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

Dworkin, Susan

ISBN 10: 0937858196 / ISBN 13: 9780937858196

Published by Newmarket Pr, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1983

About this Item

A very nice copy of this uncommon title surprisingly difficult to find signed by the author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Tootsie: A Film Study With Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack
• Publisher: Newmarket Pr, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937858196
• ISBN 13: 9780937858196
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed and Inscribed By the Author
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

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

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.