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Played a Supporting Role  Best known for "Tootsie" and "Out of
Africa," the Academy Award winner dies of cancer. He was 73.
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Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 28, 2008  Sydney
Pollack made them old-fashioned -- big and bighearted. Matinee
idols kissed in exotic locales. The music washed over us like an
aural Danube. He lifted us out of our lives and into worlds we
would never go -- the hunting grounds of "Out of Africa," the
snowy mountains of "Jeremiah Johnson," the TV dressing rooms of
"Tootsie."  This Story  Sydney Pollack, who succumbed to cancer
Monday, made movies. And though it sounds like a cliche to say
it, they don't make them like he used to.  For more than 40
years, the director-producer, who would have turned 74 in July,
created films in what seemed like every conceivable genre --
thrillers, westerns, epics, actioners and comedies. But his
formula was pretty much t