.....that it does THIS to Robert Redford.
Posted on 01/16/2009 9:18:11 AM PST by LottieDah
Robert Redford is looking forward to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's imminent inauguration more than most - because he can't wait to see "lame-duck" George W. Bush leave the White House.
The Hollywood legend spoke of his excitement about the controversial president's departure, ahead of Obama being sworn into office on Tuesday.
And the veteran actor took time out of his promotional duties for his Sundance Film Festival on Thursday to tell reporters about his optimism for America's future.
He says, "I'm personally excited just because I'm glad to see the gang that couldn't shoot straight get out of there. I'm glad to see them gone.
"You've got a lame-duck guy going out, but he sure has done a lot of quacking in the last while. So therefore, the sooner they're gone, the better, and therefore, I'm very excited by the change that's coming."
Meanwhile, Redford hopes that a Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. will mean the arts receive more government funding.
He adds, "They (the arts) were fighting the political machine of the extreme right that saw art as some kind of threat.
"So I think that's going to change. What I would like to see is, a country like ours should certainly be subsidising, a little bit more than it is, art in general. Other countries do. They've cut it down to the bone. There's practically nothing left."
Redford has used the Utah-based festival - which he co-founded in 1978 - as a platform to publicly criticise Bush in the past.
I'm a senior on social security. The government effectively owns me. Yes, I'm afraid...
During World War II, Hollywood did everything it could to fight our enemies. In the last eight years, Hollywood did everything it could to fight George Bush. Hollywood should go back to creating fantasies, and shut up.
Yep.
I'm excited that Robert Redford hasn't been cast in a male leading role since The Horse Whisperer a decade ago. Looks like it was his swan song to the public and now his acting jobs consist of voicing a horse on Charlotte's Web. Good riddance!
It’s possible Hollywood contributed to fighting our enemies in WWII because our “ally” was the Soviet Union.
Read Eugene Lyon’s “The Red Decade in Hollywood”. Written in 1940, still applicable today.
Anyway, Redford is a wrinkled up little has-been creep who hates America. Or does that describe Jimmah Carter?
Hey Bobby... where in the U.S. Constitution is the clause stating funding the "arts" is a God-given right?
Don't bother answering... I/we know the answer.
Another thing... must really piss you off that Mr. President sees things in black and white (no gray)... that he got tired of seeing America getting punched in the nose over and over during the Clinton days (USS Cole, World Trade Center bombing, African U.S. embassies getting bombed, etc.).
President Bush had enough... deciding it was time to NOT show up to a gun fight with just a knife.
Screw the rest of the world when they say they don't see America in high regard... let them eat cake... you too Bobby.
That's my soapbox rant... please drive through.
The next industry that should go down is hollywood!!All they count on is sex and the cultural of beauty. How much of anything is good that comes from hollywood? They hate middle America and they believe in their views,abortion and homosexuality and anything sexual and call it creative genius.People have lost their jobs,health care and this guy talks about money for the ARTS? IDIOT!
Robert Redford excited? I thought he was dead.
That could be considered as a sin tax!
.....that it does THIS to Robert Redford.
No, that was Snake Pliskin.
I heard a rumor that David Duke shares this same excitement
Maybe David Duke and Robert Redford should start a “bromance”.
Really? Says who?
I think some of these people are so delusional they think the American public voted in Obama just for them.
He can kiss my hairy white ass too, after he gets done with all the others.
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