Few in the performing arts reached the heights of success as had Robert Redford (who died this past week at the age of 89). Starting with “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (the 1969 film directed by George Roy Hill and co-starring Paul Newman), every movie Redford acted in was a hit. Speaking of Paul Newman (who also co-starred with Redford in the 1973 movie “The Sting” and directed as well by George Roy Hill), there was a public perception of the two great actors as best friends.

But as indicated in the 2011 book Robert Redford: The Biography by Michael Feeney Callan, though Redford and Newman were good friends, they weren’t close friends (much less best friends). Indeed, in all the years Redford ran the Sundance Ranch (a site for independent films located in Utah), Newman visited onl

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