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Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin. Jessica Lange in Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982).

American film actress Jessica Lange (1949) won Oscars, Emmys and a Tony Award. However, her disastrous film debut was also nearly the end of her career.

Jessica Phyllis Lange was born in 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA. Her parents were Dorothy (née Sahlman) and Al Lange (1913-1989), a teacher and travelling salesman. She has two older sisters named Ann Lange and Jane Lange, and a younger brother named George Lange, who is a pilot. Jessica obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis cast her as the female lead in King Kong (John Guillermin, 1976) opposite Jeff Bridges. The film attracted much unfavourable comment and, as a result, Lange was off the screen for three years. She played a small but showy part in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979). Then she gave a memorable performance as an adulterous waitress in the thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bob Rafelson, 1981), opposite Jack Nicholson. The following year, she received rave reviews for her exceptional portrayal of tragic actress Frances Farmer in Frances (Graeme Clifford, 1982). On set, she also met her new partner, actor Sam Shepard. She won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her part as a beautiful Soap Opera actress in Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982) starring Dustin Hoffman. She had a Best Actress Oscar Nomination in 1984 for Country, which she also helped to produce.

Jessica Lange was outstanding as country singer Patsy Cline in Sweet Dreams (Karel Reisz, 1985). She again received acclaim as a lawyer who defends her father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and discovers his past in Music Box (Costa-Gravas, 1989). She played another memorable role as a scared housewife in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) opposite Nick Nolte and Robert De Niro. In 1992, she made her Broadway debut playing Blanche in Tennessee Williams's 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. For her role as a mentally unbalanced wife of a military officer (Tommy Lee Jones) in Blue Sky (Tony Richardson, 1994), she won a Best Actress Academy Award. In 1995, she starred opposite Liam Neeson in the historical epic Rob Roy (Michael Caton-Jones, 1995). Lange played Albert Finney's wife in Tim Burton's Big Fish (2003). In 2009, she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Grey Gardens (2009). She received the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress three years later in a Miniseries or Movie for American Horror Story (2011). In 2016, she won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for 'Long Day's Journey into Night'. Jessica Lange was married to photographer Francisco Paco Grande (1970-1982) and had a long-time relationship with actor and author Sam Shepard (1982-2009). She has three children: Aleksandra 'Shura' Lange Baryshnikov (1981) by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov; Hannah Jane Shepard (1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (1987) by Sam Shepard.

Sources: Thanassis Agathos (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch and English) and IMDb.

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Die Cast Cars Pickups
* Corgi - Auto City: London Taxi (1993)
* Hot Wheels - DC Batman: TV Series Batmobile (Blue Metal Falke)
* Hot Wheels - HW Ride-Ons: Orange Pixel Shaker
* Unmarked - Green open car
* A Budgie Model - Cement Mixer
* TootsieToy - Blue Car

Hot Wheels - HW Ride-Ons: White Kick Kart
Hot Wheels - HW Ride-Ons: Green Rink Racer
Tootsie Toys - Green Mini Car
Hot Wheels - DC Black & Blue Batman Arkham Knight Batmobile
Matchbox - Sky Busters Indiana Jones Ford Trimotor

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Recent Diecast Pickups 08-18-2024
* Matchbox - Honda Motorcycle & Orange Trailer (1967)
* Matchbox - Baja Buggy (1971)
* Matchbox - Atlas Blue & Orange Dump Truck (1977)
* Matchbox - Horse-Box Yellow & White
* Hot Wheels - Peterbilt Tanker Truck (1981)
* Hot Wheels -'63 T-Bird (1998)
* Tootsie Toy - Red Bus or Passenger Train Car?

