Sydney Pollack Dead At 73
Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack, whose credits included Out Of Africa, The Way We Were and Tootsie, died at home in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 73. His death came within three months of the cancer death of his business partner and fellow filmmaker Anthony Minghella, with whom he ran production company Mirage Enterprises. Able to draw talent with his passion for film and nuanced directing, Pollack was known for featuring top Hollywood stars in virtually all his films. At Dustin Hoffman's insistence, he took a role as the agent in Tootsie, and continued an acting sideline that culminated with a standout performance in Michael Clayton, featured after the jump along with an outtake from his journalism corrective Absence of Malice.
