Movie of the Week: ‘Marathon Man’

“Marathon Man” (1976) – In director Sydney Pollack’s NYC comedy “Tootsie” (1982), Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) runs around Manhattan a bit.  One scene, actually.  He’s in a hurry, but not a desperate one.  This struggling actor lost a part in “The Iceman Cometh” to a rival, and he’s hustling on foot to his agent’s (Pollack) office to vent.  In director John Schlesinger’s NYC thriller “Marathon Man”, Hoffman runs as well, but for two very different reasons.  First, Thomas Levy (Dustin Hoffman) – nicknamed ‘Babe’ – is a marathon runner, so…