Various Tootsie Toys mini cars
Someday I'll find the Tootsie Toy car carrier designed to hold them

Hattie Bess is better known to Nashville Country Music Stars as "Tootsie." In 1960, she purchased a bar called Mom's on Lower Broadway which which was just across the alley from the legendary Ryman Auditorium which was home of the Grand Ole Opry. Opry announcer Grant Turner said, "You could leave Tootsie's at 7:58 and still be on stage at the Opry at 8 o'clock." Many Opry performers did just that. Over the years, musicians and performers like Tom T. Hall, Kris Kristofferson, Roger Miller, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, or Hank Williams may not have reached the heights of stardom that they did without the help of Tootsie. who would often hire down of their luck performers to play at her Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. Willie Nelson got his first songwriting job after singing at Tootsie's. "She ran a beer joint," said Tom T. Hall, "but to young songwriters and musicians, she was a small finance company, a booking agent and a counselor. "Maybe Ernest Tubb put it even better: "Tootsie was the softest touch in town." Tootsie Bess died of cancer Feb. 18, 1978. Her funeral was attended by loyal customers from mechanics to country music legends. She is resting next to her son-in law, Harold Weakley in the Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville. Tennessee.

Hattie Bess is better known to Nashville Country Music Stars as "Tootsie." In 1960, she purchased a bar called Mom's on Lower Broadway which which was just across the alley from the legendary Ryman Auditorium which was home of the Grand Ole Opry. Opry announcer Grant Turner said, "You could leave Tootsie's at 7:58 and still be on stage at the Opry at 8 o'clock." Many Opry performers did just that. Over the years, musicians and performers like Tom T. Hall, Kris Kristofferson, Roger Miller, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, or Hank Williams may not have reached the heights of stardom that they did without the help of Tootsie. who would often hire down of their luck performers to play at her Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. Willie Nelson got his first songwriting job after singing at Tootsie's. "She ran a beer joint," said Tom T. Hall, "but to young songwriters and musicians, she was a small finance company, a booking agent and a counselor. "Maybe Ernest Tubb put it even better: "Tootsie was the softest touch in town." Tootsie Bess died of cancer Feb. 18, 1978. Her funeral was attended by loyal customers from mechanics to country music legends. She is resting next to her son-in law, Harold Weakley in the Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville. Tennessee.

Tootsie Toys Pickups over the last couple years

American postcard by Coral-Lee, Rancho Cordova, no. CL/Personality # 112. Photo: Greg Gorman. Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982).

Dustin Hoffman (1937) is an Oscar-winning American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. Hoffman has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters. He has earned acclaim for his work in such films as The Graduate (1967), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988). Hoffman made his directorial debut with Quartet (2012).

Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1937. His parents were Lillian and Harry Hoffman. Although he is Jewish, Hoffman and his brother were raised in a relatively secular household. Hoffman's acting career began at age 19 when he dropped out of college to pursue the stage at the Pasadena Playhouse. There, Hoffman befriended another young actor, Gene Hackman. Eventually, the two would both move to New York City where they lived together with Robert Duvall, all three of them looking for work in television and off-Broadway plays. Hoffman studied at Actors Studio and became a dedicated method actor. To make ends meet, he took odd jobs and the occasional bit role. Slowly but surely, Hoffman began building a strong reputation through smaller roles. Hoffman acted in a few Broadway productions, including the play, Eh? in 1966, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. Word of mouth soon reached Hollywood, and Hoffman made his film debut in The Tiger Makes Out (1967), alongside Eli Wallach. In 1966, director Mike Nichols auditioned Hoffman for a lead role in the Broadway musical The Apple Tree but rejected him because he could not sing well enough and gave Alan Alda the part. But Nichols was so impressed with Hoffman's overall audition he cast him as Benjamin Braddock, who returns to his wealthy parents' home in California after graduating from college, in The Graduate (1967). This enormously popular movie changed the landscape of American cinema in the 1960s, and would in turn make Hoffman an unlikely star. In 1969, Hoffman struck gold again with the gritty Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969), in which he played the part of Ratso Rizzo, a homeless man in New York City. This performance garnered him a second Oscar nomination. Also in 1969, Hoffman co-starred with Mia Farrow in John and Mary (Peter Yates, 1969). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and received a 1970 BAFTA Award for his role, although the film received mixed reviews.

