Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Past "Man of the Year" recipients include Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert DeNiro, Steven Speilberg, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks. The men's award was established...
...Horse Whisperer, a romantic yarn in which a Montana cowboy with a mystical gift for communicating with horses has a torrid affair with a British-born magazine editor from New York, caused a stir in publishing and Hollywood circles as soon as the manuscript began circulating last fall. Robert Redford and Disney ponied up $3 million for movie rights; Dell Publishing won North American book rights for $3.15 million; and foreign rights topped $2 million. And that was before Evans had even finished writing the book...
...finished, with mortgage payments overdue, he showed the book to an agent friend to get his opinion. The 215-page manuscript, circulated to publishers last October, sparked a frenzy of interest. Three different Hollywood producers agreed to pay $3 million for it. Evans eventually sold the book to Robert Redford after a soulful phone conversation. "He told me a story about riding in the mountains and seeing an antelope, a kind of communion they shared," Evans recalls. "He knew the book inside out and the--for want of a better word--spiritual things I was trying to get into...
...temptations of sun, sand and free drinks notwithstanding, Redford says, Harvard students are the souls of decorum...
...They enjoy themselves, just like everybody else," Redford says. "We see worse behavior when the Navy comes...