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	Sydney Pollack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sydney Pollack (born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American actor, producer, and director.
		Pollack's acting career kickstarted when he was directing Tootsie with Dustin Hoffman, of which his rows with the dedicated method actor became well known.
		The scenes of Pollack and Hoffman arguing is actually a reflection of their relationship off screen during the making of the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Pollack (201 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Sydney Pollack : Biography
		Sydney Pollack was born to first generation Russian-Jewish Americans on July 1, 1934.
		Pollack established himself as a competent, if unexceptional, director in such works as This Property Is Condemned, and one sequence of the Frank Perry-directed drama The Swimmer (based on a work of John Cheever).
		Pollack again proved his skill at handling period drama four years later with The Way We Were, a romantic drama starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford that became one of the most popular serious movies of the decade.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/94489/bio.jhtml (604 words)

	SAG Foundation \| Programs \| Conversations \| Sydney Pollack
		Pollack served as President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, and was honored by The French Government with the Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres.
		Pollack is a founding member of The Sundance Institute, The Chairman Emeritus of The American Cinematheque, a sustaining founder of The Film Foundation of the Director's Guild of America, and on the Board of Directors for The Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation.
		Pollack, What I have learned from you tonight is invaluable to me. Your work has fascinated me and I am truly appreciative of what you have done for all of us tonight.
	www.sagfoundation.org /conversations/20030714 (1070 words)

	PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "A Conversation with Sydney Pollack"
		Pollack was born in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1934.
		POLLACK: Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
		POLLACK: I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
	www.pbs.org /thinktank/transcript896.html (3446 words)

	NEWS \| MAGAZINE \| VOLUME 25-4 NOVEMBER 2000
		When Sydney Pollack directed Dustin Hoffman to a radically funny twist on the macho image in Tootsie, it was anything but a drag as the cross-dressing classic went on to reap 10 Academy Award nominations and won a statuette for Jessica Lange as best supporting actress.
		Pollack sat back in a chair on a sound stage at E! Entertainment Networks' Wilshire Boulevard offices in Los Angeles and answered some of Hosney's prepared questions, then began answering the e-mails as they came in.
		Pollack's talk was officially billed as "Guys 'n' Gals 'n' Girdles: The Drag King Tells All About the Making of Tootsie." The web casts consisted mostly of tight head shots on the directors as they talked.
	www.dga.org /news/v25_4/feat_Pollack.php3 (2185 words)

	Filmmaker Sydney Pollack, Doing What He Hates Best
		If movies were operas, Pollack wouldn't be happy until the fat lady sang, doffed her Viking helmet and sailed home for the evening.
		Pollack won the Best Director and Best Picture awards for "Out of Africa," which he also produced; and he was nominated in the same two categories for "Tootsie," and as a director for the 1969 movie "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
		Pollack is a "notorious choker," Tim Bevan, producer of "The Interpreter," told the London Times this month.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/21/AR2005042101487_pf.html (1472 words)

	Biography for Sydney Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Three children: a son, Steven Pollack, born in 1959 (died 1993); daughter, Rebecca Pollack, born in 1963; daughter, Rachel Pollack, born in 1969.
		Pollack's son Steven was one of three occupants of a light plane killed when the aircraft crashed into the carport of an apartment building in Santa Monica, California, on November 26, 1993.
		Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, and briefly served as one of its acting coaches, before embarking on his own career on stage and television.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001628/bio (698 words)

	Sydney Pollack - The professional. By Bryan Curtis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pollack was born in Lafayette, Ind., in 1934—raised around a "suspiciousness of sophistication," he says, by a father who wanted him to become a dentist.
		One of the reasons Pollack's films feel so reassuring is that they pander to our basest moviegoing instinct: "Well, if it's a turkey, at least it's got…" That this is also the base instinct of studio executives explains a bit about why Pollack is a Hollywood treasure.
		Pollack's camera treats the General Assembly Hall with the same quiet reverence it used to lavish on Redford's sun-kissed cheeks.
	slate.msn.com /id/2117115 (1083 words)

	Sydney Pollack
		Originally from Lafayette, Indiana, Sydney Pollack began his career as an actor after studying with Sanford Meisner at New York City’s famed Neighborhood Playhouse.
		Pollack hadn’t given up acting though, and made his big screen debut in War Hunt (1962), where he met fellow actor Robert Redford, who was also making his big screen debut.
		Pollack and Redford would work together on six more films over the years, including Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Electric Horseman (1979), Out of Africa (1985) and Havana (1990).
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2009 (388 words)

