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
TootsieToy Model T open tourer. By the early 1920s the name 'tootsie' was being used as a brand name and "Tootsietoy" was registered as a trade mark in 1924. The 'Tootsie' moniker apparently came from one of the Dowst Brothers' granddaughters, whose name was "Toots" (Waggoner 2007). Tootsietoy made metal prizes for Cracker Jack boxes (Rogers 2009, p. 65), and this success in the 1930s may also have led to Dowst providing cast pieces for the game Monopoly (Strombecker 2004). The company also produced a large assortment of die-cast dollhouse furniture (Scott 2010). In the 1920s trains, cars, trucks, military vehicles,