Making Tootsie: A Film Study With Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack - Softcover

Dworkin, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937858196 ISBN 13: 9780937858196

Publisher: Newmarket Pr, 1983

Synopsis

Describes the experiences of the actor, Dustin Hoffman, and the director, Sydney Pollack, during the production of the motion picture, Tootsie

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From the Back Cover

In 1982, two superbly talented and driven men—director Sydney Pollack and actor Dustin Hoffman—collaborated to create what became an enduring classic: a movie about a serious, out-of-work actor who takes on the challenge of playing a woman in a TV soap opera and becomes a better man for it.

Hoffman had already dedicated four years to the comedy. Pollack was hot off of Absence of Malice when he chose the project, which had lost two earlier directors, had no final guiding script at the start of production, and was the butt of many Hollywood bad jokes.

As the only journalist Pollack and Columbia Pictures permitted on the set and in the editing room, Susan Dworkin, a playwright, award-winning documentary writer, and Ms. magazine contributing editor, conducted in-depth interviews not only with its director and star but also with the costume designer, the film editors, costars Teri Garr, Bill Murray, and Dabney Coleman, and many others. In Making ‘Tootsie,’ Dworkin captures their voices while describing how the movie became an award-winning box office sensation and the classic motion picture that the American Film Institute rates as number two on its list of the 100 Funniest American Movies of All Time.

About the Author

Susan Dworkin was the only writer who was daily on the set during most of the filming of Tootsie. She is the author of the novels Stolen Goods and The Book of Candy, the memoir The Nazi Officer's Wife with Edith Hahn Beer (Morrow), the social history Miss America, 1945 (Newmarket), and the Peabody Award-winning TV documentary She's Nobody's Baby: American Women in the 20th Century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Newmarket Pr
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937858196
• ISBN 13: 9780937858196
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120