Posted on 10/09/2018 3:09:27 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
"Our civil servants have failed us," he said in a statement.
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Robert Redford may be done acting, but he’s not riding off into the sunset anytime soon. The actor, filmmaker, and Sundance Film Festival founder published “A Brief Statement About Big Things” on the Sundance Institute’s website yesterday, writing that he feels “out of place in the country I was born into” for the first time he can remember and that he has “watched with sadness as our civil servants have failed us.”
The overtly political speech was published the same day that Brett Kavanaugh’s ascension to the Supreme Court following a nasty confirmation process that once again emphasized how bitterly divided the country has become. Neither Kavanaugh nor anyone else is mentioned by name, but Redford citing “bigotry, mean-spiritedness, and mockery as the now-normal tools of the trade” suggests his anger probably isn’t directed at Amy Klobuchar.
(Excerpt) Read more at indiewire.com ...
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LOL
Not following you Bobby.
Glad you’re feeling out of place, wrinkly old Bobby! Now get the hell out!
Robert Redford: HYDRA operative in the movies and in real life.
Any time you want to take some off your hands, call me.
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