Zedly!

Wait, is it time?

Sydney was a great one. Always witty , never stupid. Can’t say that about many directors. Even the good ones.

special schedule tonight wangdang

rip sidney pollack

I’m in a dark mood tonight anyway.

It’s git’n on that time of year where I think of; a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

tootsie is one of my desert island films

I was thinking about that yesterday when my block lost electricity most of the day. 98 in the shade.

Three Days of the Condor

Blessed Be. May the Goddess guide him on his journey to the Summerlands. May his family, friends and those of us who knew him through his work find Peace. Blessed Be.

Not that I would trade you, but the high here was 63 today and that is warmer than it has been for about a week.

Welcome themomcat. You new to FDL?

welcome thermocat… i’ve not seen ya here at nite before so excuse me if you have already been welcomed

if ya have any questions, just ask :)

I’d settle for 83 in a heartbeat.

FORK make that themomcat.. my apoligies for messing up your name

It was well over 90 today, and humid as the ninth ring of Hell. This heat already does not bode well for Gulf temps, and hurricane season starts in a week. Yipee!

dugg

a pleasant 64 here today

A great one! my condolences to Rachel.

dugg!

and welcome themomcat

bright blessings

Yikes, 88 here in Cleveland/

On the other hand the cool, wet weather we are having possibly bodes well for an uneventful fire season in late July and August.

Well, thermocat would be a good handle, too.

Welcome momcat, stick around, we’ll grow on you!

82 today, 72 yesterday & Saturday….. probably the coolest Memorial Day in Phoenix since I moved back here……

Oh, I fucked that up big time. And I can’t even blame haloscan!

I meant to reply…

Did I read 11 named ones expected this season?

I think it’s more than that, but not sure on the exact number. Whatever, it’s more than usual. Blech!

fork

Thank you Sidney Pollack, for The Electric Horseman and for Jeremiah Johnson.

oh gosh, i haven’t seen the electric horseman in years. i loved that movie (but didn’t like the ending)

Sydney Pollack

I tried asking this question this morning and didn’t get any response. I’ll try asking this evening.

Political segregation. The LA times had a good story about it today. I certainly think it’s real and I’ve felt its attraction.

Here’s a link.

I’ve done it again. I was having an e-mail exchange with a guy I know in Florida and he was saying McCain was the best of the three candidates. After a heated exchanged, I blocked his e-mail address in my mail app, and I’m done. I don’t give a shit about that crap any more.

I’m done with people who are blind, following sheep, listening to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, et al. They regurgiutate Repuke talking points like baptists regurgitate revelations.

I’m not thrilled with the choices we have this year. Clinton is a female Joe Lieberman, she should run as a republican. Obama is the best of a bad lot. But he’s going to be the nominee, and I’ll vote for him.

The fact is, republicans are all evil, greedy, stupid people who don’t care about anybody but themselves and their cronies. I wouldn’t piss down the throat of a republican if it was dying of thirst. And I sure as SHIT won’t associate with any republican as a “friend.”

I know it sounds harsh, but that’s what I think about it. I can’t hold with idiots any more. Anyone else find themselves shedding people who think McCain is their guy?

Pollack retained his exploration of the dark in his later work, but it wasn’t that the films themselves were dark as much as we the audience that was dark, and he spoke to that darkness.

Tootsie, for example, spoke to our inability to see beyond gender stereotypes as well as other stereotypes; the characters were light-hearted, but the conflict was less about them than it was about us and our need to force people into neat boxes by gender and function. Ditto for Sabrina, which spoke to our conflicts about social class; perhaps Pollack felt we’d not yet made progress or regressed since the original Sabrina.

Even Out of Africa looked at our inner darkness with regard to stereotyping women’s roles, relationships, and races. Pollack managed to ask us to look at these issues through the lens of passion and personality, so that they weren’t sterile abstractions, and he did it successfully.

gosh, even little ole me?

You’re not a Mccain supporter, Suze. :D

Think I will call it a night. Take care all.

but i am an republican

g’nite dr dick

G’nite, Dr. D – good dreams.

Nite DrDick….. also taking my tired old body to bed….. Nite everyone

Pollock was one of my favorite Directors, and perhaps in mylist of top two or three favorite modern American Directors. I have to admit that I didn’t really like his pathos driven “relationship” films…but “Out of Africa” was an exception. Great comedies (Tootsie, Cat Ballou)…and his suspenses were also great (Condor…and even the Interpreter, which was not a commercial success).

