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Robert Redford's latest film, "The Company You Keep," in which he plays a former radicalized activist, may represent a full circle walk for the aging actor.
She inspired a novel and a movie starring Robert Redford when in 1949 she lured a major league ballplayer she'd never met into a hotel room with a cryptic note and shot him, nearly killing him.
The scene: a Manhattan art-house theater. The cause: a campaign against the gas drilling process known as fracking that's being led by more than 100 celebrities, including Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Robert Redford, Mark Ruffalo and Mario Batali.
The Sundance Film Festival has never been sexier.
Alexandra Pelosi was beaming: She had just made her Sundance Film Festival debut with the HBO documentary "Fall to Grace," about former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey; her mother, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was on hand to witness it; and Sundance's founder and Pelosi's hero, Robert Redford, made it a point to stop by to witness the event.
Alexandra Pelosi was beaming: She had just made her Sundance Film Festival debut with the HBO documentary "Fall to Grace," about former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey; her mother, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, was on hand to witness it; and Sundance's founder and Miss Pelosi's hero, Robert Redford, made it a point to stop by to witness the event.
Alexandra Pelosi was beaming: She had just made her Sundance Film Festival debut with the HBO documentary "Fall from Grace," about former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey; her mother, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was on hand to witness it; and Sundance's founder and Pelosi's hero, Robert Redford, made it a point to stop by to witness the event.
Anna Deavere Smith has won one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts.
Diversity is king at the Sundance Film Festival _ and queen, too.
Everybody wants a piece of Robert Redford. Young filmmakers talking him up for advice on the street. The stewardess on an airplane who mentions her son has this idea. The guy with a videotape under his arm who looked so grungy Redford thought he was a panhandler.
It's that time of year again when a tiny ski-resort town becomes the place to be for anyone in show business _ stars and directors, distribution executives, musicians, unknown filmmakers hoping that people might want to hear the stories they tell.
Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.
Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge. His hard life and wartime trauma provided the basis for a prolific 50-year career as a consummate Oscar-nominated character actor, playing everyone from a Nazi colonel to the pope to Dustin Hoffman's would-be suitor in "Tootsie."
Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Amanda Seyfried as porn star Linda Lovelace are among the highlights at January's Sundance Film Festival.
Even by White House standards, President Obama's guests in the East Room on Sunday night were as talented and diverse as they come.
"When I was younger, I was very much aware of the movement," he said Tuesday on "Good Morning America." "I was more than sympathetic. I was probably empathetic because I believed it was time for a change. Whether that was change was a revolution or not, I don't know. But I was very much for what was going on."
Robert Redford: I felt 'empathetic' for violent '60s radicals →
Mr. Redford, whose character is forced to flee after a reporter reveals his identity and background, said he still felt compassion for the true-life radicals after making the film.
Robert Redford: I felt 'empathetic' for violent '60s radicals →
