Breaking news: Sydney Pollack has died, age 73- Page 2

[keen on kean]

Posted: 5/26/08 at 11:32pm

RIP, Mr. Pollack. The opening scene of OUT OF AFRICA may be one of the most evocative pieces of film ever developed.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:49am

The best thing about him is that, although he and Werner Herzog may have been directors first, they were also incredible actors and were actually good at it. I put him with Herzog because I can't really think of another director-first who also acted as much as he did.

He shall be missed. I was a huge fan.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:54am

Loved his role in EYES WIDE SHUT.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:56am

I loved his film roles as well as his direction of course.
I was so shocked to read this, I had no idea. Tragic news indeed.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:57am

"Michael...they're DOING it!"

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 2:08am

Truly sad news. May he rest in peace.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 2:10am

Very sad.

He was a true, multi-talented entertainer.

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 2:15am

I'm just finding this out from you. He was very talented.

[broadwayman17]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 3:20am

Such great talent gone too soon. My condolences go out to his family, he will be missed.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 8:34am

This is absolutely terrible. He was such a talented actor and director. He will be missed greatly.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 8:49am

Pollack was an actor FIRST, before he ever directed anything. He studied with Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and eventually taught acting there. His early work on stage, TV and film was as an actor. He worked a lot, too, beginning in the late '50s. After he started directing for TV in the early '60s, his second career took off, and he decided to focus on directing after that. But he never stopped acting.

[DG]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 9:04am

Apparently, it was his friend Burt Lancaster who encouraged him to go into directing.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 9:56am

The episode in Will and Grace where Will's dad dies will now mean a little more.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:02am

I especially loved his work in MICHAEL CLAYTON last year. I hate that such an amazingly versatile person is dead with his last film being MAID OF HONOR. Yuck.


I'm gonna watch the episodes of WILL & GRACE tonight with him. This is truly heartbreaking.

[beacon1]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:11am

I heard this on the radio on the way into work this morning and my heart sank. He was a marvelously talented man. I had so much confidence in his ability to deliver quality work as both a director and an actor. It made me sit up in the theater when I saw he directed a film and I would so hope he'd be make an appearance in it, too.

His work on Will & Grace was priceless, too. He and Blythe Danner seemed to get such a kick out of appearing on that show.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:40am

Sad news. TOOTSIE is one of the best American comedies. I can forgive the horrors of OUT OF AFRICA for the scene in TOOTSIE where Dorothy Michaels intrudes on Pollack's lunch at the Russian Tea Room.

[blueroses]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:56am

You know, I think I may even love that Russian Tea Room scene even more than the "Tomato doesn't have logic!" scene.

[Craig]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 11:10am

A devestating blow to the world of film. A true triple threat creativity between producing, directing and acting.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 11:31am

I was so sad to hear this...I was unaware he was so ill. Everyone has mentioned his artistry...and I'd add that he seemed like such a sweet man, and he was very sexy...I know that seems inappropriate, but who wouldnt want that said after they died.

RIP

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 11:38am

A huge loss to the the world of film

rest in peace X

[DG]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 11:40am

doodle - inappropriate or not, I agree with you.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:24pm

Ahh, I thought he was a director first and then an actor second. Most directors are extremely camera-shy and refuse to act much, or if they do they'll act in just a small cameo or something. Aside from Pollack and Herzog, can you think of any other directors who would act as much as they direct? I guess Woody Allen would count.

[fflagg]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:31pm

Barbra Streisand was filming a scene for "The Prince of Tides" at Grand Central Station. Along comes Sydney Pollack. Barbra yells to son Jason "Jason, look, it's Uncle Sydney!"

Nice moment.

They should have done the sequel to "The Way We Were."

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:42pm

I was watching The View this morning and they announced it. (That's how I found out). Joy was a bit ticked off. She said she was watching MSNBC and a younger anchor reported his passing and when listing his movies, called "The Way We Were", "The Way We Are". And she said nobody corrected her.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:45pm

By the way, has anyone seen that "Turn off your cell-phone" commercial where he's directing some woman while she's talking on her cell? I haven't seen that one in a while.

Good times. Good times.