Robert Redford passes
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Remember watching him in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Jeremiah Johnson. After he was in JJ, he loved the area it was filmed in, and he bought the land. He named it Sundance, and even the film festival as well. I went to Sundance many years ago with my wife. I think she was looking for him there. Nope. Beautiful place! RIP sir!
The Twilight Zone episode was called Nothing in the Dark.
He played Death
He played Death
protoolman
Service-Sixer
Must have been thinking of another star. Jeremiah Johnson was truly a great movie. As a kid I lived in the rocky mountains of Montana watching that movie just added to my wandering the mountains near my home picking huckleberries, hunting birds, tried panning for gold, found my uncle's old traps, etc. Used to get invited to PowWows with my Indian acquaintances etc. The movie really fed the buckskinner, black powder movement.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Some major stars were pretty short like Alan Ladd (5'6") and Tom Cruise (5'7"). I think that this causes many people to think that many actors are shorter than they are.
I had a co-worker who insisted that Charleton Heston was only 5'9". His IMDB listed height is 6'4". I met him when he was about 80, he looked me right in the eyes and I'm 6'2"
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Hondo44
Hawkeye
Has anyone heard the cause of death yet?
That should be on his headstone
As to the cause of death, all that I have seen is that "he died in his sleep". But he was 89.
That's how I want to go too, just like my grandfather and not like the other people int the car screaming and trying to wake him up....
Sorry Contender... could not help myself.
Jeremiah Johnson, Butch & Sundance & The Sting are for sure in the top100 and I would even speculate from my perspective the top 15.
One of my bestest friends loves the first of those and I gave him a reproduction of Liver Eating Johnson's knife a few years ago so that if when he's out west elk hunting and he has a need and can 'skin a Griz' if need be.
Some of you folks want to turn everything political... I'll say this and I know it's off subject...
In my short time on this wet rock I've learned that a man's politics or religion has nothing to do with if he is actually good or not and if I will like him and call him a friend... but maybe that is just me...
Thinking about the passing of Robert Redford reminds me of what a strange society we live in, where a person who makes believe who he is for a living can make millions, while someone who actually makes things or grows food might just get by.
Yes, and not to mention professional athletes.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Interestingly, a guy who can take your heart out and put a new one in, gets paid less than a guy can cry on command or run with a football.
protoolman
Service-Sixer
When I got elected Judge part of the expected standards was judges can't be political because that might mean someone questions your impartiality. I had the absolute legal right to campaign for anyone I wanted but if I did and it messed up the public perception -totally my fault. I wish actors would be held to the same standard - sell yourself as a good actor to everyone not one party or the other. MGM is selling movies not dissent or saving the whales or whatever. MGM hands you a popularity megaphone to make money not make yourself an Azz proving you know nothing about reality because what you are good at is fantasy.
