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What this movie is going to be about is evident from the start because they telegraph it with a flare gun. We fade in to the latest casualty report from Iraq. It's bad news, the report and the movie, really a filmed polemic that gives new meaning to the term "talkie." Here Hollywood liberals showcase their incoherence and fondle their favorite incantation. In Lions for Lambs, the war on terror is nothing more than a replay of Vietnam. Ambitious, warmongering politicians are sending kids, especially blacks and latinos, to die in fields afar, victims of inept strategy and an overextended,...

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Dull Roar The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, utterly terrible war drama by Ella Taylor November 6th, 2007 1:14 PM Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made about American foreign policy—and it wasn't even written by Aaron Sorkin. Hot young screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan is fresh off his alpha-male script forThe Kingdom, which would explain the presence early on of that movie's director, Peter Berg, striding around Afghanistan in a buzz cut and stiff upper lip, barking bytes from Von Clausewitz and...

Robert Redford has defended Tom Cruise, insisting the Hollywood superstar's behaviour was perfectly normal on the set of their new movie. -SNIP-In an interview with Playboy magazine, Redford says: "Tom's a talented actor and I think people will respond positively to him (in Lions For Lambs)… "I didn't concern myself with the gossip - I never do - and I knew enough from what I've been through to judge the man based on what I experience firsthand. And I didn't see any behaviour on the film that troubled me. Really."

ROBERT REDFORD walks into the “Lions for Lambs” offices here drenched from a run in the late-morning furnace of August in the Napa Valley. It’s good preparation; he’s likely to face plenty of heat this fall. He’s putting the finishing touches on his most political movie since “All the President’s Men,” and he’s bracing for a backlash. As if to fire himself up for battle Mr. Redford has tacked op-ed columns blasting the Bush administration to a bulletin board in the rented house he turned into a postproduction complex. “A profile in cowardice,” reads one headline. “This time, don’t say...

Grand Junction Mayor Jim Doody ... is one of 40 mayors in the country who will gather in Utah for four days beginning Sunday to learn the latest information on global warming — and what cities can do to address it. The third-annual Sundance Summit is co-hosted by actor Robert Redford’s environmental nonprofit organization, Sundance Preserve, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. “For me, personally, (it is about) being an elected official trying to balance all the growth we have here, all the great resources we have here,” Doody said. “At the...

Hollywood legend Robert Redford has called on US leaders to apologise for the war in Iraq.The actor was speaking at the start of the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where the opening movie recalled protests over the Vietnam war in 1968. Redford said he, like many others, had shown a "spirit of unity" with the US government after 11 September 2001. "We put all our concerns on hold to let the leaders lead," he said. "I think we're owed a big, massive apology." The actor, whose Sundance Institute for independent film runs the annual festival, usually steers clear of political...

SACRAMENTO - Robert Redford has added a celebrity touch to those urging California voters to reject a sweeping eminent domain initiative. In an e-mail sent this week to more than 172,000 members of the Natural Resources Defense Council and made public Tuesday, Redford described the eminent domain proposition as "the single most dangerous threat that has ever been leveled at our state's environment." Put on the November ballot by property rights activists, Proposition 90 would amend the state Constitution to make it harder and more costly for governments to condemn property or pass regulations that affect land values. "Anytime our...

WASHINGTON (June 12, 2006) -- The Sundance Kid gathered up the nerve to jump off a cliff with Butch Cassidy. Now, he wants Democrats to show similar backbone. "Democrats need to regain the courage that's lost with political compromises over the last few years," actor and environmental activist Robert Redford said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. "They've got to get it together. If they don't, it will not only be a tragedy for them, but a tragedy for the country." The Oscar-winning director was in Washington to discuss energy policy with the liberal group Campaign for America's...

Here’s where the film’s big fun really begins. We pan to the Che: he is standing behind a prisoner; the prisoner is on his knees, his head bent forward; the Che is holding a .45 caliber handgun and has it pointed at the back of the prisoner’s head; he pulls the trigger; we hear the explosion of the round leaving the handgun and the prisoner lurches forward and falls, crumpled onto the ground.

