LOS ANGELES — Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay as director, producer and sometime actor whose star-laden movies like “The Way We Were,” “Tootsie” and “Out of Africa” were among the most successful of the 1970s and ’80s, died on Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 73.

The cause was cancer, said a representative of the family.

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That's a damn shame. R.I.P.

RIP Syd. Except for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" I never liked his stuff. Met him at college.

he was great in Michael Clayton

Damn, that sucks. RIP