A genuinely dazzling movie star who used his charm, influence, and money to give aspiring filmmakers a leg up in the movie business, to help protect the natural world from those who would strip it bare for their own gain, to show by example how film storytelling can not only reflect facets of the American character but help shape it: a human being who could do all that seems almost impossible to fathom in this age of disinformation, misinformation, and ugly political discord. But that was Robert Redford, who died on September 16 at age 89. Redford was an actor, a producer, a director; over the course of his long career, he touched every aspect of the movie business. But most essentially, he was a communicator, an artist who could speak to us in a place beyond words, with just the flicker o
Robert Redford’s Face Could Tell Nothing But the Truth

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