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Actor icon, movie producer and director, and founder of the famous Sundance Festival, Robert Redford, passed away very recently, at age 89, after 60+ years of amazing professional work in the cinematic industry. In addition to his $1B+ career box office receipts, he won numerous Oscars and other major awards and helped kickstart the careers of many dozens of – then - unknown indie filmmakers like Quentin Taratino, Steve Soderbourgh, Richard Linklater, Rian Johnson and many others, too numerous to list here.
Redford practiced a double, contradictory life. While continuing to work within the Hollywood system throughout his career (to finance his indie activities?), Redford also legitimized independent filmmaking for all time and -as much as any one person could- re-shaped how American movies were both made - and the neglected topics they dramatized.
In this episode, Anuradha and I initially discuss Mr. Redford’s overall career and then we replay a famous past episode of this pod where we discuss the Watergate Scandal – and concurrently – Redford’s very first maiden, movie producing effort, “All The President’s Men”, which became an unlikely bock office hit and won 4 Oscars.
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