Uma grande perda
Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including "The Way We Were" and "Tootsie," died Monday. He was 73.
Mr. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor, died of cancer at his home in the Pacific Palisades district of the city, according to Leslee Dart, his publicist and friend.
Beginning with "The Slender Thread," a 1965 drama starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft, Mr. Pollack was credited with directing 20 films, including "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" - a 1969 drama about Depression-era marathon dancers starring Jane Fonda that earned Mr. Pollack an Oscar nomination for best director.
Mr. Pollack directed seven movies with Robert Redford, beginning with "This Property Is Condemned" (with Natalie Wood) in 1966.
The Pollack-Redford collaboration also produced "The Way We Were" (with Barbra Streisand), "Jeremiah Johnson," "Three Days of the Condor" (with Faye Dunaway), "The Electric Horseman" (with Fonda), "Out of Africa" (with Meryl Streep) and "Havana."
As a filmmaker, Mr. Pollack had a reputation for being a painstaking craftsman - "relentless and meticulous," screenwriter and friend Robert Towne once said.
"Out of Africa," the 1985 drama based on Danish author Isak Dinesen's experiences in Kenya during the early part of the 20th century and her romance with English big-game hunter-adventurer Denys Finch Hatton, earned Mr. Pollack two Academy Awards: as director and as producer of the film, which won the best picture Oscar.
As an actor, Mr. Pollack appeared in a number of films, including Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives," Robert Altman's "The Player," Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" and the recent Oscar-nominated Tony Gilroy film "Michael Clayton." Mr. Pollack also turned up in guest roles on TV series such as "Frasier," "Will & Grace" and "The Sopranos."
Mr. Pollack's experience as an actor and acting teacher helped earn him a reputation as an "actor's director."
The son of a pharmacist, Mr. Pollack was born July 1, 1934, in Lafayette, Ind., and later moved with his family to South Bend.
His parents divorced while he was growing up, and his mother, who "had emotional problems and became an alcoholic," died when Mr. Pollack was 16. Although his father envisioned him becoming a dentist, Mr. Pollack left home after graduating from high school and moved to New York to become an actor.
His most recent film was a departure: "Sketches of Frank Gehry," a feature-length documentary released in 2006 about his friend, the renowned architect whose work includes the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
He met his wife, Claire, when he was teaching and she was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse. They were married in 1958 and had three children, Rebecca, Rachel and Steven. Steven died in a plane crash in 1993.
Mr. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor, died of cancer at his home in the Pacific Palisades district of the city, according to Leslee Dart, his publicist and friend.
Beginning with "The Slender Thread," a 1965 drama starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft, Mr. Pollack was credited with directing 20 films, including "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" - a 1969 drama about Depression-era marathon dancers starring Jane Fonda that earned Mr. Pollack an Oscar nomination for best director.
Mr. Pollack directed seven movies with Robert Redford, beginning with "This Property Is Condemned" (with Natalie Wood) in 1966.
The Pollack-Redford collaboration also produced "The Way We Were" (with Barbra Streisand), "Jeremiah Johnson," "Three Days of the Condor" (with Faye Dunaway), "The Electric Horseman" (with Fonda), "Out of Africa" (with Meryl Streep) and "Havana."
As a filmmaker, Mr. Pollack had a reputation for being a painstaking craftsman - "relentless and meticulous," screenwriter and friend Robert Towne once said.
"Out of Africa," the 1985 drama based on Danish author Isak Dinesen's experiences in Kenya during the early part of the 20th century and her romance with English big-game hunter-adventurer Denys Finch Hatton, earned Mr. Pollack two Academy Awards: as director and as producer of the film, which won the best picture Oscar.
As an actor, Mr. Pollack appeared in a number of films, including Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives," Robert Altman's "The Player," Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" and the recent Oscar-nominated Tony Gilroy film "Michael Clayton." Mr. Pollack also turned up in guest roles on TV series such as "Frasier," "Will & Grace" and "The Sopranos."
Mr. Pollack's experience as an actor and acting teacher helped earn him a reputation as an "actor's director."
The son of a pharmacist, Mr. Pollack was born July 1, 1934, in Lafayette, Ind., and later moved with his family to South Bend.
His parents divorced while he was growing up, and his mother, who "had emotional problems and became an alcoholic," died when Mr. Pollack was 16. Although his father envisioned him becoming a dentist, Mr. Pollack left home after graduating from high school and moved to New York to become an actor.
His most recent film was a departure: "Sketches of Frank Gehry," a feature-length documentary released in 2006 about his friend, the renowned architect whose work includes the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
He met his wife, Claire, when he was teaching and she was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse. They were married in 1958 and had three children, Rebecca, Rachel and Steven. Steven died in a plane crash in 1993.
Já a angelina dizia e com razão...
sunny days at the beach
Bom, todas nós já estamos inteiradas da missão de vida tomada a cabo pelo Mel-Salvador-das-Almas-Tresmalhadas-Gibson depois de anos de abuso de alcool, ácidos e outras drogas à disposição..
Ora, o seu último school-project é, none other, do que a M.inM. Top Ten Best Dressed Winner Britney Spears.
Assim...
"Britney Spears and Mel Gibson are headed to Costa Rica where they will vacation with the singer's father and Gibson's wife, a source told People magazine. "They're just going away for a few days to relax," the source said.The group plan to stay at Gibson's Costa Rican home. They will be back early next week. The unlikely pair were first spotted together back in mid-March when they dined at Russian restaurant Romanov in Studio City, Calif. However, it wasn't their first meeting. Gibson and Spears and their families met many times after the pop star was hospitalized in February, a different source told People at the time.
"Mel and his wife Robin clearly saw a woman in crisis and wanted to extend themselves in any way possible," the source said."
A minha pergunta é: esta gente conversará acerca de quê?!?!
Ora, o seu último school-project é, none other, do que a M.inM. Top Ten Best Dressed Winner Britney Spears.
Assim...
"Britney Spears and Mel Gibson are headed to Costa Rica where they will vacation with the singer's father and Gibson's wife, a source told People magazine. "They're just going away for a few days to relax," the source said.The group plan to stay at Gibson's Costa Rican home. They will be back early next week. The unlikely pair were first spotted together back in mid-March when they dined at Russian restaurant Romanov in Studio City, Calif. However, it wasn't their first meeting. Gibson and Spears and their families met many times after the pop star was hospitalized in February, a different source told People at the time.
"Mel and his wife Robin clearly saw a woman in crisis and wanted to extend themselves in any way possible," the source said."
A minha pergunta é: esta gente conversará acerca de quê?!?!
Saramago @ Cannes
How cool is that?!?!?
"Directed by Brazil's Fernando Meirelles (City of God), scripted by Toronto's Don McKellar (Last Night), and starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, McKellar, Alice Braga and Gael García Bernal, Blindness never fails to impress for the quality of its acting and the astuteness of its observations of social fragility. "
"Directed by Brazil's Fernando Meirelles (City of God), scripted by Toronto's Don McKellar (Last Night), and starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, McKellar, Alice Braga and Gael García Bernal, Blindness never fails to impress for the quality of its acting and the astuteness of its observations of social fragility. "
It's out!
Metropolitan Costume Institute Gala - The bad
Metropolitan Costume Institute Gala - The good
Já sei que nenhuma das minhas fellow bloggers vai concordar com a minha escolha, mas não posso de deixar de admirar o vestido da Beyonce (que prima pela sua desabitual discrição). da Eva (que é todo um mergulho em curvas e contra-curvas de uma cor linda) e finalmente da Christina... Vão-me perdoar mas eu apaixonei-me pelo vestido!
Battle of the black beauties
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