Dustin Hoffman he made you want to do for him—to give him one." In "Tootsie" (1982), Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera. His co-star was Jessica Lange. "Tootsie" earned ten Academy Award nominations, including Hoffman's fifth nomination. Under direction by Sydney Pollack, Hoffman's role demanded "a steady bombardment of opposites—edgy then funny, romantic then realistic, soft then quivering." To film critic David Denby, Hoffman's character "embodies vulnerability and drive in perfect proportion. He has the knack of making everything he does seem perilous, and so
Larry Gelbart musical." In 1997, Gelbart published his memoir, "Laughing Matters: On Writing M*A*S*H, Tootsie, Oh, God! and a Few Other Funny Things". Gelbart was a contributing blogger at "The Huffington Post", and also was a regular participant on the alt.tv.mash Usenet newsgroup as "Elsig". In 1995, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1974 for "M*A*S*H". In 2002, Gelbart was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Gelbart was diagnosed