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...Pauley of American government." Like Pauley, Seidman has been very visible on TV lately, which he calls "getting your case before the public." Is there perhaps also a bit of the ham in him? Maybe not, but how many other short, bald, aged accountants have appeared in a Robert Redford movie? (One of Seidman's six children is a film director and got him a bit part as a barroom customer in Ordinary People...
...Rick figure this time is Jack Weil (Robert Redford), a professional poker player aware that people tend to throw caution (and money) to the winds when their way of life is about to be radically altered. The Ilsa stand-in is Bobby Duran (Lena Olin), who lures Jack into doing a little light smuggling for her and then for the longest time resists being lured into an affair with him. Her reasons are sound: she is grief-stricken when led to believe that her husband (Raul Julia) has been murdered by the Batista regime, and she is in shock after...
...this point that Havana starts to go awry. It is not Redford's fault. The years have weathered him handsomely, and he contrives to lose his famous cool with insinuating subtlety. The problem lies with Olin, who never loses enough of her cool, and with Pollack and the writers. Whatever else is going on in their lives, Jack and Bobby need to come to a world-well-lost moment, a rocking, rolling acknowledgment of suppressed desires. That does not happen. We get shadows and tenderness instead. Then the script sends her up- country to join the rebels and sends Jake...
...Robert Redford and Lena Olin in an old-fashioned Hollywood romance set against the Cuban Revolution. The question is whether Redford, who hasn't appeared in a film since 1986, can still pack them in. Studio execs are nervous...
...World Series, by the way). The epic struggle of the hitter and pitcher carries all the potency today as when Ty Cobb first stepped to the plate 90 years ago. And for the fans, Gary Cooper in Pride of the Yankees was just as cool as Robert Redford in The Natural...