Sydney Pollack, 73; Oscar-winning director and producer

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By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

May 27, 2008

Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of Out of Africa who acheived acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including The Way We Were and Tootsie, died Monday. He was 73.  READ MORE.

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 Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73

By Michael Cieply, New York Times

May 27, 2008

LOS ANGELES - 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 here. He was 73.  READ MORE.

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Sydney Pollack

By Andre Soares, Alternative Film Guide

May 27, 2008

Sydney Pollack, the director of several critical and box-office successes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, died of cancer earlier today in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades. He was 73.  READ MORE.