Sydney Pollack Quits Election Movie

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HOLLYWOOD - Filmmaker Sydney Pollack has pulled out of a film based on the 2000 presidential election after being struck down with a mystery illness.

The Oscar-winning director was due to produce a film depicting the harrowing weeks after the November election that sealed George W. Bush's victory over Al Gore in Florida for HBO.

But a spokesman for Pollack says he has withdrawn from the project for health reasons.

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