Evelyn: Nothing here has worked out quite as I expected.
Muriel: Most things don't. But sometimes what happens instead is the good stuff.

Madge's Son-in-Law: How many husbands have you had?
Madge Hardcastle: Including my own?

Norman Cousins: [eulogizing] His relationship with all his pupils was founded on respect. We respected him, and he respected that.

Jean: Are you insane? Avoid all food not from a reputable vendor. It'll be washed in impure water.
Douglas Ainslie: It's just a sandwich.
Jean: Oh, marvelous. Then I'll have ham, cheese, and streptococcus. Or perhaps bacteria, lettuce, and tomato.
Douglas Ainslie: Would you like some of this? I believe it's called aloo ka paratha.
Muriel: No, if I can't pronounce it, I don't want to eat it.

Norman Cousins: This is it.
Madge Hardcastle: You're not worried about thre danger of having sex at your age?
Norman Cousins: If she dies, she dies.

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Happy Birthday, Dear YOKO!

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Фильм слабенький. Но наблюдать за Салли Филд, Джеймсом Кааном и Джеффом Бриджесом было одно удовольствие!



Reportedly, actor James Caan hated working on this movie so much that he did not make another picture for five years until Gardens of Stone.

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Have you ever heard more bullshit or drivel coming from somebody who is not even the president?

Bernie LaPlante:

You remember when I said how I was gonna explain about life, buddy? Well the thing about life is, it gets weird.
People are always talking ya about truth. Everybody always knows what the truth is,

like it was toilet paper or somethin', and they got a supply in the closet.
But what you learn, as you get older, is there ain't no truth. All there is is bullshit, pardon my vulgarity here. Layers of it.
One layer of bullshit on top of another. And what you do in life like when you get older is,
you pick the layer of bullshit that you prefer and that's your bullshit, so to speak.

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Какой прекрасный, добрый, великолепный фильм!
Сколько его смотрю, все время смеюсь и плачу! Какой трогательный фильм!
В такие моменты я понимаю, как же я люблю хорошее кино.
Сидни Поллак снимал хорошие фильмы с легендарными актерами.
И хоть совместная работа с Дастином была у них напряженная, это не помешало создать им вместе его лучший фильм, на мой взгляд.

Оох, и еще я очень-очень люблю Дастина!
В этом фильме вообще замечательные актеры - милейшая Джессика Лэнг, Билл Мюррей, и все, все, все.



Чудесная музыка композитора Дэйва Грузина!
Я его имя часто встречаю в фильмах того периода.



[Dorothy Michaels' screen test]
Rita: I'd like to make her look a little more attractive, how far can you pull back?
Cameraman: How do you feel about Cleveland?
Rita: Knock it off.

Michael Dorsey: I don't believe in hell. I believe in UNEMPLOYMENT, but not hell.

Dorothy Michaels: Oh I know what y'all really want is some gross, caricature of a woman to prove some idiotic point
that power makes a woman masculine, or masculine women are ugly.
Well shame on you for letting a man do that, or any man that does that.
That means you, dear. Miss Marshall. Shame on you, you macho shit head.

Michael Dorsey: She thinks I'm gay, i told her about Julie and she thinks I'm gay!
George Fields: Julie thinks your gay?
Michael Dorsey: No, my friend Sandy.
George Fields: Sleep with her, and she'll...
Michael Dorsey: I slept with her once she's still thinks I'm gay!
George Fields: Oh... thats no good, Michael.

читать дальшеThough the working title for the film was originally "Would I Lie to You?", Dustin Hoffman suggested the title "Tootsie." Tootsie was the name of his mother's dog.

While being profiled for "The Directors" series, Sydney Pollack claimed that Dustin Hoffman refused to continue working on the film unless Pollack played his agent.
Pollack refused up until Hoffman's agent Michael Ovitz intervened and Pollack reconsidered.
He later agreed to play the role. The scenes featuring Hoffman's and Pollack's characters were meant to reflect
what happened behind the scenes between the two when they would argue.
In fact, Hoffman and Pollack quarreled so furiously during filming that they never did another film together;
while they did discuss mending fences in order to work on Rain Man, ultimately Pollack declined the director's spot for that film, leading to the hiring of Barry Levinson.

According to Dustin Hoffman, he wanted Bill Murray to play his friend while director Sydney Pollack disagreed.

Bill Murray agreed to omit his name from the opening credits to prevent audiences expecting a "Bill Murray" movie along the lines of Фрикадельки or Caddyshack.

All of Bill Murray's lines were improvised.

Geena Davis's film debut.

The character of Dorothy originally did not speak with a Southern accent,
but in doing research Dustin Hoffman discovered his voice fell more closely into the range of female pitch while doing the accent.

Well known transvestite actor Holly Woodlawn was hired by the producers of Tootsie to coach actor Dustin Hoffman
in his role as 'Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels' in the intricate art of being a man acting as a woman in films as he prepared for this role.

The crew would only give bad news to Dustin Hoffman if he was in drag. They said he was "much nicer as a woman".

Writer Larry Gelbart once said that he did not meet the other writers on this project until they were on stage together collecting their awards.

