Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, I saw "Sneakers," the new Sidney Poitier-Robert Redford film about Orwellian government use of technology capable of unearthing just about any iota of informations it wants on individual citizens...
CINEMA Robert Redford sneaks through an endearing caper...
...home team in this movie has the shambling air of good-natured, slightly out-of-it sandlotters. Bishop (a well-cast Robert Redford) is a sometime merry prankster, still on the run for computer crimes he committed in the '60s; he now heads a marginal enterprise that does legalized breaking and entering designed to test corporate security systems. His associates include a defrocked cia operative (Sidney Poitier); a gentle paranoid (Dan Aykroyd) who believes the same group that killed Jack Kennedy also framed Pete Rose; a blind computer whiz (David Strathairn) whose keyboard -- and Playboy -- are in Braille...
...cast FAME'S PERIL (pocket Books; $19). Harrison Ford could play ace reporter Jack Werts -- a man's man fed up with the Hollywood newsbeat and a dedicated chaser of bimbos. Ceci McCann, ambitious blond TV reporter, could be played by any number of ambitious blond starlets. And Robert Redford could play the star turned director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil...
What most Americans know about Cuba is Fidel Castro in fatigues and Ricky Ricardo singing Babalu. Its geography is Havana, a bad movie starring Robert Redford, and -- somewhere on the coast -- something called the Bay of Pigs. Add memories of big cigars, and white sugar, which now poses a greater threat to American health than communism. Otherwise, Cuba has been a closed port 90 miles off the U.S. coast, the plague island of the Caribbean...