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...Candidate, Actor Robert Redford starred as an idealistic aspirant to the U.S. Senate. In real life, his political achievements can be measured on a more modest scale. Redford, a resident of Provo Canyon, Utah (pop. 124), since 1963 and one of the owners of the nearby Sundance ski resort, last week was appointed chairman of the Provo Canyon Sewer District Committee. His duties: to help local residents win state aid for a more extensive sewage system. "I'm honored," said the actor, "but I'm having a hard time picking a cabinet...
Says he: "They treat me as if I were Robert Redford...
...woman sinks into her lascivious routine, where she says, "My body feels like it is only my sex organs. And I become the feeling and sound and rhythm of sex everywhere." But sleeping with countless men--from one of her husband's oldest friends to a baby-faced Robert Redford look-alike just out of Yale--rehabilitates her, perhaps by restoring her self-confidence and simultaneously forcing her to hate the self that wins assurance as a sex object. Suddenly she begins to find rules within herself. The increasingly determined woman writes more extensively of personalities, friendships with women...
...second place, when I did figure out what was going on, I thought that the C.I.A. was entirely right. Three Days seems to be saying that the C.I.A. is like a big anonymous corporation in which pawns get knocked off in the senseless palace intrigues of the bigshots. Redford's one major policy statement at the end of the film is designed to make us cheer the idea of the small man fighting the bureaucracy, only instead of the harried housewife trying to get the phone company to correct a billing error, this is blood 'n' guts stuff. It doesn...
...Mechanic became a mechanism, like a gun, which shoots for anyone who points it. And the moviemakers were pointing him indiscriminately, punching out everyone in sight, preferably for no apparent reason. And he was the most popular star in the world, numero uno international, bigger than Eastwood, even making Redford small fry...all this, without acting one single solitary lick...