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Ode to Sidney Pollack: Travel where his movies were made
Sidney Pollack died of cancer yesterday. When I heard the news, along with feeling sad about his death, I flashed to a certain restaurant in Hurley, New York that's one of my favorite "when I go back home for a visit " eateries,although it's changed hands since Pollack used it as one of the settings for Tootsie.
The Hurley Mountain Inn where Dustin Hoffman bellied up to the bar with Charles Durning has been serving up family fare for years. My mom always headed here with friends for the spaghetti and meatballs. The last time I was there, my son was happy playing video games without the money to actually have them do anything.
Hurley is near Kingston in the Hudson Valley and the restaurant is worth the drive. Nothing fancy, but you'll feel like you're in a place that means something to the people who eat there. Along with Hurley, if you do a Sidney Pollack film tour of the world, you'll see a lot. Consider these alone and you'll be busy:
- Sketches of Frank Gehry--Pollack followed Frank Gehry around with a camera and captured the architectural genius found in the Vitra Museum in Germany, Maggie's Centre, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, and the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
- Out of Africa--The Africa scenes were filmed in the Ngong Hills in Kenya. The Denmark scenes were in Surrey, England.
- The Electric Horseman--For the gorgeous scenery seen in the film, head to Zion National Park and other places in Utah. For the rest, head to Las Vegas.
- The Way We Were--Bask in a bit of opulence at Ballston Spa, New York and in front of The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
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