Comments on: RIP Sydney Pollack (Updated, Again) http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2008/05/26/rip-sydney-pollack/ It's hip to be moribund! Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:46:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: bob http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2008/05/26/rip-sydney-pollack/#comment-28886 bob Wed, 28 May 2008 04:10:14 +0000 http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2008/05/26/rip-sydney-pollack/#comment-28886 I think the trick with Pollack as an actor and maybe as a director as well was was that, while tackling interesting issues, he kept it really simple. Like, "I'm just this guy who wants to get this annoying actor a job" or "I'm just this guy whose part of a satanic sex ring" -- in both cases, he was still "just this guy. I think the trick with Pollack as an actor and maybe as a director as well was was that, while tackling interesting issues, he kept it really simple. Like, “I’m just this guy who wants to get this annoying actor a job” or “I’m just this guy whose part of a satanic sex ring” — in both cases, he was still “just this guy.

]]> By: Zayne http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2008/05/26/rip-sydney-pollack/#comment-28881 Zayne Tue, 27 May 2008 18:06:37 +0000 http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2008/05/26/rip-sydney-pollack/#comment-28881 I forgot to add Tootsie to his prime run as a director! I forgot to add Tootsie to his prime run as a director!

]]> By: Zayne http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2008/05/26/rip-sydney-pollack/#comment-28880 Zayne Tue, 27 May 2008 18:02:36 +0000 http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2008/05/26/rip-sydney-pollack/#comment-28880 I was deeply saddened to hear of his passing as well. I think that he quietly built up one of the strongest and most varied bodies of work of his generation. Even if his directing projects after Out of Africa were uneven, he had a run from They Shoot Horses, Don't They? to The Electric Horseman (which I like a great deal) that most would give their right arm to call their own. I found one of the funniest, and most astute, appreciations of his talents as a world class character actor while browsing The Onion's A.V. Club - "Think of him in Tootsie vs Eyes Wide Shut. I can't think of anyone who just through nuance could convey "down to earth" and "completely monkey-shit evil pretending to be down to earth" depending on the demands of the role." I was deeply saddened to hear of his passing as well. I think that he quietly built up one of the strongest and most varied bodies of work of his generation. Even if his directing projects after Out of Africa were uneven, he had a run from They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? to The Electric Horseman (which I like a great deal) that most would give their right arm to call their own.

I found one of the funniest, and most astute, appreciations of his talents as a world class character actor while browsing The Onion’s A.V. Club -

“Think of him in Tootsie vs Eyes Wide Shut. I can’t think of anyone who just through nuance could convey “down to earth” and “completely monkey-shit evil pretending to be down to earth” depending on the demands of the role.”

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