RIP

Sydney Pollack died Sunday after a 9 month bout with cancer. Director of such films as The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor + Absence of Malice, his later work included Tootsie, The Firm, Sabrina + The Interpreter. Sadly, I will remember him most for his work in the promos @ theaters walking in on the guy whose crying and breaking up with his girlfriend in the 'I'm sorry is my directing interrupting your phone call' to stamp out rampant douche baggery in movie theaters. I guess if I had to go, that's how I'd want to be remembered. That or the Michael Bay 'Awesome' ads for Verizon FiOS tv service. Pollack had a long illustrious [and AWESOME] career that has pretty much been dormant since I was a born - not to say he hasn't worked or his work declined, just that the bulk of the work occured before the 80s - and for that I apologize. And good sir, we finally have an answer to that age old question - no they don't shoot horses, they just give them really big shots after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby.
He leaves behind a wife, 3 children and 2 eyebrows still seeking to challenge Martin Scorcese's for interstellar domination. Sydney Pollack was 73.