{"id":14086,"date":"2015-12-21T07:26:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14086"},"modified":"2015-12-21T07:26:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:26:20","slug":"16-fun-facts-about-tootsie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14086","title":{"rendered":"16 Fun Facts About &#8220;Tootsie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z122115tootsie_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Roger Cormier<\/strong>\u00a0and<b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mental_Floss<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>present\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/72369\/16-fun-facts-about-tootsie\" target=\"_blank\">16 Fun Facts About <em>Tootsie<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my <span style=\"color: #000000;\">favorites<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">13. IT WAS GEENA DAVIS\u2019 FIRST MOVIE.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nDavis landed the role of soap actress April Page despite never having auditioned for any other movie before. &#8220;But I didn&#8217;t know you&#8217;re only supposed to come on the days that you&#8217;re working,&#8221; Davis told The Frame. &#8220;And so I came every day for six weeks, because I thought that was just part of it. I&#8217;d get a chair and put it right next to Sydney Pollack and sit there all day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">14. BILL MURRAY INSISTED ON NOT BEING CREDITED.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nMurray\u2019s contract stipulated that he not be given any billing for the role, and Columbia agreed not to publicize his part in the film, because Murray thought it would be a \u201cfun practical joke\u201dto play. Hoffman insisted on casting Murray as his playwright roommate, even though Pollackwas unfamiliar with his work. Murray improvised most of his lines.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">10. POLLACK AND HOFFMAN HAD LOUD DISAGREEMENTS THROUGHOUT PRODUCTION.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nThe two would go to each other\u2019s trailers, scream at one another, and then do it Pollack&#8217;s way (according to the late director). They had their biggest arguments on Mondays, because they had each separately been working on the script over the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Cormier\u00a0and\u00a0Mental_Floss\u00a0present\u00a016 Fun Facts About Tootsie.\u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 13. IT WAS GEENA DAVIS\u2019 FIRST MOVIE. Davis landed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14087,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14086\/revisions\/14087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}