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Daily Dialogue – May 27, 2008

“Oh, I know what y’all really want is some gross, caricature of a woman to prove some idiotic point that power makes a woman masculine, or masculine women are ugly. Well shame on you for letting a man do that, or any man that does that. That means you, dear. Miss Marshall. Shame on you, you macho shit head.”

– Dorothy (Dustin Hoffman), Tootsie (1982), written by Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart, story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart

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In honor of director Sydney Pollack.

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