The news is bad when I have to scroll down to find the information I am looking for America number 37 in infant mortality rates.

http://www.geographyiq.com/ran…..e_aall.htm

Proposed way for democrats to handle the Abortion issue
We will worry about the abortion of children who the parents do not want and that society and the GOP are unwilling to pay for.
After we save all the kids that parents do want in this country with National Healthcare.
Sure we cannot expect to save every child but come on NUMBER 37 in Infant Mortality rates! Come on America You Know That We can Do Better.

g’nite katymine

Old Hatchet Jack gave me the creeps when I was a kid.

-G

Cat Ballou

that movie made me love lee marvin

‘nite Dr. Dick, ‘nite katy.

What a good run! Since I grew up mostly in Montana, the family favorite was always Jeremiah Johnson, Mountain Man, but I preferred Bobby Deerfield.

Since we’re on the topic of cinema, did everyone get a chance to read Nancy Dowd’s fantastic, venomous letter in the current Vanity Fair? I haven’t seen a pen so poison since Gore Vidal belittled Dominick Dunne. Keep ‘em comin’, Nancy Dowd!

Well you don’t counbt then because you’ve figured it out. You don’t spout Bush talking points and clearly you don’t support the war.

what (or who) was she going after?

Tho equally endowed with propaganda, I must say, i think, that the 20th century had much greater depth in its’ films. The only recent film that I have seen is Bangkok Dangerous. Superficially I felt that the movie was inept. Analytically I found it to be most enduring.

What, we’re not NUMBER ONE!!!

???

(fuck, i’m in a pissy tonight)

Jeremiah Johnson has always been one of my very favorite movies, on my personal list of top 5.

The news of Pollack’s passing was a moment of sorrow for me. That kind of sorrow that’s breath taking in it’s scope, but also just stunning in that I never knew this man, and yet he touched my life in one huge manner! THAT odd moment, the one that reminds me of my own years and just how vulnerable I am to this kind of sadness. Those are those elders, just one generation before me, and who know they are on the way out. That’s sad, personal, experienced by all people in all places of my age group, and it is marking some kind of milestone for me, again, personally.
wow
WHAT a mammoth loss. There will NEVER be another Sidney Pollack, and that is just simply a huge loss to humanity. I’m sorry he’s gone and I am astute enough to KNOW what a privilege it is to have been born in the time on this rock as he!

*spiral gestures moving outward, with my fist, from my heart area to this world, in offer of the willingness I feel to be open to sharing the grief over this with those out there who also GET IT what a huge loss this is*

Heart and soul sent out to the family of this giant of our culture, today!

not quite what i had in mind ;)

maybe ;)

Anyone else find themselves shedding people who think McCain is their guy?

Nope. I love my family of origin too much.

In any event – although I’d vote for either Dem in a heartbeat over the R’s – our US political parties are not very far apart, when viewed agaist the far broader spectrum of mainstream political parties in Western Europe.

Our home-grown oligarchs use surface “labels” and identies (like race and party) as props to keep us from noticing the men behind the curtain: the oligarchs and the megacorps who own both parties.

Playing into “freezing out” those whom the megacorps’ MSM assigned labels that differ from our own merely strenghthens thos who seek to profit from mass posioning, endless war, destroying our institutions, and seizing our commons.

I won’t play their game.

expand…

:)

sure, what’s the diff between domestic and international terroists anyways.

lol, never mind me, i think spring fever hit.

But to quote SNL’s Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers: Really? You’d rather vote for John McCain, a man who has a 25-year history of voting against a woman’s right to choose? A man who over the last eight years that NARAL has released a pro-choice scorecard has received a 0 percent rating (in his time in office, Obama has received a 100 percent rating)? A man whose campaign website says he believes Roe v. Wade “must be overturned”? A man who has vowed that, as president, he will be “a loyal and unswerving friend of the right to life movement”?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..03580.html

Did John wait for his first mariage to end before he had sex again, or did he play Russian Rollete with all his Sacred Sperm, Any Monty Python fans!

A little less than half of all marriages end in divorce these days is John seriously going to tell every divorced woman they have to be celibate like he was (Bwahahaha!) until they get married again?
We need to focus on the issues and on McCain!

This

*clink*

i’m reading it.. wow, she went after everyone who fucked with her in hollylwood… making mental note to never piss her off

I’m surprised Jane is doing the late night shift!

