Robert Redford , who died Tuesday at age 89 , was a major movie star with the soul of a ‘60s rebel but the appetites of a Hollywood celebrity. He loved movies but distrusted studios and disliked Hollywood and Los Angeles as places to live or work.

His contradictory traits were usually hidden from public view but revealed in off-camera moments. While Redford was the symbol of Hollywood stardom in movies like The Way We Were and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid he was also the champion of indie filmmaking – hence his stewardship of Sundance in all its rituals and successes.

To his admirers Redford was the handsome, smooth-talking star who always got the girl. To his friends he also was a tough-minded environmentalist and a champion of Native American causes who seemed most satisfi

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