The Way He Was
Or
Out of Everywhere
Or
They Bury Corpses, Don't They?
(Kudos to Joe)
Or
Doesn't Have Logic; Can't Move
(Additional accolades for Joe)
Sydney Pollack, director of popular star-driven ‘70s and ‘80s dreck, has died from cancer at the age of 73. His first film, starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft, was The Slender Thread, about a social work student coaxing a woman out of suicide on a help line, a plot so complex it was later recycled as an episode of Family Ties. He started his 40-year collaboration with Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson, depicting the fair-haired blond pretty boy as an earthy mountain man, then inflicted the one-two punch of Barbra Streisand and Redford in The Way We Were (good luck trying to get that song out of your head today). A rare critical success was Absence of Malice, an indictment of at all costs investigative reporting – ironically a slap at Redford’s All the President’s Men, but he returned to form with his magnum opus Tootsie, then more Redford in Out of Africa. He scored an Oscar as Best Director for Out of Africa after nominations for They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and Tootsie. Other questionable efforts included Havana, his last duet with Redford, the remake of Sabrina, Random Hearts, The Interpreter and the Firm. He also acted a bit, as a corrupt attorney in Michael Clayton, Tom Cruise’s morally bankrupt co-conspirator in Eyes Wide Shut, and Will’s womanizing father on Will & Grace.
As the GHI is all about finding the silver lining in the recently departed, his passing allows me to recast seeing Made of Honor in the theater as a tribute to Pollack’s last screen appearance, and not just me having to endure my wife’s horrific taste in movies as a trade-off to get to see Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls on opening weekend.
Finding even silverer lining were Greg’s Team Matlock, moving into 4th, Steve@themovies, taking 8th, and Jenni’s This Year Has to Be Better Than Last Year pulls into the tie at 26th. For those curious, Jenni finished 22nd last year.
Out of Everywhere
Or
They Bury Corpses, Don't They?
(Kudos to Joe)
Or
Doesn't Have Logic; Can't Move
(Additional accolades for Joe)
Sydney Pollack, director of popular star-driven ‘70s and ‘80s dreck, has died from cancer at the age of 73. His first film, starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft, was The Slender Thread, about a social work student coaxing a woman out of suicide on a help line, a plot so complex it was later recycled as an episode of Family Ties. He started his 40-year collaboration with Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson, depicting the fair-haired blond pretty boy as an earthy mountain man, then inflicted the one-two punch of Barbra Streisand and Redford in The Way We Were (good luck trying to get that song out of your head today). A rare critical success was Absence of Malice, an indictment of at all costs investigative reporting – ironically a slap at Redford’s All the President’s Men, but he returned to form with his magnum opus Tootsie, then more Redford in Out of Africa. He scored an Oscar as Best Director for Out of Africa after nominations for They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and Tootsie. Other questionable efforts included Havana, his last duet with Redford, the remake of Sabrina, Random Hearts, The Interpreter and the Firm. He also acted a bit, as a corrupt attorney in Michael Clayton, Tom Cruise’s morally bankrupt co-conspirator in Eyes Wide Shut, and Will’s womanizing father on Will & Grace.
As the GHI is all about finding the silver lining in the recently departed, his passing allows me to recast seeing Made of Honor in the theater as a tribute to Pollack’s last screen appearance, and not just me having to endure my wife’s horrific taste in movies as a trade-off to get to see Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls on opening weekend.
Finding even silverer lining were Greg’s Team Matlock, moving into 4th, Steve@themovies, taking 8th, and Jenni’s This Year Has to Be Better Than Last Year pulls into the tie at 26th. For those curious, Jenni finished 22nd last year.
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