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Sydney Pollack, Hollywood Film Director, Is Dead at 73

Sydney Pollack, a former stage actor who rose to direct a series of highly commercial and star-laden pictures in the 1970s and 1980, died May 27 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 73. Full Article at Playbill

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