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Farm Film Celebrity Blow Up: Dustin Hoffman
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The setup
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The premise
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On Farm Film Celebrity Blow-Up, hosts Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok welcome movie star Dustin Hoffman while warning viewers that he has a reputation for being difficult. Hoffman (Martin Short) arrives in a dress, wig and glasses as Dorothy Michaels, explaining that playing a woman in Tootsie has made him deeply sensitive to women's lives, to the point of envying their ability to have children. The hosts have no patience for his reflections and keep steering him back to the only thing their show cares about. Hoffman insists on preparing first, weighs whether to explode as a man or as a woman, and finally goes up in smoke. The hosts grumble that he took his time but call it one of their best blow-ups, promise another celebrity guest for next week and sign off with their usual blessing.
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Highly quotable.
No man understands how vulnerable a woman can feel unless he's a consummate actor like myself.
I would like to blow up as a woman.
May the good Lord take a liking to you and blow you up real soon.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
This episode aired on 28 January 1983, about six weeks after Tootsie opened in American theaters on 17 December 1982.
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