Are Off Topics still allowed? I was particularly struck by the hypocrisy of the Fox Talking Head and Liz Trotta in going after Clinton. After citing folks like the Daily News that said “Clinton doesn’t deserve to run for dog catcher” the commentator failed to do more than laugh at a much more direct call for assassination by his “guest”, Liz Trotta when she said she said “confused” Obama and Osama bin Laden being assasinated. “Both would be assassinated, if we COULD”.

Then Trotta, after her klaughing at the potential killing of Obama, and her immoral equation of a Presidential candidate with the terrorist mastermind behind 3000 peoples deaths…then attacks Clinton.

She agrees with one editorialist who wrote “We have seen an X-Ray of a very dark soul.” Indeed we have, Liz!

Trotta says that the American people were “told by the media that Hillary was the smartest person in the world” and that now we know the truth. Hmmm! Trotta says even worse..and she considers herself worthy of airtime?

“But it’s beside the point, whether she (Hillary) meant it or not. She’s tone deaf…because it’s a radioactive word.” A word you just used to suggest that you wo0uld support assassinating Obama…”If We COULD! Bwahahahaha!”

“Surely THIS woman had to know that this was the 3rd Rail…to say “assassination” and it’s hard to argue for he in this!” PRECISELY, LIZ!

I’ve heard that there might be a job opening for DOG Gila Monster catcher in the dominions of Hades!

Well it depends how you define the Western World or the developed or 1st world but yeah we are number one or very close in having the highest Infant Mortality Rates!
A fact ever Insurance Company President must answer for to St Peter!

off course off topic is okay.. its what the late late nite header is to reflect :)

Me too.

Are Off Topics still allowed? I hope so

lol :)

g’nite katymine – sleep well!

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LOL! @ “Trotta says even worse..and she considers herself worthy of airtime”

I remember, as 6-year old kid, seeing Cat Ballou at a drive-in in upstate New York. So my memory is very impressionistic. But there was a young Jane Fonda…

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tw3k, your 56 passed over my head…

i was totally fascinated with the silver nose.

Nope. I love my family of origin too much.

In any event – although I’d vote for either Dem in a heartbeat over the R’s – our US political parties are not very far apart, when viewed agaist the far broader spectrum of mainstream political parties in Western Europe.

Our home-grown oligarchs use surface “labels” and identies (like race and party) as props to keep us from noticing the men behind the curtain: the oligarchs and the megacorps who own both parties.

Playing into “freezing out” those whom the megacorps’ MSM assigned labels that differ from our own merely strenghthens thos who seek to profit from mass posioning, endless war, destroying our institutions, and seizing our commons.

I won’t play their game.

My simplicstic reply to “I won’t play their game” was will you vote for “dometic terroism” a.k.a democrat or “international terrorism” a.k.a republican.

When is the Secret Service going to her house to ask her questions I’m sure that if Al Sharpton said that about Bush… well they would have yanked him off the air!
Or are Vegans the only threat to America? Do we really need FISA laws to spy on Americans if people who threaten Democratic Presidential candidates can laugh and get away with it!
I want that Lady FISAed, I want the IRS going after her tax records, I want INS going after her maid, cook and nanny no way a Fox News lady cooks and cleans her own house or raises her own kids.
I want the GOP to understand what losing their freedom is like.

No topic? Cool!
Tycho’s nose…

A subsequent duel (in the dark) resulted in Tycho losing the bridge of his nose. A consequence of this was that Tycho developed an interest in medicine and alchemy. For the rest of his life, he was said to have worn a replacement made of silver and gold blended into a flesh tone, and used an adhesive balm to keep it attached. However, in 1901 Tycho’s tomb was opened and his remains were examined by medical experts. The nasal opening of the skull was rimmed with green, a sign of exposure to copper, not silver or gold. Some historians have speculated that he wore a number of different prosthetics for different occasions, noting that a copper nose would have been more comfortable and less heavy than a precious metal one.

LOL! I knew I shouldn’t have spent so many hours snorting bronze!

Must rent Cat Ballou, as the Silver Nose has faded in memory.

oh great. is this coming out like fuckin’ clockwork or what: NYT headline Tue morning: Nuclear Agency Accuses Iran of Willful Lack of Cooperation.

Drumbeat gets louder.

…and must get sleep. G’nite, all.

g’nite

Well, if Iran doesn’t have plans for the bomb, they sure are being dumb-fucks about it.

g’nite mutant

As far as I am concerned the Democratic leadership would be as responsible as bush because they should have impeached that sorry son of a bitch the minute they got the majority. I hold them partly responsible for EVERYTHING that has gone down since then.

