Word: redford
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...resent your passing off my favorite movie star, Robert Redford, as white bread without the minerals. If he's white bread, I'll take six loaves...
...fact. Brando broods and thickens in the middle on his South Seas Elba, a character actor in search of characters he can knock off in a month's shooting time. Newman is good wine, aging nicely but often bottled strangely, so that it is hard to identify his essence. Redford is adorable, but when they enriched that handsome hunk of white bread, they somehow left out the mythic minerals. Nicholson is a wise guy, a kind of Bogart manqué, who has not yet touched the darker depths that the screen's first, and greatest, existential hero suggested he knew. Hoffman...
...today's climate it may actually take more courage and more imagination to become an Eastwood or a Reynolds than it does to be a Nicholson or a Redford. Eastwood-Reynolds films are usually dismissed by critics, rarely play the chic little theaters where the cinéastes gather to read subtitles and subtleties, or get nominated for prizes. If anyone talks about Burt and Clint at all in the better intellectual circles, it is to denounce their macho manners and express fear that their habitual resort to violence poses a continuing threat to the morals of the children and, very...
...rights to choke a hungry goat. I ask for public rights, Mr. Carter. I ask for victory over perverts of this country. I want a right to segregate my family from these misfits and perverts." A film was shown of Anita Bryant endorsing the pro-family movement, and Roger Redford of Arkansas explained that he had been a homosexual for 26 years until he was finally saved. "The Lord Jesus Christ is the only one who can deliver you from homosexuality...
...light up a small town-Cleveland or Chicago, say. "He has an energy that just flies off the screen," says Neil Simon, who wrote The Goodbye Girl. "He doesn't fall into any of the usual acting categories. He's not a handsome-man type like Redford or a dramatic-actor type like Pacino or De Niro. Rick can do anything-and he is funnier than any of them." Not a victim of false modesty, Dreyfuss agrees. How does he think he is in Goodbye Girl? Just ask him: "I think I'm wonderful...