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    Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Dies at 73

    LOS ANGELES - Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved commercial and critical success with the gender-bending comedy "Tootsie" and the period drama "Out of Africa, has died. He was 73.

    Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, surrounded by family, said agent Leslee Dart.

    Pollack, who occasionally appeared on the screen himself, worked with and gained the respect of Hollywood's best actors in a long career that reached prominence in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Last fall, he played Marty Bach opposite George Clooney in "Michael Clayton," which Pollack also co-produced. The film received seven Oscar nominations, including best picture and a best actor nod for Clooney.

    In recent years, Pollack produced many independent films with filmmaker Anthony Minghella and a production company Mirage Enterprises.

    The Lafayette, Ind. native was born to first-generation Russian-Americans.

    In high school, he fell in love with theater, a passion that prompted him forego college and move to New York and enroll in the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_sydney_pollack
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    Re: Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Dies at 73

    Michael Clayton was superficial, box office trash. That was a blemish on a rather impressive and full career.

    Directed the likes of Absence of Malice, Three Days of the Condor, Jeremiah Johnson, They Shoot Horses Don't They.

    Acted in Eyes Wide Shut and The Player.

    Produced Tootsie, Honeysuckle Rose, Absence of Malice, The Firm, Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Out of Africa, Presumed Innocent.

    Sydney Pollack | Director, Producer, Actor
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001628/
    Known for: Tootsie, Michael Clayton, Eyes Wide Shut


    P.S. I bet you he lost so much money on Clayton, it killed him.
    Between childhood, boyhood,
    adolescence
    & manhood (maturity) there
    should be sharp lines drawn w/
    Tests, deaths, feats, rites
    stories, songs & judgements

    - Morrison, Jim. Wilderness, vol. 1, p. 22

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      Re: Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Dies at 73

      I doubt it.

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        Re: Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Dies at 73

        Well, Mr. Clooney kills movies, studio budgets, taking human life with impunity seems to be near his wheel well.

        Soon, he'll be sucking the life out of freshly born babies.
        Between childhood, boyhood,
        adolescence
        & manhood (maturity) there
        should be sharp lines drawn w/
        Tests, deaths, feats, rites
        stories, songs & judgements

        - Morrison, Jim. Wilderness, vol. 1, p. 22

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          Re: Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Dies at 73

          Originally posted by freakyfreaky View Post
          Three Days of the Condor
          A good movie that is as relevant as ever today.

          He didn't really deserve those Oscars he won for Out of Africa (the cinematic equivalent of a sleeping pill), but as always, it was a consolation for his previous work.

          I wonder why he stopped hosting The Essentials on TCM? It couldn't have been because of his health, because he went on to direct and act in several films before succumbing to cancer.

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            Re: Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Dies at 73

            Originally posted by TomServo View Post
            A good movie that is as relevant as ever today.

            He didn't really deserve those Oscars he won for Out of Africa (the cinematic equivalent of a sleeping pill), but as always, it was a consolation for his previous work.

            I wonder why he stopped hosting The Essentials on TCM? It couldn't have been because of his health, because he went on to direct and act in several films before succumbing to cancer.
            Agree with respect to Three Days. And also with respect to Out of Africa. Its right up there with Chariots of Fire in the snooze category.

            Probably decided to choose and pick his battles.
            Between childhood, boyhood,
            adolescence
            & manhood (maturity) there
            should be sharp lines drawn w/
            Tests, deaths, feats, rites
            stories, songs & judgements

            - Morrison, Jim. Wilderness, vol. 1, p. 22

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