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    Pollack also played memorable parts in Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives (1992), and Robert Altman’s The Player (1992). "A tall, handsome, immediately charismatic man, he was a director most actors loved to work with, because when he talked to them about acting he knew what he was talking about" wrote prominent US film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times. Full Article at Irish Examiner
    A tall, handsome, immediately charismatic man, he was a director most actors loved to work with, because when he talked to them about acting he knew what he was talking about
    SOURCE: Irish Examiner 18 months ago
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Tributes as Pollack, 73, dies after cancer battle
  1. A tip of the hat to a class act. He’ll be missed terribly.
    SOURCE: Irish Examiner 18 months ago
  2. I was shocked at the success of both Tootsie and Out of Africa
    SOURCE: Irish Examiner 18 months ago
  3. Sydney’s and my relationship — both professionally and personally — covers 40 years ... It’s too personal to express in a soundbite.
    Robert Redford – Robert Redford SOURCE: Irish Examiner 18 months ago
  4. Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a little better
    George Clooney – George Clooney SOURCE: Irish Examiner 18 months ago
  5. They are completely different genres — contemporary New York comedy about theatre actors and then this kind of old-fashioned epic romance
    SOURCE: Irish Examiner 18 months ago
  6. But I think of Out of Africa as closer to the movies I grew up loving. They did more of those then. They don’t make so many now.
    SOURCE: Irish Examiner 18 months ago

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