Affectionately and vividly recalls a bygone New York era.
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10/09/07
Toots (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 9 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 7.7/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Synopsis: A friend to the famous, a crook to the feds, father, brother, gambler, bum: Toots Shor was many things. But above all, he was the owner of America’s greatest saloon. Sinatra and DiMaggio, Ruth and Costello, Eisenhower, Nixon and Warren: for 30 years, they all found their way to Toots’ eponymous... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Gay Talese, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Frank Gifford, Pete Hamill
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1 - 9 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
Cheers to Ms. Jacobson for keeping alive the memory of New York nightlife’s golden era, and a man who embodied it.
09/22/07
Top Critic
Toots leaves you longing for a more public culture, for places where the palship isn’t just the upshot of intoxication. It’s a cinematic happy hour.
09/17/07
A nostalgic, meticulously researched full course meal from granddaughter Kristi Jacobson that will whet appetites of fest, specialty and tube diners.
09/15/07
Top Critic
[Director Jacobson] skillfully turns one man's story into a spirited portrait of a good-time town.
09/14/07
A well-deserved toast to a quintessential New Yorker of the post-World War II era.
09/14/07
Charts with unabashed affection its subject's rise from Jewish discrimination as a kid in South Philly to magnetic celebrity and close friend to Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, Joe Dimagio, and Frank Gifford.
09/13/07
The film is most enamored, naturally, with the era of its subject's greatest influence, the '50s...
09/11/07
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