	PROJECTOR FILMS-Anthony Minghella interviews Sydney Pollack
		Sydney Pollack is an American filmmaker who has worked on the fringes of Hollywood for all of his career, never part of the ‘system’ nor fully independent.
		Sydney’s early career as a director was largely guided by an actor that can be described as a Hollywood great.
		However it was only when Sydney was talking to the writer, for several days, that they came upon the idea that for the central character "being a woman had made him more of a man".
	www.projector.demon.co.uk /netb.html (955 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| ENTERTAINMENT > Sydney Pollack takes on two jobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pollack, however, is best remembered for directing classic romantic movies like The Way We Were (1973) and Out of Africa (1985).
		The two are so close Pollack could persuade Redford to appear in a project he was directing, even if the script didn’t appeal to the star.
		Pollack is proud of the fact that his directing style is old Hollywood.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/oct/11/yehey/enter/mainent.html (1273 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Sydney Pollack took the direct approach
		Sydney Pollack's dad wanted him to become a dentist.
		Pollack also owes many of his early career breaks to gaining the attention of people in power.
		Decades later, when access to the UN was his goal, Pollack phoned ''everybody [he] knew," including a Wall Street friend who happened to be pals with former senator Bob Kerry, who happened to be buddies with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2005/04/17/sydney_pollack_took_the_direct_approach (515 words)

	Morning Edition -- Leadership in America
		Actor and director Sydney Pollack was born on July 1, 1934.
		Pollack has gone on to make some of the most memorable films of the past 20 years, including Tootsie, The Electric Horseman, with Robert Redford, The Way We Were, with Redford and Barbra Streisand, and produced many others.
		Listen to NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with Sydney Pollack about his life as an actor and as an actor's director in this full-length interview.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2000/oct/001017.leadership.html (212 words)

	Sydney Pollack hosts TCM's 'The Essentials' - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Coates filmed Pollack on a sound stage in Culver City, talking against a ripple of giant screens containing vivid moving images from the selected movies.
		Pollack knew some of those "director superstars." He appeared in "Eyes Wide Shut," the final film by Stanley Kubrick, whose "2001: A Space Odyssey" is one of his "essentials."
		Pollack describes his taste as a producer as "oddball." His goal is to provide opportunities for new talent and raise money for non-mainstream projects.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_129416.html (793 words)

	Sydney Pollack Profile Page
		Pollack again proved his skill at handling period drama four years later with The Way We Were, a popular romantic drama starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.
		Pollack was back on top in 1993 with The Firm, a successful adaptation of John Grisham's thriller that starred Tom Cruise.
		In 1999, Pollack and Ford reunited to make Random Hearts, a drama about a man and a woman who discover their respective spouses - who died in a plane crash - were lovers.
	www.movieseer.com /DirectorProfileBil.asp?dID=375&Channel=2 (546 words)

	Filmmaker Sydney Pollack, Doing What He Hates Best (washingtonpost.com)
		Whether his movies break box-office records or flop worse than "Ishtar," Sydney Pollack has the same feelings about making them: fear and misery.
		Sean Penn, left, and Nicole Kidman confer with director Sydney Pollack on the set of "The Interpreter," a thriller of international intrigue set at the United Nations.
		Pollack persuaded the world body to grant him access for filming, the first time the U.N. has agreed to do so.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A8066-2005Apr21.html (1546 words)

	IGN: Interview: Sydney Pollack
		But five films and twenty years later, Pollack returns not only to the expansive opportunities of widescreen moviemaking, but the prominence he once held as a leading purveyor of intelligent, adult-oriented entertainment.
		Pollack recently sat down with IGN DVD to discuss the development and design of this hot-button political thriller, which debuts on DVD October 4, 2005.
		Sydney Pollack on The Interpreter, DVD and directing.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/654/654745p1.html (303 words)

	Hollywood Film Festival® - Sydney Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pollack's work as a producer is a showcase of a wide variety of successful, popular, and highly regarded films.
		Pollack has produced over the past fifteen years include Random Hearts, Havana, Sabrina, and The Firm, all of which he directed, Sliding Doors, directed by Peter Howitt, Leaving Normal, directed by Ed Zwick, Flesh and Bone, directed by Steven Kloves, and Bright Lights, Big City, directed by James Bridges.
		Sydney Pollack is a founding member of the Sundance Institute, the Chairman Emeritus of the American Cinematheque, a sustaining founder of the Film Foundation of the Directors Guild of America, and a member of the board of directors for the Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation.
	www.hollywoodawards.com /pollack (376 words)

