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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Review

"Superb...worth a semester of film school." --David Brown, producer of "Jaws""

"Rarely do we have that complex creative process revealed to us with such sensitivity and insight...Susan Dworkin's "Making Tootsie" is an important study, in a class with Lillian Ross's Picture and John Gregory Dunne's "The Studio". Everyone who seriously cares about movies has to read it." --Digby Diehl, "Los Angeles Herald Examiner"

"Informative, crisply written and worthwhile...an intelligent account of the production of the hit movie (and) a remarkably full portrait of Hoffman the actor." --"Washington Post Book World"

""Making Tootsie" has a sense of making a movie that very few books have." --John Gregory Dunne

""Tootsie" has already achieved a reputation as a classic film comedy. Dworkin's fluid, marvelously detailed book goes a long way toward explaining why." --"People"
" A perceptive and provocative work...Dworkin cuts through the filmmaking process' technical lingo and yet manages to maintain a respect for the dynamics that result in a successful film."--Los Angeles Times

"This fluid, marvelously detailed book goes a long way toward explaining why Tootsie has already achieved a reputation as a classic film comedy...Making Tootsie is more than a pleasing photo-filled souvenir of a popular hit. Books about the making of movies are plentiful; honest ones are rare."--People

"I once said that wanted to be a screenwriter was like wanting to be a co-pilot. Ms. Dworkin captures that perfectly...Making Tootsie has a sense of making a movie that very few books have."--John Gregory Dunne

"A stunning job of research, observation and reporting."--Larry Gelbart, co-writer of Tootsie and writer on the M*A*S*H* TV series

"A must for all film buffs [includes] revealing interviews with Hoffman and Pollack as well as a fascinating section on make-up and costumes."--Patricia Bosworth

This fluid, marvelously detailed book goes a long way toward explaining why Tootsie has already achieved a reputation as a classic film comedy Making Tootsie is more than a pleasing photo-filled souvenir of a popular hit. Books about the making of movies are plentiful; honest ones are rare. --People"

A perceptive and provocative work Dworkin cuts through the filmmaking process technical lingo and yet manages to maintain a respect for the dynamics that result in a successful film. --Los Angeles Times"

I once said that wanted to be a screenwriter was like wanting to be a co-pilot. Ms. Dworkin captures that perfectly Making Tootsie has a sense of making a movie that very few books have. --John Gregory Dunne"

A must for all film buffs [includes] revealing interviews with Hoffman and Pollack as well as a fascinating section on make-up and costumes. --Patricia Bosworth"

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.

Edition details

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