God rest his soul, yes he was a brilliant director, good actor and his scenes with Michael/Dorothy were hilarious! My best friend and I saw this movie 3 times while it was shown in theaters and it was funnier every time we went! It will always be the best comedy I have ever seen!
He ll be back! (In Youth&Vigor )....John 5:28. Job 14:14,15. GOD PROMISES US A PEACEFUL &LOVING WORLD FOR ALL .... WHO TRULY DESIRE THAT!... ITS A GUARANTEE!.... (Its Coming Soon BY GOD S KINGDOM) Matthew 6:33..... Search it out through studying WHY DO GOD "ALLOW" SUFFERING?
Late one night at Dan Tana's, this was maybe 15 years ago, I was sharing a nightcap with Dabney at a corner table....at some point the conversation turned to "Tootsie", and he told me some interesting stories....all involved thought that they were in a bomb....he recalled shooting a scene with Jessica Lange, the two getting into a cab, I think outside the Plaza, no dialogue, just the cab pulling away....in the cab he and Lange had a "can you believe we're in this turkey" conversation, and what it could mean to their careers....after filming Coleman said he was in Syd Pollack's office, Pollack was distraught and near tears, he thought the picture could ruin him....Coleman pointed out that this was just after "Heaven's Gate" ended Cimino's career, and just a few years removed from Billy Friedkin costing Universal a fortune on "Sorcerer", so directors were terrified of losing money....."Tootsie" famously came together in the editing....Pollack and Coleman were old friends from The Neighborhood Playhouse where they studied under Sanford Meisner in the late '50's, Pollack quickly turned to directing and cast Dabney in some of his early roles....Coleman told me he considered Pollack the smartest man he ever knew.
I had a similar experience with an Irish theatre actor three years ago when I was doing drama in transition year in secondary school and he told me that he did a short lived documentary series with the comedian Ardal O'Hanlon who played Dougal in Father Ted, and he said that it was short-lived presumably because of how shit the editing was. If it was something like Who Killed Captain Alex's editing without the understandable excuse, then I wouldn't be surprised seeing as how lazy editors get when doing shit.
@@spb7883 I knew him as a drinking buddy at Dan Tana's restaurant/bar on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood.....when he was not working the next day he often closed the place, and there was a core group of nightcrawlers (including the late Harry Dean Stanton) who shared an after-hours cocktail....when they finally kicked us out of Tana's the group usually headed to a speakeasy in the African-American neighborhoods near downtown L.A.
I worked for over a decade at NYC's Hammacher Schlemmer on the sales floor. One evening Sydney came in to purchase a couple of items. His team in California had purchased some items with me over the phone so I had some familiarity on what he liked. Tootsie is one of my favorite films along with other Pollack works. It was just he and I in the store and I was able to have a brief encounter and asked him what his next project was. He said he planned on doing a small film with George Clooney (Michael Clayton) and some of the filming would be not far from the midtown location we were at. I never saw him again as he was diagnosed with cancer. He was a big talent behind and in front of the camera.
I was long term caregiver for the wondrous, lovely, fabulous Sonja Packer, who was in an assisted living facility who provided the skills for Dustin Hoffman to perform as a woman/lady in the movie, TOOTSIE.
Serai3 That was part of his 'becoming a better man' though. You have to remember he spent a good chunk of the film criticizing Dabney Coleman's character for the way he treats women and isnt faithful to Jessica Lange's character only to find that the guy was straddling along with his lies towards Jessica for the same reason Dustin was lying to Terri. Its almost like a mirror image. He was criticizing someone who he now realizes is no different from himself. And of course Dustin decides to finally be honest and tell Terri the truth but she of course gets hysterical and rants which is why he was lying to begin with!
Ah, I'm not citing Terri's character as why he doesn't tell the truth, he did later, so it was in him. He was her friend after all. He chose not to. And IMHO Terri should have won the Oscar, her performance was fabulous !! I agree with your take on Michael's same character flaw as it mirrored Dabney's. Pollack knew what he was doing !! (2021- 4 yrs later, but I've just been watching the AFI archives lol)
I believe his Oscar was for Out of Africa; but Tootsie is the better movie, and a much better showcase for his skills as a director. Again - Tootsie and company lost to Gandhi at the Oscars but we all know which film will be remembered.
