The director, producer and sometime actor's star-laden movies also included The Way We Were and Out of Africa -- among the most successful films of the 1970s and ’80s, The New York Times says. Pollack died of cancer today at his Los Angeles home. He was 73.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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Pollack also directed the 1981 film "Absence of Malice," in which journalism ethics are scrutinized and Wilford Brimley steals the picture.
ReplyDeleteI thought Pollack wes great in The Sopranos as Dr. Warren Feldman, the oncologist-wife murderer who gave the cancer-ridden John Sacrimoni second opinons in between mopping floors as a prison orderly. Feldman told Sacrimoni that he had killed his unfaithful wife and her aunt. He added that he had to kill the mailman too, because at that point he had to ''fully commit''
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