Watched Tootsie this week.

I hadn't seen this movie in fifteen years.  Zack had never seen it.  I told him he had to watch it with me, as it was a classic film and he's always getting on Josie for not having seen The Princess Bride enough times to recognize all the quotes.  So we watched Tootsie together.

First of all, it's hard to believe the movie is twenty five years old.  I say that because I remember when it came out like it was yesterday.  I remember seeing the first photos of Dustin Hoffman in drag an how shocked we all were to realize it was him.  I remember how funny and what a hit it was.

On the other hand, seeing the hair and clothes from 1982 make it very easy to believe this artifact is from a previous century. And the attitudes!  It's really hard to remember life before women's empowerment.  I may not have noticed any of this (well, exept for the hair--yikes!) if I hadn't watched this movie with a kid who grew up with Hillary in the white house and lives in the age of transgendered, gay-lesbian-bisexual, transexual, just because it's Tuesday, acceptance. 

Zack didn't think it was funny. 

In fact, he called it the "creepiest movie I've ever seen!" and went to bed half way through it.  He missed the big scenes where Julie thinks Dorothy is a lebian, Julie's Dad thinks Michael is gay, Jeff calls Dorothy a slut and Dorothy comes out of the closet as Michael.  He wouldn't have thought it was funny.  Seeing as he attends a highschool where the librarian used to be a guy who insisted on being called "Stephanie", wore a dress to work and fought for his right to use the ladies room, Zack wouldn't have gotten the joke. 

"Well, nobody's perfect."

As for me, I will always think a man in a dress is good comedy.

 

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