Word: redford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was nothing of Tweedledum, Tweedledee in the choice available to Pennsylvania voters last week for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate. Indeed, reported TIME Correspondent Don Sider, it was more like Robert Redford v. James Cagney. Facing each other from opposite ends of the state were Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, a lanky, blue-eyed charmer with an engaging grin and earnest air, and former state Insurance Commissioner Herbert S. Denenberg, a cocky, abrasive professor whose "Shopper's Guides" to buying insurance, legal-aid and medical services have made him a consumers' hero. In the end, Redford...
...silent observation, Daisy and Gatsby even get to act out some of Jordan Baker's. Further, the movie hardhits you with scenery, the shining shots like shiner punches at Fitzgerald. And it fumbles facial close-ups--as if a picture of a face, especially a face as blank as Redford's, could tell of the mind...
...front of the stage, shouting, "Read books, read books!" · The Watergate sleuths of the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein, 30, and Bob Woodward, 30, received a $55,000 advance from Simon & Schuster in early 1973 for their account of the scandal. After the sale of movie rights to Robert Redford for $450,000 and Playboy's $25,000 check for two excerpts, the pair expected to gross around $500,000 each from the finished book, All the President's Men, to be published this June. Then came a pleasant surprise: Warner Paperback library offered $1 million...
...Bernstein and Woodward, the rewards have been substantial. Before they began reporting on Watergate, the two earned together less than $30,000 a year. Now, from raises and book advances, magazine, paperback and movie rights (Robert Redford wants to play Woodward), each reporter stands to earn more than $500,000 before taxes from the book, a sum that could surpass President Nixon's net worth?after he pays all his back taxes...
...anticipation of seeing Robert Redford as Gatsby, his dream of being reunited with Daisy about to be realized, has my emotions gripped sufficiently to make me want to rush to see the film. The spin-offs have nothing to do with my reason for wanting to go. I just want to see Redford play that scene and enjoy it as I feel my heart go pitter...