	Sydney Pollack Interprets His Long Career (phillyBurbs.com) \| Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NEW YORK - Sydney Pollack is an actor-turned-director who doesn't mind returning to other side of the camera.
		Clips from those films and several others were shown during the two-hour Tribeca Talks event, with Pollack providing verbose, animated anecdotes in between.
		As for his own role in that movie, Pollack said Hoffman talked him into it by repeatedly sending him roses with a note reading, "Please be my agent.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/80-04212005-479390.html (547 words)

	Sydney Pollack - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sydney Pollack (born July 1 1934) is an American actor, producer, and director.
		Making Tootsie: A Film Study With Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack
		Tribeca Talks: The Interpreter: A Conversation with Sydney Pollack
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sydney_pollack.htm (160 words)

	iFMagazine.com News - SYDNEY POLLACK TO BE HONORED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Sydney Pollack is a longtime proponent of artists rights both in this country and abroad," Artists Rights Foundation president Elliot Silverstein said.
		Pollack, a longtime opponent of colorizing fl-and-white movies, told a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1987 that "it is morally unacceptable to alter the product of a person's creative life without that person's permission."
		"Sydney's love of film is reflected in his extraordinary body of work," Barbra Streisand said.
	www.ifmagazine.com /new.asp?article=1213 (375 words)

	Sydney Pollack
		After graduating from his Indiana high school, he went to New York and became a student at the Neighborhood Playhouse, a celebrated Greenwich Village school, where he studied under Sanford Meisner.
		Young won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor while Pollack and Fonda were nominated for Best Director and Best Actress, respectively.
		The film scored a Best Director Oscar nomination for Pollack, as well as a win in the same category from the New York Critics Film Circle.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P106775 (563 words)

	Sydney Pollack News
		News about Sydney Pollack continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Follow the career of director, Sydney Pollack through interviews with his best friend Robert Redford and the man himself.
		PRESS RELEASE: Sydney Pollack and Irwin Winkler, among other film personalities, are scheduled to contribute to a thought-provoking series of conversations in the 2005 Tribeca Talks Series from Sunday, April 24...
	rss.topix.net /who/sydney-pollack (547 words)

	ABC News: Sydney Pollack Interprets His Long Career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sydney Pollack Interprets Varied Career As His New Film Comes to Tribeca Fest
		NEW YORK Apr 21, 2005 — Sydney Pollack is an actor-turned-director who doesn't mind returning to other side of the camera.
		He studied with Sanford Meisner and briefly taught acting before moving to Hollywood to direct television series including "Ben Casey" and "The Fugitive" and he admits he learned on the job.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=691806 (369 words)

	Random Hearts
		Born in Lafayette, Ind., in 1934, Sydney Pollack started out studying with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and then briefly served as an acting coach at the school.
		When Pollack decided to make the move to directing, Redford was eager to work with him.
		In addition to directing for film and television, Pollack is also an accomplished producer and actor, starring in films like The Player, Death Becomes Her and Eyes Wide Shut.
	www.tnt.tv /title/0,,332545-3041,00.html (300 words)

	PBS: Think Tank: A Conversation with Sydney Pollack
		Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg visits the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, to sit down with Sydney Pollack, one of America's foremost film directors.
		Over the course of a career that spans more than three decades, Pollack has directed such memorable films as "The Way We Were" (1973), "Tootsie" (1982), and "The Firm" (1993).
		Pollack joins Think Tank to discuss his life, his work, and the business of making movies.
	www.pbs.org /thinktank/show_896.html (200 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: The Directors - Sydney Pollack (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This incisive documentary traces the long, varied career of Sydney Pollack, whose movies have been nominated for 46 Academy Awards.
		Extensive interviews with Pollack get inside the mind of a hard-working man dedicated to his craft.
		On a personal note, Pollack confesses to having had a crush on Natalie Wood, star of This Property Is Condemned.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1572527730?v=glance (595 words)

	The Interpreter (2005): Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Sydney Pollack
		The Interpreter (2005): Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Sydney Pollack
		"Pollack thinks six moves ahead and distracts us with further intensity before unveiling his masterful rendezvous with all the major players and a city bus."
		"Pollack becomes so caught up in the machinations of plot that he allows the politics to boil down into simplistic mush."
	ofcs.rottentomatoes.com /movie-1144732/reviews.php (1045 words)

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