Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73
Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay as director, producer and sometime actor whose star-laden movies like “The Way We Were,” “Tootsie” and “Out of Africa” were among the most successful of the 1970s and ’80s, died Monday at home (in Los Angeles). He was 73.
Wow, I’m shocked. His directing and cameo roles were always first rate. He will be missed.
For those of you who don’t know who he is/was, here’s an old clip from Tootsie with Dustin Hoffman and Pollack.
An excellent remembrance of Pollack by Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic: Sydney Pollack.