A GREAT TALENTED DIRECTOR //ANOTHER GREAT GONE TOO SOON//THIS WAS A GREAT COMEDY BACK I THE GREAT 80S..I REMEMBER GOING TO THE MOVIES WHEN I LIVED IN HOUSTON TX....ALSO OTHER GREAT MOVIES CAME OUT THAT YEAR/THE FIRST INDIANA JONES /E.T./BLUE THUNDER/HIGH ROAD TO CHINA //OCTOPUSSY-JAMES BOND///
I miss a great director, actor, writer, creative person when they've gone. They would have continued to be a force in art and given so much more. And, a PERSON died, so that is paramount. He did Tootsie and Out of Africa, showing his range. Miss him.
This along with Some Like it Hot Mrs.Doubtfire Lazy Susan Are my favorite comedies. I guess I like women in dresses. 🤷🏿♀️ This came out the year I was supposed to graduate high school. Jessica Lange has always been my favorite female actor she’s like a cross between Marilyn Monroe & Geraldine Page, otherworldly beautiful, talented, very influenced by her mime training in Paris. She and Sam were sexy and perfect together so devastating they broke up I think due to his drinking and then his death from Lou Gehrig’s. Jessica is unrecognizable now because of all her stretching and Botox, I don’t get it, does she not see herself? Sidney was hysterical in this, genius director. Dustin Hoffman still the most talented actor, he’s a chameleon. If the allegations are true, I still feel the same about his acting. No pass for him, but, his father was brutal towards him. This is a violent terrible world for the animals and earth thanks to non-vegans and all the great artists dead or dying. I’m happy to pass myself. I’ve watched Tootsie at least 40 times through the years. One of the few things that makes me smile. 😞💔💚
Oh, I get that part. It was the way he treated her later that rankled me. He couldn't be nice and let her down easy. No, he had to string her along with lies. And it's not like she was whining or crying after they slept together - she was quite calm and logical when she said she'd rather he just own up and tell her he didn't want a relationship, but he wouldn't do it. That never sat right with me.
I personally never found Hoffman believable as a woman in Tootsie, and the notion that multiple men could possibly find Dorothy Michaels attractive is absurd. The whole premise of the film is not believable, but it's otherwise so well done - so well acted and so funny - that suspending disbelief is rewarded. So I still love the film despite those flaws.
@@madeleinegrayson8372 That makes sense to me. Dorothy isn't so unattractive that nobody could ever be attracted to her - it's that in a period of a few weeks, two men fall madly in love with her within a few days of meeting her. But that's part of what makes the film funny.
I thought the funniest moments were when he would react to situations as a guy might, or say things a guy might, but as a woman. So, the affect was to wonder why women do not react to situations like that.
some of it is in the way women were not taken as seriously, as important in society and a lot more feminist reasons. Were raised different, treated different, etc. Glad that because of films like Tootsie, a mirror was held up and a point made.
I really love this movie, but my sticking point with it was always that, despite the lesson being learning about being a better man by how he's treated as a woman, he treats his friend (played by Teri Garr) rather shabbily and without sensitivity, deceiving her and then throwing her over for the "prettier" girl. Still a wonderful film, though, and a lovely performance.
I don't think it's really that Lange is the "prettier" girl, and he only slept with Garr's character once - almost by accident - in the movie. He admits to the shabby treatment when they're talking in the kitchen, and it's obvious (at least to me) that their friendship will continue in the future.
To me Sydney Pollack looks scary. Like he is really angry. And despite that smile, could shoot somebody in the next few seconds. To me, his head looks like it is going to explode. I would hate having him for a boss, or a parole officer. Because he looks like he is going to snap. BUT if you keep your eyes closed, he has a gentle calm voice, like every thing is going to be ok, because every thing is ok - almost maternal, or terribly naive. If I was going to cast Sydney Pollack in a movie, it would be as President Lyndon Johnson, especially during the Vietnam years, when LBJ was dealing with Civil Rights, and the Protest Movement, while meeting with young war veterans and their families - the anger, and the calm, you see? "Tomatoes don't sit down!!" .. "We, SHALL overcome". .. Hmm, what's with the afro? Or is his hair naturally curly?