Good evening all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WANGDANGDOODLE!

Cake for all, but the birthday girl gets the first slice.

ohmystars!!!

hippo birdie wangdang

Any word on John McCain recruiting summoning trolls from the dark regions of Heck?
This has so much potential for blow back the Talking Points McCain is supplying the trolls were not working before.
I know I have complained several times here at the Lake about how all the GOP talking heads all repeat the same dang GOP talking points on every channel.
The GOP message didn’t sell to the Main Stream Media audience just look at Bush’s poll numbers.
Now McCain thinks that the more sophisticated political blogger universe
is going to appreciate crazed zombie McCainnites filling up our blogs with GOP talking points?
Pissing off the Netroots even more than we already are before an election is only going to make us want to vote against McCain more.

Happy B day Wangdangdoodle

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WANGDANGDOODLE!

oh shit birthday hawk!!!

Happy bday WangDang!!!111

that’s a forking gorgeous cake tex

I have a very small, but personal memory of Mr. Pollack. One of my first film experiences. My little part ended up on the cutting room floor, but I remember how very nice and generous he was to everyone on the set. I am grateful for that little moment. I am grateful for his work that brought me to a deeper realization of the human experience. I am deeply sorry that he is gone. Thank you Mr. Pollack….may your family and friends find peace and comfort during this very sad time.

Thanks!

Now I understand the joke :)

I think I’ll give a straight answer: neither.

I’m quite certain I’m among the eight million “enemies of the state” on the Main Core list – and certain many people I’ve loved and worked with and laughed and cried with are.

The T word: terrorism – like the B word: brown people – and the A-word: alien – and the other A-word: anarchist – and the D-word: druggie – and the C-word: communist…..

Their evil word of the decade game has been the tool the oligarchs have used for sixty years to keep us so frightened we’ll give up our collective trust in one another and the power we truly have together.

The almost-wholly owned Dems are every bit as complicit as the almost wholly owned Reps in palyig the “evil word” game: JFK’s false missile gap is only one of many sorry examples.

So when I’m offered the false dichotomy, I’ll keep saying “no thanks” and do what I can to help with media literacy and building local community – all the better to fight the oligarchs and megacorps’ Power.

The pathetic R and D’s who comprise most of our Federal leaders are – with rare exceptions – at worst complicit and at best simply ignorant of the great con that has passed for most of our politcal culture in the latter half of our century of Empire.

If I were to ask most of them if the understood Vidal’s critique of the National Security State (or Chalmers’ Johnson’s) – much less the central role of our occupation of the Phillipines a century ago or the 1948 National Security Act, I may as well be asking my cats to go out and buy more litter.

The task is beyond their current capacities.

So while I work here at the Lake and elsewhere to increase awareness – and I wnat to see Dems take control of the Federal govt – Reid and Pelosi’s recurrent surrenders tell me that won’t bethe endof the fight.

That’s why I’m so suspicious of the current “fear word” and both parties. They are puppets – albeit strong puppets who inflict terrible harm.

My basic fight is with the puppeteers.

If I’m gonna be on their fucking enemies of the state list, I’m gonna do every thing I can (legally and non-violently) to earn that place.

I hope I’ll have lots of competition in that effort.

Now who’d care for vegan lasagna?

Now suppose that you are a true believer in John McCain and his message and you actually read the comments we here at the Lake will leave in response
to any GOP talking point.
After a few attempts to convince us the true believer will either quit to save his sanity or start to get off on being a troll.
I assume McCain is hopping that this will provoke us Lefties to harsh words which McCain will try to use to discredit us.
I think that it is time that we start emptying out the crazy comment trash bin and start pointing out to the MSM just how crazy the right is.
Why are we held to a much higher standard by the Main Stream Media than Rush Limbaugh, Ann Colter and Michelle Malkin?

does that lasagna have real cheese?

Happy B-day wangdangdoodle!

Little sprinkle of parmesano, please doctor.

that would be the vegetarian lasagna.

We use rBST-free milk to keep the nmber of pus cells per cubic centimeter of cheese as low as possible…

Hmm. Perhaps there is such a thing as too much time spent at vegan potlucks. ;)

Thanks Suzanne. eBaked it myself!

i’m going back to the birthday cake

Wangdang told me that birthday girls always give away the frosting flowers to the other people at the party.
;->

…keep the nmber of pus cells per cubic centimeter of cheese as low as possible…

OK, fuckin’ yuck

me too….

i need a rumor confirmed pups

is edit really back?

