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Some celebrities in the West have gone a step further, elevating Castro to an almost mythical status. In recent years, a parade of American movie stars has visited the island gulag to mug with its Communist bully. Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg have all made pilgrimages southward to express their groupie-like adoration for Castro. Costner said watching the premiere of his film “Thirteen Days” with the despot was “the experience of a lifetime,” while Spielberg called his November 2002 dinner with Castro...
...Sundance Film Festival, but even if you're not in the film biz or a friend of Gwyneth Paltrow's, it's not too late to be part of the glitzy fun. Instead of trying to cram into overbooked Park City, stay 40 minutes away at Robert Redford's 6,000-acre resort in Sundance Village. Packages are still available, starting at $295 a night, and include screenings of some of the films being shown at the festival and skiing on a surprisingly uncrowded mountain. Celeb spotting is free. --By Lisa McLaughlin
Some actors who pick up the megaphone get an immediate Academy reward. Robert Redford (Ordinary People) and Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) won Best Director Oscars their first time out, and both triumphed in years when Martin Scorsese, widely acclaimed as the most potent picturemaker around, had strong contenders (Raging Bull and GoodFellas). This year Scorsese is likely to be nominated for Gangs of New York. Does he have nightmares of another first timer--Washington or Clooney--tiptoeing up Oscar's steps...
...fashioned storytelling in some of Hollywood's most popular big-star entertainments of the 1960s and '70s; after a battle with Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A stickler for quality who made just 14 movies in a three-decade career, he popularized the duo of Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973) and made acclaimed film versions of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and John Irving's The World According to Garp...
...Number of recent actors turned part-time directors who won Best Director: Robert Redford (Ordinary People), Warren Beatty (Reds), Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) and Mel Gibson (Braveheart...