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Sydney Pollack - “Is My Directing Interfering with Your Phone Call?”
by Cingular
The Pitch: In memory of the late actor/filmmaker Sydney Pollack, here is a in-theater anti-cell phone public service announcement Pollack recorded for Cingular.
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Director Sydney Pollack passed away today due to cancer at his home in Los Angeles. He was 73.
Notable films as a director: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (nominated: Best Director 1970), Tootsie (nominated: Best Director/Best Picture 1982), Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, The Firm, Jeremiah Johnson, Out of Africa (Winner: Best Director/Best Picture 1986)
As a producer: Recount, The Quiet American, Forty Shades of Blue, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Searching For Bobby Fischer (!), King Ralph (!!), Sense and Sensibility
Pollack was recently praised for his supporting performance in the Best Picture nominee Michael Clayton. He also appeared on The Sopranos in a small but [...]

Oscar winner Sydney Pollack (Tootsie) tells Helen De Winter in her upcoming book that movies are like Fast Food now-a-days:
“Beginnings and endings are not interesting, audiences want the high point, which means you’ve got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick,” Pollack says. “What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.”
Pollack has a point, especially in a day and age when the Hollywood studios are rushing over 200 movies into production to avoid strike-conflicts. I’m sure many of those movies are not ready for primetime. And I’m [...]