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Article: Sydney Pollack: A TRIBUTE
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- July 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Empire Productions & Publishing Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This May, our profession and industry lost one of its giants with the passing of revered producer, director and performer Sydney Pollack. Sydney's status as a passionate storyteller, consummate craftsman and champion of young talent are, by now, a matter of record, woven so thoroughly into the fabric of contemporary Hollywood that to repeat them is to risk stating the obvious.
Rather than craft an impersonal obituary, Produced by has invited a number of Sydney's colleagues and collaborators within the Producers Guild to share their remembrances of him. Through his work, Sydney revealed himself as zealous and unerring seeker of truth - no matter whether that truth should be dramatic, ...