Davis debuted in movies as one of the cast</p> <p style="text-align: center">members in the soap, sharing her dressroom</p> <p style="text-align: center">with "Dorothy Michaels".</p><p></p><p>One of my favorite all-time comedies, it keeps its fast pacing from beginning to end. The story is about a 40something actor (Hoffman) who can´t make a living and randomly ends up taking a female role in a soap called "General Hospital" (which I´d assume is NOT that GH soap). He hits it big and falls in love with a fellow actress (Lange) in the process, also affecting the lives of a small group of people and changing his view and attitude towards women.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]55447[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">"Anyone saw my pearls, dears?"</p><p></p><p>This is a pure classic and hasn´t changed in 40 years, or maybe it´s even funnier to watch because of the careers most of its cast eventually had. Is it PC? It succeeds even in that aspect: its subject is not trans people, or crossdressing, or gayness. It´s about survival and the consequences of faking who you are, and who hasn´t lied in their lives? It´s a really pleasant movie to watch. The Dave Grusin score is like a massage for your brain, and Stephen Bishop´s songs are either romantic or funny. The legend says that Hoffman secretly directed it (pulling a Barbra), and Pollack ended up sick of him.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]55450[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">You can´t fail with these two...</p><p></p><p>And then Jessica. Oh Jessica! This was released the same year than "Frances", and she was nominated for both movies, though the "Tootsie" one was for supporting actress, which she won. It took her over 10 years to win the "big" one for a minor movie called "Blue Sky". Through the years she has become one of the best, most beloved actresses of her generation and the next too, with her many roles for TV, including the 4 seasons of "American Horror Stories" she starred in.</p><p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">[MEDIA=youtube]9mKLxWrRVMg[/MEDIA]</p> <p style="text-align: center">Don´t miss this video, with Jessica looking so shy and sweet!</p> <p style="text-align: center">A time when legends gave Oscars away and actors kissed each</p> <p style="text-align: center">other instead of punching! It´s the end of the world!</p><p></p><p>The movie also got nominations for best film, actor, supporting actress (Garr), director, screenplay, cinematography, sound, editing and song. That film season was also remarkable for queerness, with such roles as John Lithgow´s trans character in "The world according to Garp" and the ultra-classic "Victor / Victoria", with all kinds of crossdressing, homosexuality, lesbianism and bisexuality all rolled into one amazing treat of a movie.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]55452[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">The funniest scene in a comedy ever.</p><p></p><p>And now, guess who I found in a "wink-and-miss" appearance in "Tootsie"?</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]55445[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Yesss, it´s HER!!!</p> <p style="text-align: center">The April woman digging for some gold in one party at about 50´of the film!!</p> <p style="text-align: center">I had no idea and it was my friend who recognized her. Congrats Miss Wilson</p> <p style="text-align: center">for appearing in an Oscar-nominated movie!!</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p>PS: The movie is so early 80s that you can´t miss the fact that it represents the world of nighttime soaps as much as the daytime soaps, when everybody stopped doing everything to watch their favorite shows, when actors got "killed" if they asked too much money, and when people talked about the plots the next morning. Anecdotically, the Spanish-dubbed version features an homage to "Dallas" in the scene where Murray mentions that Indian Americans are as American as the Barrymores and Danny and Marie Osmond. In Spanish, he says "and Pamela and J.R. from "Dallas" (since nobody knew the Osmonds here). Seriously.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piggyrella Sanderson, post: 417670, member: 82"] This weekend I watched several movies with my best friend, and the first of them was a rewatch... [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="1738587018024.png"]55449[/ATTACH][/CENTER] "Tootsie": A Sydney Pollack film starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange (in her first Oscar-winning role), Dabney Coleman (who seems to be reprising his "9 to 5" part), Charles Durning, a fantastic Teri Garr, Bill Murray and a beginner Geena Davis, among others. More on these others at the end of the post. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="1738586913438.png"]55448[/ATTACH] Davis debuted in movies as one of the cast members in the soap, sharing her dressroom with "Dorothy Michaels".[/CENTER] One of my favorite all-time comedies, it keeps its fast pacing from beginning to end. The story is about a 40something actor (Hoffman) who can´t make a living and randomly ends up taking a female role in a soap called "General Hospital" (which I´d assume is NOT that GH soap). He hits it big and falls in love with a fellow actress (Lange) in the process, also affecting the lives of a small group of people and changing his view and attitude towards women. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="1738586857287.png"]55447[/ATTACH] "Anyone saw my pearls, dears?"[/CENTER] This is a pure classic and hasn´t changed in 40 years, or maybe it´s even funnier to watch because of the careers most of its cast eventually had. Is it PC? It succeeds even in that aspect: its subject is not trans people, or crossdressing, or gayness. It´s about survival and the consequences of faking who you are, and who hasn´t lied in their lives? It´s a really pleasant movie to watch. The Dave Grusin score is like a massage for your brain, and Stephen Bishop´s songs are either romantic or funny. The legend says that Hoffman secretly directed it (pulling a Barbra), and Pollack ended up sick of him. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="1738587114747.png"]55450[/ATTACH] You can´t fail with these two...[/CENTER] And then Jessica. Oh Jessica! This was released the same year than "Frances", and she was nominated for both movies, though the "Tootsie" one was for supporting actress, which she won. It took her over 10 years to win the "big" one for a minor movie called "Blue Sky". Through the years she has become one of the best, most beloved actresses of her generation and the next too, with her many roles for TV, including the 4 seasons of "American Horror Stories" she starred in. [CENTER] [MEDIA=youtube]9mKLxWrRVMg[/MEDIA] Don´t miss this video, with Jessica looking so shy and sweet! A time when legends gave Oscars away and actors kissed each other instead of punching! It´s the end of the world![/CENTER] The movie also got nominations for best film, actor, supporting actress (Garr), director, screenplay, cinematography, sound, editing and song. That film season was also remarkable for queerness, with such roles as John Lithgow´s trans character in "The world according to Garp" and the ultra-classic "Victor / Victoria", with all kinds of crossdressing, homosexuality, lesbianism and bisexuality all rolled into one amazing treat of a movie. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="1738587525587.png"]55452[/ATTACH] The funniest scene in a comedy ever.[/CENTER] And now, guess who I found in a "wink-and-miss" appearance in "Tootsie"? [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="1738585729443.png"]55445[/ATTACH] Yesss, it´s HER!!! The April woman digging for some gold in one party at about 50´of the film!! I had no idea and it was my friend who recognized her. Congrats Miss Wilson for appearing in an Oscar-nominated movie!! [/CENTER] PS: The movie is so early 80s that you can´t miss the fact that it represents the world of nighttime soaps as much as the daytime soaps, when everybody stopped doing everything to watch their favorite shows, when actors got "killed" if they asked too much money, and when people talked about the plots the next morning. Anecdotically, the Spanish-dubbed version features an homage to "Dallas" in the scene where Murray mentions that Indian Americans are as American as the Barrymores and Danny and Marie Osmond. In Spanish, he says "and Pamela and J.R. from "Dallas" (since nobody knew the Osmonds here). Seriously. [/QUOTE]
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