Dustin Hoffman first got the idea to do this film while working on Kramer vs. Kramer.
He felt his character in that film had to be both a mother and a father, so he started thinking about how to play a man and a woman.
Several scripts, several writers and a few directors later, this was the result.

In the first scene where Michael Dorsey is waking up to dress as Dorothy, there is a picture of Dustin Hoffman's mother next to the alarm clock.

The bit where Jessica Lange's character reaches behind her and accidentally grabs a corn cob instead of the phone was a genuine mistake in blocking.
The director decided to leave it in.

The movie's line "I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man. Know what I mean?"
was voted as the #61 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.

The movie's line "That is one nutty hospital." was voted as the #44 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.

The greatest challenge for Dustin Hoffman was getting Dorothy's voice right - he reportedly received help and coaching from Meryl Streep
(with whom he had just co-starred in Kramer vs. Kramer). He would read the role of Blance DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire and she would offer feedback.

Pollack was the director, Hoffman insisted, he would convince Hoffman to wear a dress.
Pollack still refused to play the part, so Hoffman sent him red roses every day with the note, "Please be my agent. Love, Dorothy" until Pollack agreed to take the role.

Dustin Hoffman allegedly tried out his role as Dorothy by passing himself off as his daughter's Aunt Dorothy at her parent's evening at school.
His performance was so strong he actually convinced the teachers present. They never suspected.

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Отличная новость !
Англичане снимут телевизионный фильм про Элизабет Тейлор и Ричарда Бартона.
И главную роль в нём исполнит удивительная HELENA BONHAM CARTER!
Well, кому как не ей я полностью доверяю роль такой знаменитой актрисы.
И мне нравится, что наконец Тейлор сыграет взрослая и также немного эксцентричная женщина.

Прошу прощения, но это якобы экранизация, вышедшая недавно, оскорбила меня, конечно, выбором на главную роль.
Что общего? Вы куда полезли? На кого замахнулись?
Британская экранизация certainly родилась именно после возмутительного провала последнего проекта.

Вообщем, я рада очень новой экранизации.
Мне бы очень хотелось бы узнать о такой красивой паре как Бартон & Тэйлор.
Роль Ричарда исполнит Доминик Уэст. Я его видела, вообщем неплохо.
Но такая харизма, которая была у Бартона … OMG!
Я бы нашла бы кого-нибудь еще на эту роль ... но вообщем неплохо. Will see how it goes …

Nearly three months after Lifetime aired its attempt at an Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton romance biopic, BBC 4 has announced its own original movie about the famous couple.
Unlike Lifetime, the British TV channel has opted to cast a less-publicity-stunt-ish lead: twice-Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter,

who will play the iconic beauty opposite BAFTA-winning actor Dominic West.

Like the campy Liz & Dick, the similarly titled Burton and Taylor will chronicle the famous couple’s mercurial relationship,

specifically when the pair starred in a 1983 Broadway production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives seven years after their second divorce.
The three-act play ironically centers on a divorced couple who realize that they still have feelings for each other while honeymooning with their respective new spouses at the same hotel.
At the time, many critics dismissed the production, which paid Taylor and Burton $1 million each, as a transparent attempt to profit off their famed relationship.
Audiences, meanwhile, wondered if the collaboration—which was their first onstage—would spur them to reunite.

Since the casting announcement, Bonham Carter has made it clear that she will not be trying to impersonate Taylor in a superficial sense.
“I look nothing like her for a start,” she told the Daily Mail, “but it’s about capturing the essence of [Taylor and Burton] at a particular time . . .
There’s no one comparable around now.” Bonham Carter, who is 46, added,

“Elizabeth was fifty-one, still every inch a star, still beautiful and they still needed each other but this was professional.”

The 90-minute Burton and Taylor is expected to premiere this fall in the U.K.

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Очень anti-Yoko направленная документальная передача. Не все так однозначно.
Люди почему то считают, что они лучше знают, что у Джона было на душе, и как ему лучше было бы, и с кем бы ему было бы лучше.
А человек просто влюбился. Нашел себя в глазах женщины, которого его в принципе спасла от тотального саморазрушения.
Меня особенно омерзила его сводная сестра - сидит неряха-сноб такая с грязными волосами, не принимающая его идеи.
И она удивляется, почему Джон перестал с ней общаться?
Несет просто ересь, когда спрашивают её точку зрения на что-то.

Порадовал меня один чувак, Alistair Taylor - man no-bullshit.
Его короткие, но такие верные мысли было особенно приятно слушать после сестренской лабуды.

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И вновь всплывает моя страстная любовь к Дэй-Льюису.

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В очередной раз поражаюсь, насколько мало фильмов у Дэй-Льиса.
Конечно, практически все они хорошие, а он великолепен везде.
Так что можно похвалить человека, за то что он разборчив не и не разбрасывается.
Но черт возьми, это преступление против человечества, чтобы ТАКОЙ актер как Дэниэл снимался раз в три года в одном фильме!
Вот если бы он каким-то образом приехал бы на премьеру в Россию, я бы ему так и сказал бы.
Мол, пожалуйста подари нам еще побольше своих ролей, ведь ты такой замечательный актер!

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