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Robert Redford (1936–2025): Farewell to the Sundance Kid
The Kid Who Wasn’t Supposed to Make It Before the golden hair and the grin that launched a thousand magazine covers, Charles Robert Redford Jr. was a sickly kid from Santa Monica who nearly died of polio, a self-described bad student who drank his way out of a baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado,…
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: How Robert Redford Became a Movie Star
“You’re in Your First $50 Million Picture” Picture the first day of rehearsals, early 1968. Paul Newman — already the biggest movie star on the planet — sits down at the read-through table across from a young television actor with golden hair and almost no film career to speak of. Newman leans in, grins that…