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In reply to the discussion: Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 [View all]JustAnotherGen
(37,030 posts)40. I loooooooooooved him
By the time I was six, and two UHF channel movies my dad knew I wouldn't bring anyone ugly home!
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Poitier
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Double R Superstar
Rest in Power Bob. I'm very lucky to have been on the planet with you, Sidney, and River Phoenix in my lifetime. I'll be watching Sneakers tonight in honor of him . . . and the smorgasbord of hotness with the three of them being in the same movie.
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Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 [View all]
BumRushDaShow
21 hrs ago
OP
Too many times used quote but here. Men wanted to be him, women wanted to be with him.
twodogsbarking
16 hrs ago
#83
I had the opportunity to meet him and he was really a nice and interesting person
Pachamama
20 hrs ago
#4
He didn't know that women turned guys down when asked for a date. Really.
twodogsbarking
20 hrs ago
#10
Damn, I just watched him and all the other greats in "A Bridge Too Far" last night.
Efilroft Sul
20 hrs ago
#12
Couldn't even add a comment because I liked him in so many things but here is one related to the now
BumRushDaShow
20 hrs ago
#19
From Variety: "With his environmental activism, anti-establishment approach
highplainsdem
20 hrs ago
#25
Adored him for decades. He was a great activist as well as an actor. I got to
sinkingfeeling
20 hrs ago
#32
RiP to one of the greats. All his other great movies are mentioned here but mine will always be The Hot Rock
ms liberty
19 hrs ago
#50
Ah! Didn't know he also reached out to kids in his environmentalism....
electric_blue68
12 hrs ago
#93
Would love to see Redford's funeral service scheduled for this coming Sunday.
Paladin
17 hrs ago
#69
The one thing I recall was that his Sundance Film Festival was moving out of Utah
BumRushDaShow
9 hrs ago
#104