Or maybe Redford found out that Drysdale was using it on his ... um ... baseballs ...
Posted on 09/16/2025 9:37:33 AM PDT by Morgana
Screen legend Robert Redford has died at the age of 89.
The Oscar-winner died in his sleep on Tuesday at his home in Utah, outside of Provo, The New York Times reported.
The announcement of his death was made by Cindi Berger, the chief executive of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK.
Redford was one of the top Hollywood leading men for decades, appearing in blockbusters such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men.
His first big break came in 1963, when he starred on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, which he would later reprise.
He often starred alongside many of Hollywood's leading ladies at the time, like Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were in 1973, and Jane Fonda in the 1967 film, Barefoot in the Park.
The actor began directing later in life and won an Oscar for Ordinary People in 1980.
He founded the nonprofit Sundance Institute in 1981, which became a staple in the arts world for years to come.
n 1984, he transformed a struggling film festival into what's now known as The Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah.
It was a home for budding filmmakers to make a statement, famously featuring directors like Quentin Tarantino, Ava DuVernay, James Wan, and Darren Aronofsky.
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I have a family friend who worked for Redford. She showed me around Sundance back when it wasn’t much more than a resort building and his house. The film festival was just being organized.
Redford built the 2,600 acre Sundance ski resort in 1969 and eventually sold it.
“Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head...”
Redford Favorites:
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Jeremiah Johnson
The Natural
“Redford Favorites:
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Jeremiah Johnson
The Natural”
Pretty much mine also. Newman somewhat overshadowed him in The Sting.
Still watch The Natural and The Sting once or twice a year.
Although he was a leftist believing in the climate change hoax, he made a LOT of very good movies.
My favorites...
“The Natural” - arguably the greatest baseball movie ever
“Three Days of the Condor” - the first political movie I liked
“All the President’s Men” - well written and not too anti-GOP thanks to Redford.
Don Drysdale and Redford were classmates at Van Nuys High Schools.
Redford mentioned that he and Drysdale were teammates on the baseball team, but it was shown Redford played tennis and not baseball.
Both played American Legion baseball in the area, so it is possible they played against each other.
He also starred in my favorite Twilight Zone episode. “Nothing in the Dark”
Not always. My understanding is that he supported several prominent republicans in Utah at the state and local level, as well as the Bushies. He also endorsed Trump's book, Crippled America(2015), in which he stated "Trump's candidacy, I'm glad he's in there, being the way he is, and saying what he says and the ways he says it, I think shakes things up and I think that is very needed." (Although he was a Trump critic after the election.) His biggest downfall was that he was a hardcore environmentalist wacko -- probably a one issue voter.
“If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”
Like I said, that's for girls to decide.
Or maybe Redford found out that Drysdale was using it on his ... um ... baseballs ...
Schenectady is gorgeous. The movie was gorgeous.
Hmmm ... you can find a lot of references online and in print to Redford winning a college baseball scholarship. Was he lying about that?
I didn't like it, but to each his own I guess.
Great comment
Think you got enough dynamite there, Butch? I really don’t know what his politics were, but this girl thinks he was gorgeous.
Elderly urban dweller Wanda Dunn has fought with Death a thousand times and always won. Now she is afraid to let wounded policeman Harold Beldon in her tenement's door for fear that he is Death incarnate. Is he?
They said the camera loved Redford. It was flat out impossible for the dude to look bad on film. He even lost out on roles for being too pretty.
His leftward tilt was mostly environmental causes. He bought up a whole mountain in UT so it wouldn’t get developed.
I always thought that was really good casting and he did a good job.
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