Terrence Kiel a former safety for the San Diego Chargers was killed in a car accident late Friday night.

Kiel was reportedly driving his car on the wrong side of the road when it struck a wall.  He was ejected from the vehicle and pinned under the hood.  Kiel was barely breathing when medical personnel arrived and was pronounced dead an hour later at 11:28 pm.

Terrence had just left a party where his friends had pleaded with him not to drive home.  However, police will not know whether or not drugs or alcohol played a role in the accident until toxicology tests are performed.

Terrence Kiel was 27 years old.

Director, producer, and actor, Sydney Pollack died at his Los Angeles home on Monday after his 9 month long battle with cancer. He was 73. Spokeswoman Leslee Dart said Pollack was diagnosed with cancer about 10 months ago, but doctors were never able to determine the primary source of the disease.

He died only hours after the HBO premiere of “Recount” which he executive produced.

Pollack was credited with directing 20 films, including seven with Robert Redford. He has won a pair of Academy Awards for his epic romance, “Out of Africa,” and has earned praises for his brilliant acting in “Tootsie” and “Micheal Clayton.” In his later years, Pollack devoted most of his time to producing and acting. You can currently see him on TV re-runs of Will & Grace playing Eric McCormack’s father and also on the big screen as Patrick Dempsey’s serial dating father in “Made of Honor.”

For more of Pollack’s impressive work, check out LA Times.

The tall, curly-haired Indiana native, who got his start as an acting coach under the legendary drama teacher Sanford Meisner before becoming a prominent TV director, once described his acting stints as “an excuse to spy on other directors.”

“Directors are very territorial,” he told CNN.com in a 2005 interview. “They’re like lions, urinating on every corner of the stage.”

The Directors Guild of America issued a statement on Monday night saluting him as “the quintessential ‘actor’s director”‘ and a gifted filmmaker who “let the dialogue and the emotion of a scene speak for itself.”

George Clooney, who was in Michael Clayton with Pollack, said:

“Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a little better. A tip of the hat to a class act. He’ll be missed terribly.”

Tom Crusie, who has worked alongside Pollack many times, said, in a statement early Tuesday morning:

“I first met him while he was in the midst of editing Tootsie.  I’d seen every one of his pictures and he generously took the meeting…He spent over six hours, with the patience of Job, answering all my questions.”

“Throughout the years, unpretentious and never condescending, he shared with me what he loved about family, storytelling, food, flying and a great bottle of vino. He was a Renaissance man and a great friend. I will miss him dearly.”

R.I.P Sydney Pollack