Oh this is getting really depressing…. Actor/Director Sydney Pollack has passed away after battling cancer. Pollack, was last in the comedy “Made of Honor”, and directed the period piece, “Out of Africa”. I remember him mostly as Will’s dad on Will and Grace.
He also starred aside George Clooney in the acclaimed Michael Clayton last year….
Clooney issued this statement
“Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a little better. A tip of the hat to a class act,” actor George Clooney said in a statement issued by his publicist.
The inspiration for “mommy” in the cartoon Family Circus, has passed away. Thelma Keane, wife of cartoonist Bil Keane, passed away due to Alzheimer’s.
“She was the inspiration for all of my success,” Bil Keane, 85, told The Associated Press from his home in Paradise Valley on Sunday. “When the cartoon first appeared, she looked so much like Mommy that if she was in the supermarket pushing her cart around, people would come up to her and say, ‘Aren’t you the Mommy in ‘Family Circus?’ and she would admit it.”
Benicio Del Toro took the award for best actor in Cannes this weekend! YAY Fenster got an award!!! Benicio, who received the award on unanimous vote, won for his portrayal of Che Guevara in Stephen Doderbergh’s long long lonnnnnnnnnng movie that was split into 2, 2 hour movies.
“I’d like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara,” said Del Toro. He also thanked Soderbergh, “who got up every day, forced me to this. … He was there pushing it, and he pushed all of us.”
I’m just happy for Ben
cio. He’s one of those actors that I see in an ad, and I am more interested. And he’s been in A LOT of movies!
CONGRATS! And you clean up nice
Here’s B. receiving his award from Sean Penn at Cannes