Not a big point. Some people have a "resting face" that is more serious and he was talking about this subject seriously. From every account, he was a wonderful person.
Funny you should mention this, because I've always felt the same. It's like there's a lot of repressed anger about him and it's only him being polite that stops him from telling you what he really thinks about you. Like he don't suffer fools gladly and in a moment he will tell you straight how much of a fool you are and how little time he has to suffer from it.
Such a brilliant director, and actually quite a good actor. His own scenes in "Tootsie" were hilarious.
Brilliant in both. Very, very missed though.
God rest his soul, yes he was a brilliant director, good actor and his scenes with Michael/Dorothy were hilarious! My best friend and I saw this movie 3 times while it was shown in theaters and it was funnier every time we went! It will always be the best comedy I have ever seen!
Give double vodka right away...
"You were a tomato! A tomato doesn't have logic!"
this man was a genius..I sure miss him
Me2
Mer Xmas & hap 2020 to you & yours
You got that straight!
Such a giant, based on talent and character. Loved his work and yes, I found him attractive !!
I miss him too…
A brilliant brilliant film.,.. loved every minute of it... every second. Dustin Hoffman is such a good actor, and Sydney a great director.
This film, Dustin's acting and his direction were perfection.
timeless. actually got better over time
I love Sydney. Miss him being on the planet.. :(
He ll be back! (In Youth&Vigor )....John 5:28. Job 14:14,15. GOD PROMISES US A PEACEFUL &LOVING WORLD FOR ALL .... WHO TRULY DESIRE THAT!... ITS A GUARANTEE!.... (Its Coming Soon BY GOD S KINGDOM) Matthew 6:33..... Search it out through studying WHY DO GOD "ALLOW" SUFFERING?
I did a 1-1 sit down interview with SP when I worked at Sony, a truly intuitive director and wonderful conversationalist
My favorite movie of all time.....see it over & over again!!!!
Late one night at Dan Tana's, this was maybe 15 years ago, I was sharing a nightcap with Dabney at a corner table....at some point the conversation turned to "Tootsie", and he told me some interesting stories....all involved thought that they were in a bomb....he recalled shooting a scene with Jessica Lange, the two getting into a cab, I think outside the Plaza, no dialogue, just the cab pulling away....in the cab he and Lange had a "can you believe we're in this turkey" conversation, and what it could mean to their careers....after filming Coleman said he was in Syd Pollack's office, Pollack was distraught and near tears, he thought the picture could ruin him....Coleman pointed out that this was just after "Heaven's Gate" ended Cimino's career, and just a few years removed from Billy Friedkin costing Universal a fortune on "Sorcerer", so directors were terrified of losing money....."Tootsie" famously came together in the editing....Pollack and Coleman were old friends from The Neighborhood Playhouse where they studied under Sanford Meisner in the late '50's, Pollack quickly turned to directing and cast Dabney in some of his early roles....Coleman told me he considered Pollack the smartest man he ever knew.
Great story, fascinating insight - thanks. So interesting how the editing process can often make or break a film's success.
I had a similar experience with an Irish theatre actor three years ago when I was doing drama in transition year in secondary school and he told me that he did a short lived documentary series with the comedian Ardal O'Hanlon who played Dougal in Father Ted, and he said that it was short-lived presumably because of how shit the editing was. If it was something like Who Killed Captain Alex's editing without the understandable excuse, then I wouldn't be surprised seeing as how lazy editors get when doing shit.
How did you know Dabney Coleman??
@@spb7883 I knew him as a drinking buddy at Dan Tana's restaurant/bar on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood.....when he was not working the next day he often closed the place, and there was a core group of nightcrawlers (including the late Harry Dean Stanton) who shared an after-hours cocktail....when they finally kicked us out of Tana's the group usually headed to a speakeasy in the African-American neighborhoods near downtown L.A.
I worked for over a decade at NYC's Hammacher Schlemmer on the sales floor. One evening Sydney came in to purchase a couple of items. His team in California had purchased some items with me over the phone so I had some familiarity on what he liked. Tootsie is one of my favorite films along with other Pollack works. It was just he and I in the store and I was able to have a brief encounter and asked him what his next project was. He said he planned on doing a small film with George Clooney (Michael Clayton) and some of the filming would be not far from the midtown location we were at. I never saw him again as he was diagnosed with cancer. He was a big talent behind and in front of the camera.
