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...melodramatic, rife with the sort of cheap film-school tricks that momentarily make us worry our star might not make this pitch? Shucks, the absurdity is part of the fun. I’m no melting puddle, and I’m still a sucker for The Natural. Robert Redford smashes home runs that defy physics and logic, and he hits the last one—the one that shatters the floodlights—while poisoned, and shot and bleeding through his uniform...
Both Bossert and Heimert remember the fun of entertaining famous guests in the Masters’ Residence. Bossert fondly recalls serving tea to labor leader Cesar Chavez, pointing actor Robert Redford to the bathroom and watching his father (“in a tux and bare feet”) chat with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart over a bowl of Cajun crawdads. Heimert says that often famous figure skaters stayed in Eliot House during the Evening With Champions benefit show...
...Jess Cagle's story about Robert Redford [CINEMA, Nov. 19], he wrote that the actor is "64 and looks it, and he's O.K. with that." Redford may be O.K. with it, but I resent it. I am 64 and grew up working on a farm, but I don't even come close to the cragginess of Redford. Cagle should have said Redford is 64 but looks older. Only the truly young would assume that all 64-year-olds have road maps on their faces. Oh well, as craggy and weathered as he is, Robert Redford is still a hunk...
Cagle reported that Redford was intrigued by the role in Last Castle because "he hadn't played a military character before." Either Redford's memory is failing him or maybe he has been in too many movies. He played a U.S. Army major in the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far. GEORGE S. GLASSMEYER Irmo...
...last day in the CIA, agent Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) recounts the story of Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), whom he recruited and mentored. Bishop is about to be executed for a rogue raid on a Chinese prison, and Muir wants to rescue him. The excess of talk, some of it nicely smart-alecky, is relieved by much standard action-movie fieldwork: explosions, car chases, muttering. Though the film ranges the world and the decades in search of coherence and consequence, it finds none...