Tootsie: Classic or Dud?

Hollywood's innovation is to emasculate comedy's subversive power, and even then Tootsie got a convincing lesbian crush onscreen.

MMG did not posture as socially significant.

mmg was funny all the way through tootsie dies as soon as the wig goes on

referring to OP, "last great studio comedy" is a bizarre statement, given that

1) tootsie has its charms but is by no means great

2) there have been quite a few excellent studio comedies in the past 30+ years. groundhog day is an obvious one that comes to mind.

Murray the star of both

mmg was funny all the way through tootsie dies as soon as the wig goes on

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac),

crazy talk

yeah, dmac doesn't get Hoffdrag

guilty but proud

Sex changes things. I've had relationships where I know a guy, then have sex with, and then I bump into him and he acts like I loaned him money.

guessing Elaine May wrote that line

Yup. She wrote most of Teri Garr's stuff.

the stage musical is imminent! set on Broadway rather than a soap.

The NYT review is almost a rave. "Sparkles with wit"! Only the staging is flat, Jesse Green writes, and they push the feminism a little too hard (who could've predicted).

I did laugh at the summary of the show within the show, a sequel to Romeo & Juliet.