I was long term caregiver for the wondrous, lovely, fabulous
Sonja Packer, who was in an assisted living facility who provided the skills for Dustin Hoffman to perform as a woman/lady in the movie, TOOTSIE.
i would have loved to have met him..one of my HERO PEOPLE so amazing talented and a great Director
One of my favorite directors. Let's not forget the brilliant screenplay
This is one hell of an intelligent guy.
Brilliant actor. I miss him on the big screen. He could always carry a scene.
I love Sydney Pollack
Watch this talented genius in a hospital scene with Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis in "Death becomes her", so brilliant! RIP.
One of a greatest movie in US history.
This man made Jeremiah Johnson, Yakuza, three days of the condor and tootsie....absolute genius
Sir….I miss you so much!
this man directed the way were were for gods sake i think no one will ever be on that level and so talented diverse and so down to earth RIP
Really miss Sydney, such a great body of work...!
god bless him he was great in those scenes with mr hoffman it was like a neil simon thiing thats what i thught
Well, "Tootsie" co-writer Larry Gelbart, as well as Neil Simon, both wrote for Sid Caesar.
‘Tootsie’ is a perfect - yes - perfect film. Yeah, I said it!
Great movie! In the discussion for the best comedy ever.
Serai3 That was part of his 'becoming a better man' though. You have to remember he spent a good chunk of the film criticizing Dabney Coleman's character for the way he treats women and isnt faithful to Jessica Lange's character only to find that the guy was straddling along with his lies towards Jessica for the same reason Dustin was lying to Terri. Its almost like a mirror image. He was criticizing someone who he now realizes is no different from himself. And of course Dustin decides to finally be honest and tell Terri the truth but she of course gets hysterical and rants which is why he was lying to begin with!
Ah, I'm not citing Terri's character as why he doesn't tell the truth, he did later, so it was in him. He was her friend after all. He chose not to. And IMHO Terri should have won the Oscar, her performance was fabulous !! I agree with your take on Michael's same character flaw as it mirrored Dabney's. Pollack knew what he was doing !! (2021- 4 yrs later, but I've just been watching the AFI archives lol)
Teri.
I believe his Oscar was for Out of Africa; but Tootsie is the better movie, and a much better showcase for his skills as a director. Again - Tootsie and company lost to Gandhi at the Oscars but we all know which film will be remembered.
I wonder if there were plans for Tootsie 2?
he just knew how to do it How a woman is treated and a man becoming a better person as a woman
A GREAT TALENTED DIRECTOR //ANOTHER GREAT GONE TOO SOON//THIS WAS A GREAT COMEDY BACK I THE GREAT 80S..I REMEMBER GOING TO THE MOVIES WHEN I LIVED IN HOUSTON TX....ALSO OTHER GREAT MOVIES CAME OUT THAT YEAR/THE FIRST INDIANA JONES /E.T./BLUE THUNDER/HIGH ROAD TO CHINA //OCTOPUSSY-JAMES BOND///
I miss a great director, actor, writer, creative person when they've gone. They would have continued to be a force in art and given so much more. And, a PERSON died, so that is paramount. He did Tootsie and Out of Africa, showing his range. Miss him.
Pollock was so goddamned smart. His career was a gift to American cinema.
This along with
Some Like it Hot
Mrs.Doubtfire
Lazy Susan
Are my favorite comedies.
I guess I like women in dresses. 🤷🏿♀️
This came out the year I was supposed to graduate high school.
Jessica Lange has always been my favorite female
actor she’s like a cross between Marilyn Monroe & Geraldine Page, otherworldly beautiful, talented, very influenced by her mime training in Paris.
She and Sam were sexy and perfect together so devastating they broke up I think due to his drinking and then his death from Lou Gehrig’s.
Jessica is unrecognizable now because of all her stretching and Botox, I don’t get it, does she not see herself?
Sidney was hysterical in this, genius director.
Dustin Hoffman still the most talented actor, he’s a chameleon. If the allegations are true, I still feel the same about his acting. No pass for him, but, his father was brutal towards him.
