Word: redfords
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BOOKS . . . MONSTER: LIVING OFF THE BIG SCREEN: John Gregory Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. One of those, the Robert Redford?Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, 'Up Close and Personal,' is the subject of Dunne?s new book (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Originally the film was to be based on a biography of Jessica Savitch, the television reporter who died with her boyfriend in 1983 when their car accidentally rolled into the Delaware Canal near Philadelphia. But the details...
BOOKS . . . MONSTER: LIVING OFF THE BIG SCREEN: John Gregory Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. One of those, the Robert Redford?Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, 'Up Close and Personal,' is the subject of Dunne?s new book (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Originally the film was to be based on a biography of Jessica Savitch, the television reporter who died with her boyfriend in 1983 when their car accidentally rolled into the Delaware Canal near Philadelphia. But the details...
...America's 25 Most Influential People, and I know most readers have their own ideas about who should and should not be on the list [TIME 25, June 17]. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about people such as William Julius Wilson and Stephen Covey. I was glad to see Robert Redford and Toni Morrison included. I even thought the controversial choices, like Louis Farrakhan and Michael Hammer, were O.K. too. They certainly are influential today. ELAINE PONDANT Carrollton, Texas...
...would a hunky Hollywood star want to promote un-Hollywood films? "I've never been at ease with formula," says Redford, 58. "And around 1980 films were getting more formulaic, more like cartoons. Diversity was in danger. Helping independent film was a way to keep the industry broad." So in 1981 he created the Sundance Institute. It was host to powwows with indie and industry heavyweights, gave grants to some films and in February launched a Sundance cable channel. The institute has even gone global, inviting foreign talent to Utah...
...Redford frets that independent film now has a "Belle Epoque fashion." But if it's lucky, it will last as long, and weather as smartly, as its most cogent cheerleader...