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
Tammie Brown Got To Do With It?" and "Tootsie" as major inspirations for his drag. Tammie Brown Tammie Brown is the stage name of Keith Glen Schubert (born September 15, 1980), an American drag performer and recording artist. Brown was a fixture in the Southern California Drag scene, before appearing on the first season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" and "". Keith Glen Schubert was born on September 15, 1980, in Corpus Christi, Texas. He first started dressing in drag during high school, in theatre productions of "Grease" as Cha Cha and "Into the Woods" as Cinderella's Stepmother. Tammie Brown first appeared on