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Posted Jan 16th 2009 3:57PM by TMZ Staff
Here's 72-year-old Hollywood legend Robert Redford (left) at a screening at his Sundance Film Festival on Thursday -- and fabulous 82-year-old actress/comedian/spitfire Elaine Stritch (right).
One of them plays Alec Baldwin's mother on "30 Rock."
We're just sayin'.
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Posted Nov 18th 2006 12:00PM by TMZ Staff
In honor of George Clooney joining Brad Pitt as the only two-time Sexiest Man Alive, we've subtitled this week's all-male revue in similar, hyperbolic fashion. And we can't help but also think of Mel Gibson's immortal words back in 1985 upon being crowned the first such honoree: "That implies there are a lot of dead guys who got more points than I did."
O.J. Simpson ("Scariest Man Alive"): Resurrecting a cold case that even his Naked Gun pals could solve, Number #32 has suddenly decided to tackle third and very long with a most unusual play call – the hypothetical confession (or, it all depends what your definition of "if" is). Crusading dad Ron Goldman has already moved to seize any of the Florida author's personal proceeds from the new book; publisher Judith Regan has tried to justify her actions via a strained I-was-a-victim-too plea on The Drudge Report. But there's no getting around it; if Truman Capote were around today, he'd be readying a much better book about O.J., one that could very easily be called In Bold Blood.
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Posted Nov 8th 2006 1:36PM by TMZ Staff
Robert Redford, 70, celebrated the 25th anniversary of Sundance Institute yesterday, and apparently had a henna rinse before the party.
We think he's starting to resemble legendary Vitameatavegamin pitchwoman, Lucille Ball. And yes, we love them both.
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Posted Feb 23rd 2006 12:03PM by TMZ Staff
By JAKE COYLE, AP ENTERTAINMENT WRITER
Robert Redford says his Sundance Film Festival, which last month wrapped its 25th season, is "almost to a breaking point."
"It's gotten to the point now — almost to a breaking point — where there's a fever that has taken over the festival that creates an enormous amount of chaos and excitement and tension," the 68-year-old actor said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. "It's gotten a little bit harder on me."
Though the festival has become a larger spectacle over the years, Redford has long refrained from criticism about the changed nature of Sundance.
He created the independent film festival in 1981 to bring attention to small-budget films and new talent. Redford named the festival, held annually in the snowy mountains of Utah, after his breakthrough role in 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
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Posted Jan 26th 2006 11:36AM by TMZ Staff
By DAVID GERMAIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARK CITY, Utah -- Al Gore is not all that comfortable being a star of the Sundance Film Festival. He's far more concerned that the celebrity watchers hear what he has to say.
The former vice president came to town for the premiere of "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary chronicling what has become his crusade since losing the 2000 presidential election: Educating the masses that global warming is about to toast our ecology and our way of life.
Gore has been saying it for decades, since a college class in the 1960s convinced him that greenhouse gases from oil, coal and other carbon emissions were trapping the sun's heat in the atmosphere, resulting in a glacial meltdown that could flood much of the planet.
Americans have been hearing it for decades, wavering between belief and skepticism that it all may just be a natural part of Earth's cyclical warming and cooling phases.
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Tags: Al Gore, AlGore, Jennifer Anniston, JenniferAnniston, Jessica Biel, JessicaBiel, Josh Hartnett, JoshHartnett, Lucy Liu, LucyLiu, Robert Redford, RobertRedford, Sundance Film Festival, SundanceFilmFestival
Posted Jan 19th 2006 12:55PM by TMZ Staff
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Sundance Film festival may look as though it's gone Hollywood with all the celebrity bashes and corporate logos splashed around town. But those are trappings outside the control of Sundance, which has never wavered from its mission of discovery for new film talent, said Robert Redford, whose Sundance Institute oversees the festival.
At a news conference as the 11-day festival opened Thursday, Redford said Sundance's knack for showcasing films that went on to commercial success drew marketers hoping to share the limelight.
"Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours," Redford said. "We can't do anything about that. We can't control that."
While film fans crowd festival theaters to catch some of the 120 feature-length movies playing at Sundance, this ski-resort town buzzes with parties, concerts and other events to promote products ranging from jewelry and jeans to washing machines and sports-utility vehicles.
One reporter asked Redford if Sundance had evolved into a festival with a "Butch Cassidy" or a "Sundance Kid" personality, referring to the actor's pairing with Paul Newman in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
"Neither one," said Redford, who played Sundance to Newman's Butch. "It's hard for me to answer questions about `Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.' And also, it's such a commercial phrasing. I don't know that we've seen ourselves in that perspective. You might say `Treasure of the Sierra Madre."'
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Posted Dec 19th 2005 12:18PM by TMZ Staff
By FRAZIER MOORE, ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEVISION WRITER
NEW YORK -- Robert Redford recently did something not so unusual for him. He hung out with his pal Paul Newman.
But what was different: He did it for a documentary to air on Sundance Channel, the cable network he founded but seldom appears on.
As the season finale of "Iconoclasts," this hour-long portrait sticks to the format of the five that came before. It brings together a pair of innovators from different creative fields for one to serve as an admiring guide into the world of the other. Like chef Mario Batali on rocker Michael Stipe. Actress Renee Zellweger on correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
Or Redford on Newman beyond his role as screen legend. It premieres 10 p.m. EST Thursday (with additional play dates).
"It was never going to be 'The Paul and Bob Show,"' says Redford, who also executive-produced the series. "Instead, the idea of me presenting a friend who was also a colleague to speak about what inspired him -- his salad-dressing company, his racing interests, his camp for children -- those were areas that I thought were worthy of attention.
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