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Message Posted: May 27, 2008 12:29:03 AM
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved commercial and critical success with the gender-bending comedy "Tootsie" and the period drama "Out of Africa, has died. He was 73.
Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, surrounded by family, said agent Leslee Dart. He had been diagnosed with cancer about nine months ago, said Dart.
Director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer
[Edited by: SUV4GUY at 5/27/2008 12:29:30 AM EST]
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