Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have been bigger than "Love Story." Robert Redford was supposed to screen his new morality play, the movie "Quiz Show," for first-years next Tuesday, and the Crimson Key had even printed the event on its Freshman Week T-shirts...
...last week, Redford canceled the show, saying he couldn't make the September 20 date he had originally suggested. Like the groom at the conclusion of the 1967 film "The Graduate," Harvard officials--who had scrambled to reschedule a host of activities to accommodate Redford and his film about the '50s TV game show scandals--were left standing at the altar...
...Last week, all of a sudden, they announced Mr. Redford wouldn't be coming," Dean of Freshman Elizabeth Studley Nathans said yesterday. "Now we have 150 press guides sitting on my shelf. They're very glossy, very fancy and now very useless...
...Redford appears to see his movie as in some ways a commentary on social and ethical values. I think he draws a somewhat oversimplistic line between the quiz show scandals and Watergate, etc.," she said. "He is in fact a bright and articulate man. We had looked forward to a piece that would be interesting and thought provoking and lead to discussions with proctors...
Back at Hot Zone, Redford, Foster and Scott were all hoping to make a good picture. But they could never agree on what that picture was. Scott wanted a thriller, a true-life version of Alien, his 1979 sci-fi horror epic, that was strong on hardware and icky special effects, with maybe an ecological message. Redford, who signed on for $8 million and who had script approval, wanted an ecological message movie about a heroic virologist from the Centers for Disease Control -- his role. Foster ($6 million and script approval) wanted an ecological thriller about a heroic Army pathologist...