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...popcorn, rickety seats and sticky floors, first-class cinemas may sound like a bad joke. But with a surfeit of mammoth megaplexes filling cities and suburbs, theater owners seem willing to try anything to make their marquees stand apart from the crowd. General Cinema is teaming up with Robert Redford to launch a Sundance chain of art houses...
...summer lab gets the least attention, but it's the most important thing we do," says Redford over lunch in the Sundance mess tent, the music of rushing streams riding in on drifts of alpine air. Important because this level of creative nurturing doesn't exist anywhere else and because these future directors do not seem inclined--not yet, anyway--toward the variety of film that is promoted with either a Happy Meal or the billboard image of a star urinating on a wall...
...whole focus here is the story," says Redford, who grew up the son of a Los Angeles milkman in a neighborhood sandwiched by Beverly Hills and the barrio. Those clashing cultures, mixed with an interest in jazz and the Beat scene, infused in him a lifelong, insatiable desire for untold stories in alternative voices...
...should have been more constructive, he says. Maybe so. But Locke, who loses at least a foot to Lindo in height, doesn't back down. "I see beyond the polarity," she says of race relations, speaking with the same hopeful tone that powers her script. At dinner one night, Redford sees in her eyes that Locke is trapped in the halfway house between self-confidence and self-doubt. He strolls up and tells her not to worry. "This is all part of the experience," he says. "You've got a good story...
...Redford's mother-henning is one come-on, the setting another. The morning sound and smell of creek water under a wooden footbridge, the afternoon light on lush summer grass, the green-walled canyons climbing the evening sky--anyone who can't draw creative inspiration from this place should probably be shooting weddings and bar mitzvahs. "It's like you're in a bubble," Plimpton says. "Nothing else exists when you're here." Not Hollywood, not Top 10 lists, not even makeup...