Pollack
May 27 2008, AP

Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved commercial and critical success with the gender-bending comedy “Tootsie” and the period drama “Out of Africa, has died. He was 73.Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in...

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In this May 25, 2006, file photo, U.S. film director Sydney Pollack speaks during a master class interview at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, southern France. Pollack died of cancer May 26, 2008 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif.....