IndieLondon | by Rob | Mon, May 26
Mon, May 26
OSCAR-winning film director and producer Sydney Pollack has died of cancer at the age of 73.
As producer, he also helped to finance the likes of George Clooney’s Leatherheads, as well as the BBC hit The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, which was to prove Minghella’s last work.
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