He or she or -- ? Gender-benders fill Tuesday night on
Turner Classic Movieswith masquerades, impersonations and serious/silly sexual confusion.
Kicking off the quartet at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday is Yentl, Barbra Streisand's 1983 tale of a woman going guy to study the Torah. Then it's Julie Andrews singing from both sides as Victor/Victoria (10:30 p.m. ET), Blake Edwards' 1982 gem costarring James Garner and Robert Preston at their best.
Two flat-out comedies round out the night: Billy Wilder's 1959 delight Some Like It Hot (1 a.m. ET; photo above), with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon (and one of cinema's best-ever final lines); and Sydney Pollack's 1982 Tootsie (3:15 a.m. ET), where Dustin Hoffman plays a soap opera "actress" alongside Jessica Lange and Teri Garr.
Stay tuned for some real-life
and reel life confusion this weekend when cable runs a first-season marathon of ABC's soon-to-return
Dirty Sexy Money (Saturday 9 a.m.-7 p.m. ET on SOAPnet). The big-money melodrama includes transgender actress Candis Cayne as the mistress of William Baldwin's would-be U.S. senator (photo at right), only one of the wacky, wealthy Darling family members who form the nighttime soap's center. Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland and Blair Underwood help get the juicy action going, setting the stage for Lucy Liu to join the fun when ABC debuts the second season Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 10 p.m. ET.