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Show C-3 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 30 - Aug. 1, 2008 (Experience the Homestead! Sundance pays tribute to Sydney Pollack "Late (Rjser (Brunch" (Package $152* Garden-style Accommodations Sunday Brunch in Simon's Restaurant (Brunch reservations after 12:30pm only) "Swinging Sunday Qotf (Package I $130* Garden-style Accommodations 18-HoIcs of golf at Homestead Golf Course (Tee titties after 1:00 pm on Sunday only) 'Rates based on double occupancy excluding utx. Validfor Sunday night stays through August 24, 2008 1 700 N. Homestead Dr. Midway, UT 84049 866-628-0419 • www.HomcsteadResort.com PHOTO COURTESY OF SUNDANCE Sydney Pollack at an early Sundance creative lab. Pollack joined the director's lab as an advisor in 1981. He died In May. Deceased director to be honored at CHy Park screening By GREG MARSHALL Of the Record staff Michelle Satter is the founding director of the feature film program of the Sundance Institute. She was also one of the first people on Earth to see the film "Tootsie," Sydney Pollack's now classic story of gender bending in which a struggling actor transforms himself into a middleaged female soap opera star. Satter saw a rough cut of the movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange in a studio in Burbank in 1981. It was the first lime Pollack, who directed and co-stars in the film, had shown it to an audience. He spent the entire screening pacing outside the theater. "He wasn't sure how it would play," Satter remembered. The film went on to earn 10 Academy Awards nominations in 1982, including a nod for Pollack's direction, and, years later, landed on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Academy-Award winning pro- movies. Satter said, because he greatest movies of all time. "Sydney loved actors," Satter ducer, director and actor signed believed actors learned, and sighed. "He was passionate and on to teach at the Sundance improved, with practice. "I embraced the process. He Director's Lab in its charter year, remember he said acting is believed that filmmakers learned 1981, near the time he shot doing," Satter said. "It's an active by doing. It was about the "Tootsie" and quickly emerged verb." as a key advisor foT shaping the Pollack got his start on the process, not just the results." The Sundance Institute is hon- filmmaking initiatives that con- stage and-only later transitioned oring Pollack's to directing. His versatility as panache with a a performer contributed to slide-show before his legacy at Sundance, Sailer He was passionate and embraced said. the screening of "The film ["Tootsie"] "Tootsie," which the process. He believed filmmakers had real depth. The characplays in City Park ters were fully realized." Friday as part of the learned by doing. Pollack plays a talent Sundance Outdoor agent opposite Dustin Film Festival. - Michelle Satter of Sundance Hoffman's busty, southern Pollack died in May on the late Sydney Pollack starlet.Irene Cho, another repat the age of 73. During his life- ^^^^mmmm ™ resentative of the Sundance time. Pollack directInstitute, said she will read a ed more than 21 films and JO tel- tinue today. tribute to Pollack before the 9 evision shows. He is best known "He and Robert Redford and p.m. start of "Tootsie" in Park for his work on "Tootsie," "Out Frank Daniel set up a methodol- City. The series, called Six of Africa" and "Absence of ogy," said Scatter, who was also Degrees of Sundance, shows how Malice." In more recent years one of the pioneers of the classic films conned lo Ihe Pollack produced "The Talented Sundance Institute who worked Sundance Film Festival. Mr. Ripley" (1999), "The Quiet closely with Pollack. "His According to Cho. The series American" (2002) and "Cold involvement in the planning has attracted a record-number of Mountain" (2003). process in the first five years of viewers at its three screening Pollack's last project as a the labs was important. He was locations at the Sundance director was 2005's "The really good at bringing what he Resort, the Gallivan Center in Interpreter," starring Sean Penn learned to enhance the tools and Salt Lake City and Park City. skills of emerging filmmakers." and Nicole Kidman. "Tootsie" starts at 9 p.m. in Perhaps lesser known is Students admired Pollack's City Park. The event is free and Pollack's Hair for teaching. The active approach to making open to the public. mountain, luxury, At Timberlodge Collection, we understand thatyour home is an outward expression ofy our personality. 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