In an interview conducted a year before his death (in 2009), writer Larry Gelbart revealed that he nursed a grudge against Dustin Hoffman, because Hoffmann claimed that his friend, writer and producer Murray Schisgal, had conceived the movie. In his last major interview, given in 2008, Gelbart told salon.com's Mike Sacks: "Tootsie (1982) is my vision, despite Dustin Hoffman's lifelong mission to deprive anybody of any credit connected with that movie, except for his close friend, the writer and producer Murray Schisgal. I say that because Dustin appeared with James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio (1994) in 2006 and declared that the Tootsie (1982) idea sprang from Schisgal's intestines. I don't know much about gastroenterology, but I do know that the central theme for Tootsie (1982) came from me. And the central theme was that Dustin's character, Michael Dorsey, would become a better man for having been a woman. That was the cornerstone of the film. All of the other details are just floating around that idea."
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