Word: redford
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...York City, with dark hair, heavy eyeliner and complicated feelings for Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix. On Nov. 3 she'll add some much needed levity and sex appeal to a Depression-era golf fable, The Legend of Bagger Vance, with Matt Damon and Will Smith, directed by Robert Redford. The following week she'll show up in a smaller role opposite Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 1950s military drama Men of Honor...
...whether calling a respected member of the media corps a "major-league asshole" is going to hurt Governor Bush at the polls. After all, we should be grown-up enough to know that when Middle America today imagines a journalist, they're not picturing Clark Kent, or even Robert Redford playing Bob Woodward. The scandal- and infotainment-driven media culture of the '90s has certainly diminished the standing of journalists in the eyes of the wider American community, and chances are that Bush's gaffe might actually improve his image. But coming as the election season enters home stretch...
...work to do. My first idea, "Utah: the no-drinkin', no-gamblin', no-whinin' state" didn't go over well. And "Utah: our Olympic officials are as corrupt as anyone's" was summarily dismissed. But "Utah: home of that snotty Sundance Film Festival" pleased the Senator greatly. "Robert Redford is a liberal Democrat. What do you expect?" he said. And after we tried to come up with a line about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Senator, afraid of seeming vulgar, wisely said, "I think we had better be careful about the choir." Someone was still feeling burned from bringing...
...ORDINARY PEOPLE The theme of Robert Redford's directorial debut is that boating rips families apart. After Conrad (Timothy Hutton) fails to save his big brother in a storm on Lake Michigan, he attempts suicide. After he returns home from the mental institution, his coldly chipper mom (Mary Tyler Moore) is speaking for herself when she complains, "I don't think people want to be with him." Conrad blames himself for his brother's death, even though the real murderers are the droves of psychopathic molecules composed of two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. He does quit the swim team...
...happy that he links up with Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), a train robber with the anachronistic manners of a surfer dude--a little too politely countercultural for his line of work and not half as clever as he thinks he is. He looks like a young Robert Redford (the movie makes a nice satirical reference to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), but his genial self-regard--assailed by amusing self-doubt when he actually gets into a classic gunfight--is all his own. He's a terrific sidekick to Chan's funny, earnest, often victimized righteousness. This...