Turner Classic Movies will honor the recent passing of director Sydney Pollack on June 2, by preempting its evening schedule to present four of his films.<\/p>\n
At 8pm, TCM will present Pollack’s first film, The Slender Thread<\/strong> (1965), with Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft. Following that will be two of Pollack’s seven collaborations with Robert Redford- Three Days Of The Condor<\/strong> (1975) at 10 pm and Jeremiah Johnson<\/strong> (1972) at 2 am. Nestled between the two at midnight is Pollack’s comedy Tootsie<\/strong> (1982), in which he also appeared as Dustin Hoffman’s agent.<\/p>\n Stuff like this is one of the reasons why I think movie fans should treasure Turner Classic Movies. Granted, they can’t preempt their programming to do retrospectives every time a Hollywood figure passes. But when they are able to, they make sure that they do it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"