Plot hole: Both Michael Dorsey and his agent, George Fields, would be sued by Southwest General's producers for fraud and breach of contract, and would almost certainly be prosecuted - signing a contract involving financial gain under a phoney name is a very serious offence. A high-powered agent like Fields would realise this was the inevitable outcome of the "Tootsie" charade, and he wouldn't touch it with a bargepole - and Dorsey would be blacklisted by every film and television company in the country.
Tootsie (1982)
1 mistake since 2 Jan '25, 00:03
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman
Ron Carlisle: Take, Tootsie.
Dorothy Michaels: Ron? I have a name it's Dorothy. It's not Tootsie or Toots or Sweetie or Honey or Doll.
Ron Carlisle: Oh, Christ.
Dorothy Michaels: No, just Dorothy. Alan's always Alan, Tom's always Tom and John's always John. I have a name too. It's Dorothy, capital D-O-R-O-T-H-Y.
Trivia: The entire party scene was improvised by Bill Murray.
Question: When this movie was first released in theaters, I vaguely remember a scene where one crewman yelled "go to commercial" and another crewperson said something like "we already had (some big number) commercials, stand-bys..." and other things in the sentence related to a big delay of the show. When this movie was recently on cable, I watched it and never found this scene in it, but remember this in 1982. Was this scene edited out in recent years, or am I mistaking this scene with another movie?
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Answer: No I believe that's from the movie.