Topic: Sydney Pollack

Amazing Grace, the documentary film by the late Sydney Pollack on the making of Aretha Franklin's live gospel album of the same name, has been...

'Robert Redford,' by Michael Feeney Callan

0 View Larger Image Robert Redford The Biography By Michael Feeney Callan (Alfred A. Knopf; 468 pages; $28.95) . In Sydney Pollack's 1975 film ...

Indie films

0 View Larger Image . On paper, the slate of independent and smaller films for the new year looks promising. Represented are a number of directors...

Sydney Pollack

Actor, director and producer Sydney Pollack worked consistently in the entertainment industry since the mid-1960s. Pollack died of cancer on May 26, 2008.After appearing in a number of stage productions in New York, and teaching theater in the late 1950s , Pollack ...

Movie reviews: Bobby Deerfield

Dave Grusin's sometimes jazzy and often emotional soundtrack may be the only saving grace for Al Pacino 's obscure 1978 film Bobby Deerfield. Racecar driver Bobby Deerfield ( Al Pacino ) is distraught and confused after the death of a good friend on ...

Family Room Styles

Family room styles vary, reflecting the people who own the home. For professional families with no children, a family room offers a separate space in which to watch TV or take care of work brought home from the office. Sectional couches and ...

How Becoming a Movie Director Works

The world premiere of Steven Spielberg's first feature film, "Firelight," was a gala event in March 1964. The lead actors and the director arrived...

Dick Wolf Gets A Book Deal

Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is nothing if not prolific.. Staying largely on theme, his plot for the first will revolve around a terrorist attack planned for his native New York City over a crowded July 4th weekend, and features the Joint ...

Out of Africa

Out of Africa, Sydney Pollack . Set in the early 1900s and derived from events in the life of Karen Blixen-Finecke, Out of Africa stars Meryl Streep (AAN) as a Danish woman who moves to East Africa and establishes a coffee plantation with ...

Who were your mentors?

My first mentors were teachers and scoutmasters, and I think it had a lot to do with my sense of the importance of nature; it had a lot to do with my sense of what a true and just and useful man ...