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Robert Redford (with Professor Annette Insdorf) at Yale University.
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(photo: Robert Liebman) |
"On its heels, he appeared in the likes of Downhill Racer, Jeremiah Johnson and The Candidate, then, in 1973, cemented his star status with The Way We Were and The Sting. 'I didn’t know The Sting would have the impact it did,” he said at Yale. “I didn’t even know what the plot was. Paul Newman didn’t, either.'” |
Actress Raquel Welch wrote, produced and starred in an ambitious and arty TV program, From Raquel with Love. Robert interviewed her for the cover story in After Dark magazine, but the show aired much earlier than originally scheduled and the profile never appeared. (Industry scuttlebutt held that network executives screened it early expressly to suppress publicity.) |
After Dark killed the profile outright, and Robert modified it for a neighbourhood Manhattan newspaper instead. |
"I don’t compare myself to Barbra Streisand, but I’ve always admired her. I remember all the terrible stories when she first arrived in Hollywood—that she was impossible, that no one could take her. Then Funny Girl came out and everyone had to shut up, to concede that she was immensely talented."
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Warhol exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London.
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"The bullet cleanly penetrated four canvases, whereupon the mischievously entrepreneurial artist proclaimed that, henceforth, Orange Marilyn shall be known as Shot Orange Marilyn, Red Marilyn as Shot Red Marilyn, and likewise for Sage Blue and Light Blue Marilyn. A bullethole in a canvas was an occasion for renaming, not restoring." |
Robert wrote a potted biography, summarised the Canterbury Tales and other poems, selected critical essays, provided a brief history of the era, and wrote some original essays for this CD-ROM on the medieval poet.
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Film/Literature Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1984
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