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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: OSCARS '82: Tootsie
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of crossdressing, sexism, gender, sexual harassment.
This week, we’re tackling a movie that’s so recognizable it might be a trope now. Yet somehow, some way, this movie was bound and determined to subvert expectations of an 80’s movie about a man impersonating a woman. It’s doubly impressive that known manipulative, controlling jerk Dustin Hoffman is the central figure of this film. But Sydney Pollack, a man notable on this show for being the best part of a Kubrick movie, w...