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This scheme requires Finch Hatton, in whom Robert Redford has found a soul mate, to stand in for the spirit of Africa. Laconic, ironic, elusive and, in his silky way, brutal, he continually offers his lover spectacular glimpses of a great nature. Then, just when she thinks she has grasped him, he slips away into the clouds. Meryl Streep, as Dinesen, is his perfect match. Always at her best when challenged to leave her own time and place for regions more passionate and generous, Streep embodies an aristocrat's arrogance toward the unknown and an artist's vulnerability...
California's Yosemite National Park is not the usual place to track celebrities. But campers in the glacier-carved valley found themselves asking for autographs when Robert Redford showed up along with Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel for the formal dedication of Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,900-ft. peak named for the great wilderness photographer. Redford, 48, talked about his concern for protecting natural areas and the impression Yosemite made on him when he first saw it at age ten. "I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security," he declared. "Defense...
Stardom gets to people. Seeing themselves bigger than life onscreen, actors figure their characters' next step is toward deity. So Sly Stallone rewrites history and wins the Viet Nam War in retrospect. Robert Redford turns the gifted loser of Bernard Malamud's novel The Natural into a legend inscribed in fireworks. As for Clint Eastwood, cited in a recent Roper poll as the nation's No. 1 hero, impersonating mere humans is no longer a challenge. So in Pale Rider, Hollywood's first big-time, straight-faced western since Heaven's Gate, Eastwood plays God, or maybe Death. With...
...body is impeccable, but the voice is flat and high pitched. He has instructed writers to give him as few lines as possible, yet he rushes the elemental dialogue that remains. Words slur: "didn't" becomes "dint." If he is the first really bankable blond leading man since Robert Redford, he is also the most successful really terrible actor since Audie Murphy...
Past winners have included Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Sean Connery in 1984. The award was first presented in 1955, to Bob Hope, 11 years after the installation of the Woman of the Year honor...