#Butch Slater

[jdmorganz]

JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN as Butch Slater Bloody Axe Wound (2024) dir. Matthew John Lawrence

[maritamorgado]

Jeffrey Dean Morgan behind the scenes of his new movie “Bloody Axe Wound”

[crank2006]

butch having scars is a joyous day for me

[eye-of-yelough]

they are not remotely compatible i don’t even think they would have a one night stand. however. i just know the weird sexual tension between slater adaar and leo hawke was palpable‼️

[adaar is so disgusted by hawke it loops back around to being a lil bit horny (also it’s exciting for her, a lesbian qunari, meeting a “woman” almost as tall as her). hawke just wants to brag he bagged the herald of andraste]

[kurczeno]

i watxhed heathers with my friend and he said christian slater looks like a butch lesbian and Now I cant unsee it

[missyourflight]

some stuff i read and watched in june:

taskmaster (s1-5): haven't done an early seasons rewatch in so long, s4 and 5 are basically perfect 2 me. incredible that mark watson manages to be both my favourite type of taskmaster guy (hopelessly despairing) and also nearly won the thing lol. nish forever obviously

silo: got well into this! probably at some point apple will stop throwing millions at sci-fi shows but i'm going to enjoy their folly in the meantime

mission: impossible ii: hadn't seen this one! the weakest of the lot but the john woo of it all is undeniable

mission: impossible iii: PSH outrageously good as the villain, hi keri russell

mission: impossible - ghost protocol: so much fun, especially the sequences where you can see brad bird's animation brain going

mission: impossible - rogue nation: ILSA my beloved, the opera sequence is so gorgeous, no notes!

mission: impossible - fallout: it's good when henry cavill reloads his arms, it's better when tom cruise is sprinting around london rooftops and breaking his ankle etc, my most basic trait is that i Love when they're in london like oooh tate modern. anyway i'm very ready for dead reckoning

asteroid city: the bits about making art really got to me! the vending machines were cool!

joint security area: crash landing on you prepared me for this, blank check weren't lying when they said it was homoerotic, song kang-ho forever etc

dodie smith, the town in bloom: the most delightful narrative voice i've read in Ages and v funny. easy to sell me on 1920s theatrical shenanigans

k patrick, mrs s: So hot and butch, i liked the butch friendship stuff almost more than the sex stuff. more sexy lesbian novels Please

kj charles, the secret lives of country gentlemen: another winner from KJC, my most reliable romantic comfort reads. this time it's smugglers!

alice slater, death of a bookseller: sticky little thriller about being poisoned by true crime, great sense of place, So many pints of dark fruits

laura kay, wild things: bisexual disaster in love with her best friend, tragically very me- and also george russell-coded, god i want to swim in a pond again

SOME STUFF I SAW AT ROCK WERCHTER

the dj on the first nigt who played a mash up of i'm gonna be (500 miles) into temperature and then the 1d cover of one way or another into little lion man (deeply cursed fandom flashbacks etc)

weyes blood with candelabras and glowing hearts and amazing adam curtis projections on the big screen behind her

king princess sending the gay girls of belgium absolutely wild - "you wanna hear a sad lesbian song?"

matty healy is a dickhead but he's very good at being the frontman of the 1975. like if ben whishaw was straight and kind of disgusting

stormzy!!! literally the rain was pouring during blinded by your grace pt 2

mumford and sons - this whole festival was like being borne back ceaseless into the past but the cave still fucks me up, marcus really in his ken marino era, face-wise

PUP - i do believe if this tour doesn't kill you, i will to be a wholly perfect song, they had a trans flag on stage, best vibes of the festival

sigur ros - sometimes you just want to be in a massive barn with thousands of people with your faces turned up in the dark feeling like you're inside the sound somehow

muse - fucking incredible live band still!! every time i'm see them i'm floored by how hot chris the bassist is and then i forget about it and then i see them again and i'm poleaxed etc. they had a tech meltdown during knights of cydonia at the encore so we got showbiz instead!!

christine and the queens - beautiful and terrible as the dawn

jacob collier - asked if we wanted to get funky then put on a special hat, bit george russell-coded in the face

arctic monkeys - sometimes you just want to be in a field with one of your oldest friends singing the songs of your youth!! i love the 70s act actually! there are so many sexy songs on AM!! the skies finally cleared for the beautiful full moon, thank you belgium, good night

[fagrackham]

jd and veronica shouldve been butch femme

[loveisbraveandwild]

