1. – Sydney Pollack, The Player, 1992. When one director could not, as planned, do fellow director Robert Altman a favour, another obliged. Pollack, shanghaied back into acting in Tootsie by Dustin Hoffman, continued with bits for A to Z – Woody Allen to Robert Zemeckis – before subbing Harvey Keitel in the Kubrick finale, Eyes Wide Shut.
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