Starting with guests whose names begin with “M”?

not here

I’m hoping Nancy ties a little blue bow on my impeachment present.

That’s all I want.

How did you know!

thanks – i thought my leg was being pulled… and thought maybe it was just me who did not see it

newton, if you have a free moment, can you log onto IM please.

” The Scientific Method is nothing but the normal working of the human mind. That is to say, when the mind is working: that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. “
Thomas Henry Huxley

My bold
As opposed to the President can’t admit to making mistakes because then people would lose faith in the idiot God King.

k.. OT, but I feel sick. These two were the banner headline a moment ago on the MSNBC site: “Food banks face rising costs, need.” and “Aid cuts leave children hungry.” And on CNN: “Deployed husband ‘one less mouth to feed.’” So now we’re the hunger nation. At least more so than before… Ugh.. I just want to scream or go hide in shame somewhere.

No? why are we getting it back:)

its on the wish list along with the new post announcement

i have published one of those (food banks) and have children no breakfast due to aid cuts in the que

trying now betsy

I’m back.

Did I miss anything?

Dear shrub: feed your people.

But, but we have a war to fund damit…..

I wish bushco would spontaneously combust already.

Suz — returning to last night; what is my ‘cache,’ where will I find it, and how do I clear it? (all of my ignorance, right out here in the open)

Many years after I’d discovered the director Sydney Pollack through They Shoot Horses, Don’t They, I stumbled up on a cable rerun of a gem of a Philip Roth adaptation, courtesy of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (naturally), which I think was my first real exposure to the actor Sydney Pollack.

Now I look through his credits and see such a wide variety of stories done well, including one that I actually own a copy of —Condor (naturally)— but keep forgetting that Pollack directed. It’s one of my favorite thrillers and also NY/70s movies, with familiar shots of areas I knew well at that time, like the west 70s (I’ve shopped at that original Fairway, browsed racks in that little dress shop!), but even more new and unusual vistas.

Yes, his pictures and acting roles are often quite dark, but what I think they share is that the characters never thought things would turn in that direction for them, even Victor with his wandering cue ball and unstoppable mouth. Perhaps that makes Pollack’s work that much more worthy of note.

what kinda browswer you running?

Pfft-fft. spew alert!

I gotta change the saran warp onmy monitor again. brb. good one:)

are you mac or pc?

internet explore or firefox or safari?

IE

Dear shrub: feed your people.

That’s the thing, his people are already quite well fed thank you. It’s the rest of us who are going hungry.

PC

ok, since you are pc running ie (i prefer firefox) then you can go to tools (upper right of ie7) and click on delete browsing history (aka cache)

yeap… he has a full belly and that’s all that matters

Blub, hi, I’ve wondered where you have been.
Horrible headlines.

Slightly weird musing: It dawns on me that I saw They Shoot Horses when it was current in an afternoon jaunt with a friend whose birthday was Monday.

Maybe chance is just rich enough that we think things fit together.

Natalie and James Dean Rebel without a cause. She brought a functioning human heart yo our culure. She dominated this scene as directed to and the Sundance man was a good straight man in thes scene magnifying her character. N
Nice of you to honor the man that communicated so much with his art… Days of the Condor was a harbinger of what Buchco has expanded on. 30 years ago we were warned and it was ongoing then as now.
There was a group of actors, writers, directors and producers that gave us life support…a sanity for me. Very warm thought provoking post Jane. Thank you and all of them for the creativity and the chance to interact.

Hi Bigbrother, hugs.

i also saw it in an afternoon matinee when it was a fairly new film. so strange to come out of a dark theater after watching such a dark film and emerge into the blazing california sun

i think american idol is just the 21st century version of those dances

Doesn’t even sound like he’s doing a very good job feeding his own soldiers’ families. Maybe we need some good old fashioned food protests. That’ll play well around the world and cement the jester-in-chief’s legacy. Its a shame we’re not getting the 2012 Olympics.. maybe somebody would’ve boycotted it.

Thanks.. too busy at work and volunteerism to play I’m afraid :(

i thought those stories about families needing food stamps while breadwinner is deployed would shame this administration into caring about the troops and the families.

i thought the story about the barracks in north carolina would shame this administration but they cleaned up that one barrack and turned it into a photo op.

they have no shame.

happy b’day WangDang! Let’s all sing Happy Birthday!

I guess not…

i missed ya neuro….

