http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/05/26/sydney-pollack-1934-2008.aspxSydney Pollack has died at the age of 73, ending a recent struggle with cancer. As a young theater buff, Pollack, who grew up in South Bend, Indiana, went to New York after graduating high school and enrolled at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of theenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/05/26/sydney-pollack-1934-2008.aspx#96590Tue, 27 May 2008 12:37:19 GMTbd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:96590Andrew Osborne<p>Like Divine and Robert Altman, this is one of those celebrity deaths that make me as sad as if I actually knew the person.</p> <p>Sydney Pollack, both as an actor and as a director, was such a constant, avuncular presence during the course of my movie-going life that I really will miss him. &nbsp;He represented a level of class and professionalism in pop culture that's in desperately short supply.</p> <p>&quot;You were a tomato!!!!!!&quot;</p> <img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=96590" width="1" height="1">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/05/26/sydney-pollack-1934-2008.aspx#96551Tue, 27 May 2008 02:55:16 GMTbd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:96551danrimage<p>I had forgotten he was responsible for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and Jeremiah Johnson, quite simply two of the finest American films made in the latter half of the 20th century. </p> <p>Sad news. R.I.P.</p> <img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=96551" width="1" height="1">