A granddaughter’s loving mash-note to the era of her grandfather, Kristi Jacobsen’s “Toots” is also a sweet celebration of a saloon that helped define an era in Manhattan nightlife. Glorious archival footage mingles with remembrances by articulate barflies of the time, such as Mike Wallace, Gay Talese, Walter Cronkite, Nick Pileggi, Joe Garagiola, Yogi Berra and long-sober Pete Hamill. “Toots” talks the talk, walks the walk, and lives it, too: “a simpler time, not a more innocent time.” 85m. 35mm. (Ray Pride)
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