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Sydney Pollack Dead At 73

Legendary film director and producer Sydney Pollack has died of cancer, aged 73. Diagnosed with cancer 10 months ago, Sydney passed away on Monday, at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, with family members by his side. As well as being a renowned director and produced, Sydney also was an actor who appeared in movies up until 2007. He won producing and directing Oscars for the epic romance Out of Africa, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, in 1985 and directed Tootsie, wher read

Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)

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The Way He Was

Sydney Pollack has gone to that great studio in the sky. LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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 respe read

AP: Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73

The AP reports that Hollywood actor Sydney Pollack died of cancer today at age 73. I was fond of Pollack’s character (”Marty Bach”) in George Clooney’s “Michael Clayton” (2007). Pollack was easy to connect with on screen and delivered an organic presence that’s somewhat unique in Hollywood. I suppose I’ll now see “Made of Honor”, which was the last film he starred in. (via AP and Yahoo) By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a H read

Sydney Pollack: Film Director, Producer and Actor

I was just saddened to read that Sydney Pollack just passed away. What's amazing about Pollack is not just the wide range of films that he directed and produced, but for me what I admired about him was that he was also an actor. In fact my favorite scenes from the Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut are when Pollack playing Victor Ziegler tells the score to Tom Cruise who is playing Dr. William "Bill" Hartford. In those scenes he was so believable as the character even though I'd seen him interviewed read