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Sydney Pollack was 73
Published 5/27/2008 at Movie City Indie
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Respect and Affection
Published 5/27/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Respect and Affection I woke up this morning -- late, around 9 am -- to news of the death of Sydney Pollack . Which we all knew was coming for a long while. The thing about "death's honesty" (a Bob Dylan coinage from the mid 60s) is that all dread and preparation are forgotten once that solitary walk across the footbridge has been made. Then it all comes washing in. Sydney wasn't a "friend" but a confidante and supporter, a guy I could always call and, I felt, a warm acquaintance. As difficult as approaching a threshold always is, once it's been surmounted there is only peace and tranquility for the traveller. The burden is over, the pain is over. In ...

The way he was: Sydney Pollack on YouTube
Published 5/27/2008 by Ben Child at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
Sad news this morning with the death of the Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack at the age of 73 after a 10-month battle with cancer. What's often forgotten about Pollack is that he was a startlingly good actor, good enough even to keep pace with an on-form, Oscar-nominated Dustin Hoffman in 1982's Tootsie , for which Pollack was also nominated for the best director Academy Award. Hoffman is said to have begged the film-maker to take the part of his long-suffering agent in the picture, and you can see why: the pair share the sort of natural screen chemistry borne of familiarity. It can't have hurt that they apparently spent most of their ...