WASHINGTON - The stars — "Sundance Kid" Robert Redford, pop diva Tina Turner and crooner Tony Bennett, among them — were coming out early to be honored at the White House for a lifetime of achievement. Members of the 28th annual class of Kennedy Center honorees were being singled out at a reception Sunday afternoon by the president and first lady for their contributions to the arts and culture. Artists from around the world were to join President Bush and Laura Bush in an evening ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The honorees are: _Turner,...

Robert Redford played "Washington Post" reporter Bob Woodward in "All the President’s Men." He also produced that film, which included various scenes of Robert Redford as Bob Woodward meeting his source in secluded locations. With the unraveling of the Deep Throat mystery Tuesday, Robert Redford sat down with Chris Matthews to share his experiences making the movie, working with Woodward and Bernstein, and the mystery of Deep Throat. I was attracted to the story, because I think that’s the basis of any good entertainment, starting with a good story. It was 1972 that I actually got involved with it. At...

Robert Redford and George Soros surely make one of the oddest couples in American pop culture. For most of us, Redford’s all-American good looks evoke images of the dashing outlaw Harry Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid. By contrast, Soros’ gaunt visage, thousand-yard stare, thick Central European accent, levitating gray hair and megalomaniacal pronouncements weirdly echo those of the “Dr. Strangelove” character in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War classic. The differences between these two men are only skin deep, however. Both owe allegiance to the far left. And both work quietly, in a sinister partnership, to flood U.S. media...

Come listen to a story 'bout a man named Redford, a poor movie star barely kept his family fed (lord!) and then one day he was filming in the nuuuuude!, when the election results from the masses turned rude. Foiled again, black-souled, Texas T...KO'd Well, the first thing ya know he's called the millionaires, said I'm off to Ireland, got to get away from here, he said California's just not the place to beeeeeee.... so he loaded up his chums and they moved from Beverly. Hills, that is, No more swimmin' pools...no more movie stars. And their tickets called for...

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Democrats are in a snit over a conservative-leaning broadcast group's plan to air a documentary critical of John Kerry just before the election.... [The DNC] filed a complaint with the [FEC], arguing that Sinclair is violating the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law by giving a valuable "in-kind" contribution to the Bush campaign. Kerry adviser Chad Clanton even threatened to abuse the power of the Federal Communications Commission if Kerry is elected, warning that Sinclair "better hope we don't win." ...After all, many news groups surely would fail such a test, their news coverage rendered no more than "in-kind" contributions to their favored...

Remember this? --> Democrats file formal complaint over anti-Kerry film Well heck, boys and girls, lookie here... I guess it's hunky dory with the DNC that Robert Redford's Sundance Channel airs all this ... beyond Franken...check the dates! Directly from the Sundance Channel program guide schedule.FORD TRANSIT Documentary Filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad provides a rare chance to listen to conversations among West Bank Palestinians as they take a ride in a Ford mini-van shuttling between Ramallah and Jerusalem. Their driver is Rajai Khatib, a charismatic rebel adept at negotiating - and sometimes avoiding - the many roadblocks and checkpoints that make...

Las Vegas - The Bush administration is "intentionally blind" to the needs of the environment and has rolled back years of advances in improving air and water quality, actor and activist Robert Redford said on Wednesday. "Sadly, the erosion that's occurred is disastrous, frightening and dangerous," Redford said. Speaking at an event sponsored by the Environmental Accountability Fund, a political action committee, Redford said he is insulted when President George W Bush and vice-president Dick Cheney tout their status as Westerners. "I take particular offence as a Westerner when I see all the swagger and all the strutting. .... And...

(CBS/AP) With just over three weeks until the first Bush-Kerry debate (domestic policy, Sept. 30), former President Carter has revealed he had help acting like a candidate from an actor who played a candidate. Actor and filmmaker Robert Redford played videotapes of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate "over and over" to coach Jimmy Carter before his debates with former President Gerald Ford. Redford played California Democratic senate hopeful Bill McKay in the 1972 film "The Candidate," which won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. "I was probably president because of Bob Redford," said Mr. Carter, who confided that before the...

Dear Friend, It is understandable that we Americans feel an almost reflexive need for unanimity in trying times like these. As a nation, we are rightly consumed with responding to the terrorist attacks on September 11th. But, at some point -- and I think we're beginning to get there -- we need to take a long-term view even as we are reacting to the current crisis. Really important domestic issues facing us before all of this happened -- education, energy and the environment, health care -- still have the same dimension and consequence. But we have to recognize that ...