Editing Sydney Pollack (section)

==Personal life and death==
Pollack was married to Claire Bradley Griswold, a former student of his, from 1958 until his death in 2008. They had three children: Steven (1959–1993), Rebecca (b. 1963), and Rachel (b. 1969).<ref name=Cieply>{{cite news| first=Michael|last=Cieply|author-link=Michael Cieply| title=Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/movies/27pollack.html |work=[[The New York Times]]| date=May 27, 2008| access-date=October 15, 2020| url-access=limited}}</ref> In November 1993, Steven died at the age of 34 in the crash of a small, single-engine plane which clipped a power line and burst into flames in [[Santa Monica, California]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-27-me-61396-story.html| title=Crash of Private Plane Kills 2 in Santa Monica: Accident: The son of filmmaker Sidney Pollack is one of the fatalities. A third man aboard is critically injured after the aircraft dived and hit an apartment building carport.| first=Scott Shibuya| last=Brown| date=November 27, 1993| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| access-date=October 25, 2019}}</ref><ref name=NYT-Obit-StevenPollack>{{cite news| title=Film Maker's Son and Pilot Die in Crash of Small Plane| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/28/us/film-maker-s-son-and-pilot-die-in-crash-of-small-plane.html| work=The New York Times| date=November 28, 1993| access-date=May 26, 2008| agency=[[Associated Press]]| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Claire Griswold died on March 28, 2011, at 74 years of age, from [[Parkinson's disease]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}}

Concerns about Pollack's health surfaced in 2007, when he withdrew from directing HBO's television film ''[[Recount (film)|Recount]]'', which aired on May 25, 2008.<ref name=ClarkM-USAT-Obit>{{cite news| first=Mike| last=Clark| url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-05-26-pollack-obit_N.htm| title=Remembering Sydney Pollack, an actor's director| newspaper=[[USA Today]]| date=May 26, 2008| access-date=October 15, 2020}}</ref> He died from cancer the following day at his home in the [[Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles|Pacific Palisades]] neighborhood of Los Angeles, at the age of 73.<ref name=Cieply/> He had been diagnosed about ten months prior to his death; the type of cancer has been variously cited as [[pancreatic cancer|pancreatic]],<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-28-et-pollackmovies28-story.html|title = Pollack's way with actors|last = King|first = Susan|date = May 28, 2008|accessdate = February 13, 2022|work = [[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> [[stomach cancer|stomach]],<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-harvey-weinstein-tormented-a-legendary-director-on-his-death-bed|title = When Harvey Weinstein Tormented a Legendary Director on His Deathbed|work = [[The Daily Beast]]|date = October 16, 2017|accessdate = February 13, 2022|last = Stern|first = Marlow}}</ref> or [[cancer of unknown primary origin|of unknown primary origin]].<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pollack/sydney-pollack-dies-in-los-angeles-idUSN2635601320080527|title = Sydney Pollack dies in Los Angeles|work = [[Reuters]]|date = May 26, 2008|accessdate = February 13, 2022|last = Gorman|first = Steve|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180609140424/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pollack/sydney-pollack-dies-in-los-angeles-idUSN2635601320080527/|archive-date = June 9, 2018}}</ref>