2023 books (check out my storygraph for reviews)

january

unbought and unbossed, shirley chisholm

true biz, sara nović

yerba buena, nina lacour

the racism of people who love you, samira mehta

night, elie wiesel

seven says in june, tia williams

the reading list, sara nisha adams

finna, nino cipri

ace, angela chen

nightcrawling, leila mottley

the light we carry, michelle obama

how to resist amazon and why, danny caine

the daughter of auschwitz, tova friedman

kaikeyi, vaishnsvi patel

just as you are, camille kellogg

hijab butch blues, lamya h

february

a guide to just being friends, sophie sullivan

mean baby, selma blair

lavender house, lev ac rosen

loveless, alice oseman

the department of rare books and special collections, eva jurczyk

small game, blair braverman

wash day diaries, jamila rowser

the heartstopper yearbook, alice oseman

yellowface, r.f. kuang

stay true, hua hsu

the school for good mothers, jassamine chan

elatsoe, darcie little badger

under the udala tree, chinelo okparanta

there there, tommy orange

making a scene, constance wu

happy place, emily henry

i have a question for you, rebecca makkai

finding me, viola davis

wow, no thank you, samantha irby

march

lark and kasim start a revolution, kacen callender

mooncakes, suzanne walker

lies we sing to the sea, sarah underwood

the family outing, jessi hempel

dead collections, isaac fellman

ace voices, eris young

the anthropocene review, john green

mad honey, jennifer finney boylan & jody picoult

all my rage, sabaa tahir

hello, molly, molly shannon

fine, rhea ewing

nevada, imogen binnie

super late bloomer, julia kaye

love & other disasters, anita kelly

the boy with a bird in his chest, emme lund

the honeys, ryan lansala

the 57 bus, dashka slater

making love with the land, joshua whitehead

a history of my brief body, billy-ray belcourt

there are trans people here, h. melt

patricia wants to cuddle, samantha allen

babel, r.f. kuang

april

lessons in chemistry, bonnie garmus

ace of spaces, faridah abike-,ymide

the things we do to our friends, heather darwent

deaf utopia, nyle dimarco

black cake, charmaine wilkerson

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda, becky albertalli

the things we couldn't say, jay cole

long black veil, jennifer finney boylan

good talk, mira jacobs

remarkably bright creatures, shelby van pelt

[julez-fiction]

Julez' Top 10 Favorite Movies Between 1990-2000

Ok, here we go! A fitting list for my first blog entry. These are my favorite movies from a great era in time. It was hard to narrow it down to just 10! This list includes multiple genres of movies, but mainly from the crime genre. Some well known, others hidden gems that you might have missed. Another interesting fact about this carefully curated list, the average IMDb score is 8.5/10 and doesn't contain a Rotten Tomatoes score of less than 74%! So rest assured, you are in for a treat. Time to grab the popcorn and enjoy these great movies! 🍿📽

1.) Pulp Fiction

Released: 1994

IMDb: 8.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Crime/Drama

Director: Quintin Tarantino

Synopses:

Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. In this ultra-hip, multi-strand crime movie, their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) ; his actress wife, Mia (Uma Thurman) ; struggling boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) ; master fixer Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel) and a nervous pair of armed robbers, "Pumpkin" (Tim Roth) and "Honey Bunny" (Amanda Plummer).

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2. True Romance

Released: 1994

IMDb: 7.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 93%

Crime/Romance

Director: Tony Scott

Synopsis:

A comic-book nerd and Elvis fanatic Clarence (Christian Slater) and a prostitute named Alabama (Patricia Arquette) fall in love. Clarence breaks the news to her pimp and ends up killing him. He grabs a suitcase of cocaine on his way out thinking it is Alabama's clothing. The two hit the road for California hoping to sell the cocaine, but the mob is soon after them.

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3. The Matrix

Released: 1999

IMDb: 8.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Sci-Fi/Action

Directors: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

Synopsis:

Neo (Keanu Reeves) believes that Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), an elusive figure considered to be the most dangerous man alive, can answer his question -- What is the Matrix? Neo is contacted by Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), a beautiful stranger who leads him into an underworld where he meets Morpheus. They fight a brutal battle for their lives against a cadre of viciously intelligent secret agents. It is a truth that could cost Neo something more precious than his life.

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4. Goodfellas

Released: 1990

IMDb: 8.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Crime / Drama

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis:

A young man grows up in the mob and works very hard to advance himself through the ranks. He enjoys his life of money and luxury, but is oblivious to the horror that he causes. A drug addiction and a few mistakes ultimately unravel his climb to the top. Based on the book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi.

