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  1. 05-27-2008, 01:26 PM #1
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    Sydney Pollack passes away at 73.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movi...bit/index.html


    You'll be missed, Sydney. :sad:
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  2. 05-27-2008, 04:17 PM #2
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    Saw him in Michael Clayton. He looked fine. Now he's gone. Fucking cancer. Somebody please find a goddamn cure already.
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  3. 05-27-2008, 04:25 PM #3
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    Quote Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
    Saw him in Michael Clayton. He looked fine. Now he's gone. Fucking cancer. Somebody please find a goddamn cure already.
    Oh Morris.

    RIP for Sydney though. He'll be missed.

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  4. 05-27-2008, 04:27 PM #4
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    I was surprised to see this. Pollack always seemed like a swell guy and I didn't even know he was having health problems.

    Some day, Mr. Pollack, I'll watch one of your directorial works that wasn't The Interpreter.
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  5. 05-27-2008, 05:09 PM #5
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    Great director and an actor with great presence.
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    Whoa. Well that's an unexpected bit of sad news. R.I.P. Mr. Pollack. :sad:
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  7. 05-27-2008, 06:54 PM #7
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    very sad, but when i first heard the new, i thought it was sydney lumet. talking about tragedy.

    rip, thank you for adapting out of africa.
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    The AFI goes a little nutty over Tootsie, but it's really pretty funny.
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    Tootsie is a fine expression of male angst, but as a feminist tract, it is a regressive fantasy. Still, well acted on all counts. I agree that Pollack is a better actor than director. Sad news.
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  10. 05-27-2008, 08:45 PM #10
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    Oh shit.
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  11. 05-27-2008, 10:07 PM #11
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    I haven't seen too many of his films (mostly because many of them involve Robert Redford and I'm not a huge fan of Bob as an actor) but Tootsie was quite funny and Sketches of Frank Ghery is an interesting doc. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is supposedly pretty great.
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  12. 05-28-2008, 05:12 AM #12
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    Quote Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
    Somebody please find a goddamn cure already.
    I'm on it.
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