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Director Sydney Pollack Dies

Best known for "Tootsie" and "Out of Africa," the Academy Award winner dies of cancer. He was 73.

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The Director Who Always Played a Supporting Role
Article | Sydney Pollack made them old-fashioned -- big and bighearted. Matinee idols kissed in exotic locales. The music washed over us like an aural Danube. He lifted us out of our lives and into worlds we would never go -- the hunting grounds of "Out of Africa," the snowy mountains of "Jeremiah Johnson,"...
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