Director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer - CNN.com (May 26, 2008)

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

RIP.

I really enjoyed some of his movies.

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John J.
Member Christ Prebyterian Church (OPC)
Salt Lake City, Utah
www.christpres.net

Me too. Not only was he a great director/producer, but his acting abilities were also quite good.

I loved his uncredited cameo appearance as a doctor in Death Becomes Her.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

The very first movie I ever seen was directed by Pollack back in 72. It was Jeremiah Johnson. My sister and her soon to be husband took me to see it. One of the best out door movies I had ever seen. Still love it.

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Tom Mitchell
Opp, AL
Member of First Presbyterian Church PCA Florala, AL

Open profaneness is the broad dirty way which leads to hell
--but trusting in religious duties is a sure way, though a cleaner way to hell. ~ Thomas Brooks
www.myspace.com/tom_mitchell1960
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607055102

Oh, my goodness. I am very, VERY sad right now.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

Oh, man. He was an artist who will no longer make art.


I'm sorry, he was really one of my favorites. He produced Michael Clayton, The Quiet American, directed some and acted some as well. He recently had been working a lot with Steven Soderbergh and the late Anthony Minghella.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

I guess no one has seen (or would admit to seeing) "Eyes Wide Shut." He played a doctor and I believe the Grand Puhbah.

Interestingly, that movie never made sense until I read "Davinci Code" and found what all those rituals were.

*I watched at an earlier time in life.

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Erick Bohndorf, Covenant Baptist Church, KS
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
The question for us today is, will we be like the majority of Israel and continue to look in fear at the giants in the land and urge our fellow Christians to be "realistic," or will we be like Joshua and Caleb and faithfully follow our king, trusting to fulfill every one of his promises completely?

Yes, I too saw Eyes Wide Shut at a different stage of maturity. I actually really liked Pollack's role: he was creepy and menacing - probably the most interesting character in the film. Actually, for a Christmas movie in New York it's pretty great - the lights and color are excellent.

Pollack was one of those directors who almost always made very good to great films. He mainly worked with adult dramas and thrillers, but he also gave us a great comedy in Tootsie. I would put him right up there with Scorsese and Spielberg as my favorite directors...

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Mason
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA)
New York, NY

"Come now, and let us reason together," says the Lord, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." - Isaiah 1:18

I have never seen Tootsie - have I not lived?

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Jonathan Hunt

Preaching Elder
Cheltenham Evangelical Free Church (Confessionally Based)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
-- Thomas Elsworth

I didin't realize, or have forgotten, the Pollack directed this film. It's one of my top favorites. I've viewed it many times.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor * Maranatha Baptist Church * Poplar Grove, Illinois USA www.maranatha-sbc.org/
"Mankind is divided into two sorts: such as live according to man, and such as live according to God. These we call the two cities...The Heavenly City outshines Rome. There, instead of victory, is truth" — Augustine of Hippo

You have lived.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor * Maranatha Baptist Church * Poplar Grove, Illinois USA www.maranatha-sbc.org/
"Mankind is divided into two sorts: such as live according to man, and such as live according to God. These we call the two cities...The Heavenly City outshines Rome. There, instead of victory, is truth" — Augustine of Hippo