Word: pollacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name is Irving M. Pollack, but to his staff he is "Irv." He often answers his own phone. His clothes appear to come from off the rack at Macy's. Peering into a legal brief through smudged spectacles, he looks like a bookkeeper on his way to nowhere. But he has long been the Securities and Exchange Commission's top cop as head of its tough Division of Enforcement and previously chief of its Division of Trading and Markets. Last week President Nixon promoted Lawyer Pollack (magna cum laude, Brooklyn Law School) to become...
Directed by SIDNEY POLLACK...
Some staffers grumble privately that he was less than vigorous in pressing the whole Vesco investigation, which, they claim, reached the courts because of the efforts of two career investigators, Stanley Sporkin and Irving Pollack. There is even speculation in the agency that Cook may have used his inside knowledge of the Vesco contribution to pressure the Administration into naming him, a relatively unknown Midwestern Republican lawyer, as SEC chairman...
...Pollack's films have been (in his words) "period pieces," including the film which he has just finished shooting, The Way We Were. Starring Redford once again, with Barbara Streisand, it is "a political love story, about two very intelligent people who don't end up together because of ideological differences." The film focuses on three different periods in the recent past; the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the '44 election and for the first time in any film, the period of the Hollywood Black Lists...
...Pollack feels this kind of chronological and topical distance has given him additional freedom to work. "It's a little bit like finding a guy who doesn't say a word at party, who's just too painfully shy, then once when you get him on stage where he's got a character to hide behind all sorts of things start to happen..." The Way We Were may bear this out; in any case, it will be a significant film only it Pollack returns to the film-making which characterized They Shoot Horses, a kind of filmmaking whose depth...