Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73

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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.

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Topic - Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73 - Duilawyer 19:08:27 05/26/08 (7)

RE: Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73 - cmc 07:55:33 05/30/08 (0)

Hollywood could use more directors... - Beejai 19:20:06 05/28/08 (1)

The thing about Pollack was he trusted his audience. - Harmonia 00:12:37 05/29/08 (0)

One of the good guys in Hollywood... - Harmonia 15:47:09 05/27/08 (0)

I liked him.....as an actor and director. He'll be missed. * - mr grits 21:05:45 05/26/08 (1)

Agreed. He was good NT - Jazz Inmate 00:48:28 05/27/08 (0)

RE: Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73 - mpathus 21:04:03 05/26/08 (0)

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