This is a violent terrible world for the animals and earth thanks to non-vegans and
all the great artists dead or dying.
I’m happy to pass myself.
I’ve watched Tootsie at least 40 times through the years. One of the few things that makes me smile.
😞💔💚
fascinating director
Oh, I get that part. It was the way he treated her later that rankled me. He couldn't be nice and let her down easy. No, he had to string her along with lies. And it's not like she was whining or crying after they slept together - she was quite calm and logical when she said she'd rather he just own up and tell her he didn't want a relationship, but he wouldn't do it. That never sat right with me.
it was his character flaw, of course, and he did evolve.
Heh heh heh!!!! I can't stop laughing..... Brilliant acting by all!!!!
I personally never found Hoffman believable as a woman in Tootsie, and the notion that multiple men could possibly find Dorothy Michaels attractive is absurd. The whole premise of the film is not believable, but it's otherwise so well done - so well acted and so funny - that suspending disbelief is rewarded. So I still love the film despite those flaws.
I worked with a legal secretary who was a dead ringer for Dorothy. She had multiple in her life, lol.
@@madeleinegrayson8372 That makes sense to me. Dorothy isn't so unattractive that nobody could ever be attracted to her - it's that in a period of a few weeks, two men fall madly in love with her within a few days of meeting her. But that's part of what makes the film funny.
I thought the funniest moments were when he would react to situations as a guy might, or say things a guy might, but as a woman. So, the affect was to wonder why women do not react to situations like that.
Kelly KitKat I
some of it is in the way women were not taken as seriously, as important in society and a lot more feminist reasons. Were raised different, treated different, etc. Glad that because of films like Tootsie, a mirror was held up and a point made.
I really love this movie, but my sticking point with it was always that, despite the lesson being learning about being a better man by how he's treated as a woman, he treats his friend (played by Teri Garr) rather shabbily and without sensitivity, deceiving her and then throwing her over for the "prettier" girl. Still a wonderful film, though, and a lovely performance.
I don't think it's really that Lange is the "prettier" girl, and he only slept with Garr's character once - almost by accident - in the movie. He admits to the shabby treatment when they're talking in the kitchen, and it's obvious (at least to me) that their friendship will continue in the future.
That was the part about him learning to be a better man.
He didn't love Sandy. And she didn't love him.
@@EGC316 And that's an excuse to treat someone like shit? Jesus, who the hell raised you??
I always liked being called honey and other things at work or any place. Maybe because I was so sweet that they called me nice names.
It's just they were too lazy to learn your name
I'm just here for the "underrated" comments that people inevitably post about this film
It’s the only movie where I love Dustin Hoffman. I’ve always found him overacting, but here everything was more than perfect❤
All right, that's it. No more brown blotter acid for you.
yet Sydney Pollack, he has to be sneaky and undermining to get to that point.
It's called subtext
To me Sydney Pollack looks scary.
Like he is really angry. And despite that
smile, could shoot somebody in the next
few seconds. To me, his head looks like it
is going to explode. I would hate having him
for a boss, or a parole officer. Because he looks like
he is going to snap. BUT if you keep your eyes
closed, he has a gentle calm voice, like every
thing is going to be ok, because every thing is
ok - almost maternal, or terribly naive.
If I was going to cast Sydney Pollack in a
movie, it would be as President Lyndon Johnson,
especially during the Vietnam years, when LBJ was
dealing with Civil Rights, and the Protest Movement,
while meeting with young war veterans and their
families - the anger, and the calm, you see?
"Tomatoes don't sit down!!" ..
"We, SHALL overcome". ..
Hmm, what's with the afro?
Or is his hair naturally curly?
Weirdly enough check him out in Eyes Wide Shut I think you're onto something there
Not a big point. Some people have a "resting face" that is more serious and he was talking about this subject seriously. From every account, he was a wonderful person.
Funny you should mention this, because I've always felt the same. It's like there's a lot of repressed anger about him and it's only him being polite that stops him from telling you what he really thinks about you. Like he don't suffer fools gladly and in a moment he will tell you straight how much of a fool you are and how little time he has to suffer from it.
Sir….I miss you so much!