Basic cable classic JUST ONE OF THE GUYS will reveal itself as part of 92YTribeca series
JUST ONE OF THE GUYS (Lisa Gottlieb, 1985)
92YTribeca
200 Hudson St. at Canal St.
Tuesday, August 16, $12, 7:00
212-415-5500
www.92y.org
We all have those basic cable movies that we can’t turn off when we find them while channel surfing. For some of us it’s Point Break, others The Beastmaster. Some can’t help but watch Highlander yet again, while others are compelled to follow Night of the Comet through to its always thrilling conclusion. For some reason, we’ve been obsessed with Just One of the Guys since we first saw it many moons ago. It’s the standard, overused story of a person so desperate to get something that they pretend they’re the opposite gender; think Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot, Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria, but on a rather different plane of existence. All of those films and more are at least partially responsible for the birth of Lisa Gottlieb’s Just One of the Guys, in which onetime Bruce Springsteen flame Joyce Hyser plays Terry Griffith, a well-endowed high school lassie who thinks she has a better chance of winning a journalism contest if she’s a boy, so she tapes down her breasts and temporarily switches genders, with only her wacky brother, Buddy (Billy Jayne), and best friend, Denise (Toni Hudson), privy to the old switcheroo. The soundtrack is a hoot, populated by the likes of Shalamar, Berlin, Billy Burnette, Lindsey Buckingham, and Midnight Star. The big reveal is a genre classic — and one you actually can’t see in full on basic cable, but you will be able to see it in all its glory on August 16 at 7:00 as part of 92YTribeca’s “Basic Cable Classics” series, followed by a Q&A with director Gottlieb and Irin Carmon, better known as blogger and journalist Jezebel.