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5. Fight Club

Released: 1999

IMDb: 8.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%

Thriller/ Drama

Director: David Fincher

Synopsis:

Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled in a relationship with a destitute woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter).

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6. Trainspotting

Intro

Released: 1996

IMDb: 8.1/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 91%

Drama/Dark Comedy

Director: Danny Boyle

Synopsis:

Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her debut. Based on the 1993 novel of the same title by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996.

*Synopsis Found of Wikipedia

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A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...

—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>

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7. Casino

Synopsis:

Released: 1995

IMDb: 8.2/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%

Crime / Drama

Director: Martin Scorses

Synopsis:

In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), his ex-hustler wife Ginger (Sharon Stone), her con-artist ex Lester Diamond (James Woods) and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger. Martin Scorsese directs this adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi's book.

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8. Leon: The Professional

Released: 1994

IMDb: 8.5/10

ROTTEN TOMATOES: 74%

Action/ Drama

Director: Luc Besson

Synopsis:

Mathilda (Natalie Portman) is only 12 years old, but is already familiar with the dark side of life: her abusive father stores drugs for corrupt police officers, and her mother neglects her. Léon (Jean Reno), who lives down the hall, tends to his houseplants and works as a hired hitman for mobster Tony (Danny Aiello). When her family is murdered by crooked DEA agent Stansfield (Gary Oldman), Mathilda joins forces with a reluctant Léon to learn his deadly trade and avenge her family's deaths.

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9. The Shawshank Redemption

Released: 1994

IMDb: 9.3/10

ROTTEN TOMATOES: 91%

Drama / Crime

Director: Frank Darabont

Synopsis:

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. It tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money-laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and James Whitmore appear in supporting roles.

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10. Se7en

Released: 1995

IMDb: 8.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 82%

Crime/Drama

Director: David Fincher

Synopsis:

When retiring police Detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) tackles a final case with the aid of newly transferred David Mills (Brad Pitt), they discover a number of elaborate and grizzly murders. They soon realize they are dealing with a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) who is targeting people he thinks represent one of the seven deadly sins. Somerset also befriends Mills' wife, Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), who is pregnant and afraid to raise her child in the crime-riddled city.

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[andrevasims]

Surfer Dude Names

I was looking to name a sim inspired by the archetypal beach-goer with wavy sunbleached hair who looks like they say “dude” every 5 seconds, you know the type... anyways I wasn’t really finding what I wanted, so I ended up making this list by taking names that stuck out to me from movies about surfing, and the Beach Party movie genre because apparently that was a thing... there’s also a bunch of real-life professional surfer names, soooo yeah

1960s Beach Party Movie Names

Augie Poole Beard Biff Big Deal McPherson Big Drag Big Drop Big Jaw Harris Big Lunk Bobbi Bonehead Boots Brie Matthews Bronson Bullets Buster Butch Cappy Charlie Bigg Chase Colton Chauncey Chuck Phillips Clod Craig Gamble Deadhead Eric Von Zipper Fleegle Flex Martian Frank Decker Frankie Freddie Carter Gidget Hastings Hot Shot Hulk Jack Fanny Jilda Junior Griffith Ken Lili Morton Lily Kilua Lorelei Luree Mikki Milo Talbot Moondoggie Myrtle Forbush Nita Elksberg North Dakota Pete Peter Royce Bentley / The Potato Bug Piccola Reginald Ripper Riff Rock Skeet Wells Sniffles Socum Sonny Leander Fox South Dakota Slim Steamer Lane Stinky Sugar Kane Sulk Swag Sylvia Dempster Terry Wells Tug Vikki Vivian Clements

1980s Surfing Movie Names

Ames Ashby Bodhi Brock Bunker Chandler Chuck Dede Eesh Geri Grommet Gut Gut Hog Hunter Jocko O'Finlay Johnny Big Head Johnny Utah Lance Burkhart Menlo Schwartzer Nelson Rag Rick Kane Roach Rosie Rounder Rush Scotty Palmer Slick Sparkle Tone Turtle Tyler Endicott Warchild Wyatt

2000s Surfing Movie Names

Cody Maverick Donnie Drake Landon Frosty Hesson Lake Nudie Philaine Pushy Reggie Belafonte Sid Sonny Tank Evans Thunder Monkey Topper Burks Zeke Topanga

