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.