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Tootsie and Six Degrees of Separation

of the film, and the screenplay was developed by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal. Hoffman wanted to produce the film and have final say in how it would be edited. However, once he brought Sydney Pollack on board as director, the two disagreed, sometimes vehemently, about many aspects of the film. Joseph M. Boggs reports that Hoffman "finally worked out a bargain with the director, giving Pollack the ultimate power of 'final cut.' But Hoffman maintained script and cast approval as well as the right to go into the cutting room" (261). Pollack therefore is the primary artist in what is always a fairly collaborative art.

Pollack's creation is a tremendously satisfying and entertaining film, in large part because it is aesthetically complete. One of the functions of art is to provide a semblance of reality that offers the kind of completion of experience that real life cannot. As Monroe C. Beardsley describes it, "An artwork is an arrangement of conditions intended to be capable of affording an experience with marke

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