Professional Surfers

Allen Holder Andy Irons Balaram Stack Barron Mamiya Bonga Perkins Bruce Brown Bunker Spreckels Butch Van Artsdalen Buzzy Kerbox Buzzy Trent CJ Hobgood Cheyne Magnusson Chris Hawk Cliff Kapono Coco Ho Corky Carroll Courtney Conlogue Dale Velzy Darrick Doerner Dave Kalama Dax McGill Dewey Weber Duane DeSoto Duke Kahanamoku Eddie Aikau Frieda Zamba Greg Cipes Griffin Colapinto Jake Caster Jesse Billauer John John Florence Kanoa Igarashi Keala Kennelly Keani Reiner Keanu Asing Kelly Slater Kolohe Andino Lakey Peterson Lani Doherty LeRoy Grannis Lemon "Rusty" Wond Holt Lexi VonderLieth Lokelani McMichael Makua Rothman Margo Oberg Mark Massara Megan Abubo Miki Dora Montgomery Kaluhiokalani Owl Chapman Paul Roach Pete Cabrinha Quincy Davis Rabbit Kekai Randy Laine Rell Sunn Robert August Rolf Aurness Rusty Keaulana Sage Erickson Sanoe Lake Shane Beschen Skip Frye Sunny Garcia Taylor Knox Tia Blanco Veronica Kay

[jdmorganz]

JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN as Butch Slater Bloody Axe Wound (2024) dir. Matthew John Lawrence

[maritamorgado]

[whatstodaysstim]

8+25 for the ask thing !

Game of the year? 

I know it didn’t come out this year but it was Sims 4, I finally got it when they were doing that flash weekend deal where you could get it for free! I only have two dlc packs as I don’t have the money for them but I really love creating houses and people all the same! (You all seemed to like my little portacabin houses too!)

Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one

I made quite a lot of new people this year. I’m working on far too many projects at once :p I haven’t made any for Rum but I did make one with Leo on our joint project, Beep Boop. She’s called Maire(My-rah) and is a giant purple fluffy lobster and is also a femme lobsian with her girlfriend who is a parrot (soft butch lesbirb) called Alanza, but Alanza was made last year :p

Other than that I have a detective series about a gay and lesbian couple in 1960s Britain, but its hard to find information about then, the information is extremely sparse. But there is Patricia Bailey, Jean Hayward, Leslie Palmer and Edmund Slater in these planned stories and they solve mysteries that may endanger queer people if they went to the police with the crimes and find ways to make sure the criminals still get arrested eventually. They’re married in faux heterosexual arrangements but live next door so....

In the last week I’ve also started planning a computer rpg but we’ll ignore that

[eye-of-yelough]

not a he/him lesbian but i believe in their beliefs. by which i mean i find it so so difficult to create a lesbian oc without giving them he/him pronouns

[introvertguide]

Tootsie (1982); AFI #69

The film under review is the 1982 comedy Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Dustin Hoffman. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and was also inducted into the National Film Archives by the Library of Congress in 1998. I read over my notes about this film from when I watched it in 2014 and I didn’t think much of the film at the time, but I read Roger Ebert’s review and saw that it has very good Rotten Tomato and Metacritic scores so I figured I was just missing something. I watched it twice over the last couple of days and I think I feel the same as I did before. Bored. Here is a quick plot summary before we get to the breakdown:

SPOILER ALERT!!!

Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman)  is a respected actor, but nobody in New York wants to hire him because he is a perfectionist and difficult to work with. After many months without a job, Michael hears of an opening on the popular daytime soap opera Southwest General from his friend and acting student Sandy Lester (Terri Garr), who tries out for the role of hospital administrator Emily Kimberly. In desperation for work, Michael impersonates a woman and, auditioning under the name "Dorothy Michaels", gets the part. Michael takes the job as a way to raise $8,000 to produce a play, written by his roommate Jeff Slater (Bill Murray), which will star himself and Sandy. Michael plays his character as a feisty feminist, which is not how the part is written, and quickly becomes a national sensation. 

Michael gets into his part a little too much and he finds himself trying on clothes at Sandy’s house. She catches him and he covers up by claiming he wants to have sex with her. Exacerbating matters further, he is attracted to one of his co-stars, Julie Nichols (played by Jessica Lange), a single mother in an unhealthy relationship with the show's amoral, sexist director, Ron Carlisle. At a party, when Michael (as himself) approaches Julie with a pick-up line that she had previously told Dorothy she would be receptive to, she throws a drink in his face. 