On a roll in the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman starred in several acclaimed movies, including Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971), Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973), and Lenny (Bob Fosse, 1974). Another highlight was the political thriller All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976) about the Watergate scandal, which starred Hoffman and Robert Redford as the real-life journalists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Hoffman next starred in the thriller Marathon Man (John Schlesinger, 1976). based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, opposite Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider He finally won an Academy Award for his performance in Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979), with co-star Meryl Streep also nabbing an Oscar. In 1982, playing yet another antihero, Hoffman starred in the comedy Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982) as Michael Dorsey, a down-and-out actor who must dress up as a woman to get a part in a daytime soap opera. Tootsie earned ten Academy Award nominations, including Hoffman's fifth nomination. Following a brief but successful return to the stage in Death of a Salesman and The Merchant of Venice, Hoffman starred in the Hollywood smash Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988) alongside Tom Cruise. Hoffman's portrayal of an autistic genius earned him a second Academy Award and remains one of his most iconic performances.

The 1990s brought Dustin Hoffman appearances in a series of big-budget movies that proved largely disappointing at the box office. He returned with the revenge drama/legal thriller Sleepers (Barry Levinson, 1996) with Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, and Kevin Bacon. Hoffman's next critically acclaimed role was in the political satire Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson, 1997). Playing an unscrupulous Hollywood executive out to fool the public into thinking the country was at war, he scored yet another Oscar nomination. In 2004, Hoffman again exhibited his comedic prowess when he starred with Lily Tomlin in an offbeat movie about a detective team that solves existential crises, I Heart Huckabees (David O'Russell, 2004). Further cementing his new direction, he went on to appear in the Ben Stiller comedies Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach, 2004) and Little Fockers (Paul Weitz, 2010), and the children's fantasy Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Zach Helm, 2007). Hoffman continues to star in blockbuster films like Stranger than Fiction (2006) but also seeks out new and different projects, such as lending his voice to the animated children's movies Kung Fu Panda and The Tale of Despereaux (both 2008). He made his directorial debut in 2012 with Quartet, and in 2014 he joined the ensemble cast of Jon Favreau's critically acclaimed Chef. In 2016, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his work on Roald Dahl's Esio Trot. In the fall of 2017, after the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment allegations rocked Hollywood, Hoffman became one of the actors forced to account for past behaviour. Writer Anna Graham Hunter, who was 17 when she interned on the set of the Death of a Salesman TV movie in 1985, recounted the older actor asking about her sex life and groping her. In December, a new round of reports surfaced in which five women accused Hoffman of sexual assault or harassment, including accounts of the actor exposing himself and forced sexual activity. Hoffman denied. Apart from his successful professional work, Hoffman married Anne Byrne in 1969. He adopted her daughter, Karina, from a previous marriage, and in 1970 their second daughter, Jenna, was born. After more than 10 years of marriage, Hoffman and Anne divorced in 1980. Soon after, he married attorney Lisa Gottsegen. They would have four children: Jacob Edward, Rebecca Lillian, Maxwell Geoffrey and Alexandra Lydia.

Sources: Biography.com, Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Weekend Diecast Pickups 10-2023
* Tootsietoy - Ford Sedan Model A (1929)
* Matchbox - Esso Service Station Sign (1957)
* Tootsietoy - Orange and Green Hydraulic Shovel (1969)
* Matchbox - Super King Yellow Racing Car Transporter (1973)

Weekend Diecast Pickups 10-2023
* Barclay - Red Car from Car Carrier Set (1955)
* Tootsietoy - Black Chevy El Camino (1965)
* Tootsietoy - Black Chevy StepSide (1981)
* Playart - Green Freight Truck
* Matchbox - Saracen Personnel Carrier (1958)
* Matchbox - Superfast The Londoner "Matchbox 1953-1978" (1978)