Hey what a great present sounds lovely. I wish it a lot. But the bad guys will always be with us to deal with maybe not so brazen.

would be even lovlier if it was wrapping an orange one piece outfit for each member of the administration

thanks :)

I missed the late late nite crew, as well

hope somebody got some diggs in …

good nite

we dugg a lot, neuro – sleep well

goodnight, neuro – good to see (have seen?) you

nite neuro

Thanks Margot

baby girl is on her way here… she is driving solo from st george to here – such a brave girl she has turned out to be

excellent!

(((suz)))

(((baby girl)))

she’s currently sitting in a denny’s in the town of Tehachapi, CA, east of Bakersfield and west of Mohave, CA.

just looked it up… 30 million unduplicated people are estimated to use the A2H (national foodbank system). A third of those are chronically hungry. 2/3rds are ‘merely’ “food insecure.”

food insecure is a term that pisses me off. sounds so bloody neutral

We are really running short at our food pantries locally, and were even before the gas crunch.

its not local. all food banks everywhere in the states are facing shortages at a time when need is rising. most of that need is families.

Good night all.

Yes it does, doesn’t it?
Do you describe a very ill patient as “life insecure”?

nite betsy

Hi Jane,

Yes, I know you’re not here any more. Sydney Pollack was one of the greats, though. I think Michael Clayton could be numbered among his dark films. It was terrific, anyway. It had unforgettable characters and a tight plot. You might say it was a film that belonged in a different era, but the observations it made about our own times were spot on.

I suppose I can’t say I’ll miss the guy when I can rent all his movies, but it’s a damn shame he’ll never make another.

pain free sleep wishes tex (and that was a cake that was almost too pretty to eat)

Goodnight TexBetsy.

hey cujo

Like not knowing where your next meal is coming from can be remedied by education, or access to the Internet?

Evening pups.

Per NPR Henry Kissinger turns 85 today (tomorrow for left coasters).
Wonder if TexB has a suitable cake for him…

Hi Suzanne. So did I read that your daughter is driving your way tonight?

yes she is. she left st george this afternoon and is about halfway here now. tis her first solo long distance drive and she is doing great.

hey sunny, i bet she has one that is all drapped in black bunting or similarly suitable for that monster

I was thinking in terms of a really nasty pop-out critter.

I think this one is ready now.

Make that this one.

that is too cute for kissenger

We don’t have to send the kid.

G’nite pups – sleep well.

Hope you allget a good night’s sleep and rise up to seize the day

How bout this?

http://www.strangecosmos.com/c…..30274.html

nite kirk

g’nite kirk

HAHAHAHAHAHA (woke up token)

that is poifect!

Goodnight, Kirk.

It’s probably not cruel enough, but this is short notice.

yeah! she’s in bakersfiled!

ok, make that bakersfield.. mom got a little excited there

First solo car trip really is a big deal. Where is St George?

southwest corner of utah.. she’s about 90 minutes east of vegas

this is her first solo trip that is further away than vegas for her.

Good for her.
Time for the land of nod. ‘nite all.

g’nite sunny

attaturk’s upstairs

I love Three Days of the Condor. It’s probably my favorite Pollack film.

There were many of his films that I enjoyed. I particularly liked:

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They
Absence of Malice
The Way we Were
The Swimmer
The Firm

In addition to being a great Director his credits for producing are impressive as well.

Producer
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) executive producer
Presumed Innocent (1990) producer
Sense and Sensibility (1995) executive producer
Sliding Doors (1998) producer
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) executive producer
Iris (2001) executive producer
The Quiet American (2002) executive producer
Cold Mountain (2003) producer
Breaking and Entering (2006) producer
Michael Clayton (2007) producer
Recount (2008) executive producer

Director
The Slender Thread (1965) director
This Property Is Condemned (1966) director
The Scalphunters’ (1968) director
The Swimmer (1968) co-director
Castle Keep (1969) director
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) director
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) director
The Way We Were (1973) director
Three Days of the Condor (1975) director
The Yakuza (1975) director/producer
Bobby Deerfield (1977) director/producer
The Electric Horseman (1979) director/actor
Absence of Malice (1981) director/producer
Tootsie (1982) director/producer/actor
Out of Africa (1985) director/producer
Havana (1990) director/co-producer
The Firm (1993) director/producer
Sabrina (1995) director/producer
Random Hearts (1999) director
Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005) director
The Interpreter (2005) director, executive producer, and actor

Thanks Sydney for all of the many hours of pleasure you’ve given us. We will miss you.

Thanks Jane.