Michael becomes close with Julie when he is dressed up as Dorothy and he is invited to a weekend at her father’s house. Michael starts to really fall for Julie, but it is Julie’s father Les (Charles Durning) that falls for Dorothy and even tries to propose. Michael freaks out and goes to his agent George Fields (played by Director Sydney Pollack) to try and get him off of the show. George refuses because he has assisted Michael in getting the part and worries there will be blow back over the deceit. 

Sandy visits Michael, asking why he hasn't answered her calls.  Michael admits he's in love with another woman, and Sandy screams and breaks up with him. The tipping point comes when, due to Dorothy's popularity, the show's producers want to extend her contract for another year. Michael finds a clever way to extricate himself: when the cast is forced by a technical problem to perform an episode live, he improvises a grand speech on camera, pulls off his wig and reveals that he is actually Edward, the character's twin brother who took her place to avenge her. 

The revelation allows everybody a more-or-less graceful way out. Julie, however, is so outraged that she punches him in the stomach once the cameras have stopped rolling, before storming off. Some weeks later, Michael is moving forward with producing Jeff's play. He also gives Les back his ring, and Les tells Michael: "The only reason you're still living is because I never kissed you." Michael later waits for Julie outside the studio. She is reluctant to talk to him, but finally admits she misses Dorothy. Michael tells her, "I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man." She forgives him and they walk down the street. The end.

This might seem abrupt, but that is really the ending. There are so many plot lines that were left unexplored, but realistically they weren’t going anywhere so maybe the sudden ending was a benefit. But what happened to Sandy? She was screwed over by Michael for the whole movie and then her fate is left pretty much unresolved. What about the agent? I guess he was disgraced and kicked out of the business? The dad was really OK with being fooled into proposing by a guy who was trying to trick his daughter? The movie is very incomplete. 

A strange almost irony is how bad the score is in this film (very generic 80s busy music) and that the story has recently become a stage play. On the other hand, taking a good premise and stripping it down to just the characters and then adapting it to the stage has worked well with Broadway. 

One virtue of the film is the different approach to portraying gender roles. I was raised in the 80s but I have long since forgotten the idea that a relationship was considered a  joke if the people involved were of the same gender. Gay relationships of the 80s were portrayed on the big and small screen as comical, with the men being flaming and effeminate and the women being butch and mean. This film does not do that. There are some scenes of gay panic, but that is because the characters are being caught up in their lies. The message is to be who you really are and I don’t feel like there is judgment against a particular lifestyle beyond when it is false to the character’s true nature. 

I personally find the premise of this movie much more interesting than the actual film itself. I can imagine that “an actor who crosses gender to earn a part and learns a powerful lesson about gender roles” sounds good and there are a lot of jokes about a man learning the difficulty of being a woman. I also think there is a dangerously close tread towards implying that a man could do a better job being a woman than a woman can. However, it turns out to be more along the lines of women can be incredibly strong if they had the privilege and entitlements that men have. It was very progressive for the time. 

All of the actual female characters are played so weak and it is funny that this is the only place in which the movie actually won an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Lange). Terri Garr is especially weak and neurotic with her character being screwed over throughout the movie. It is really the only character that I have ever seen the actress play, so I don’t know if there was anything else that could have come from her. Jessica Lange finally gains enough confidence to step away from a comfortable but bad relationship, but she ends the film in a strange relationship with a guy that has been lying to her consistently the whole time she has known him. 

I have found as I have researched this film and actually rewatched it a couple of times that I really don’t like this movie beyond the premise and how novel it was for the time. The ending was awkward and the premise gag ran out of steam halfway through the film. So would I recommend it? Not really. The awkward gender bending was done better before in Some Like It Hot (1959) and after in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), the challenge of switching gender roles was much better in Mr. Mom (1983), and the music was finally made tolerable in Tootsie the Musical. I would not recommend this film since it doesn’t hold up. Should it be on the AFI top 100? No. With movies like Dr. Zhivago dropped off the list, I don’t see why this one stayed on. It is a decent movie but the premise has been done better over and over again so it really does not stand up. At best, it was a reflection of how female roles were changing in society, but at worst it was a slightly funny single joke that ran for 2 hours. Really not something that deserves to be in the ranks of the greatest American movies. 

[argyle-s]

So the reason you write Eliza Danvers so well is because you love Helen Slater?

Yes.

Seriously, the number of times I have watched The Legend of Billy Jean is scary, but Helen Slater with that butch ass hair cut...  *dies of gay*