As a Sundance virgin, I had no idea what to expect of Park City. Well, I got my first taste of it last night. It’s cold, obviously. It’s dry. And everybody blames everything on the elevation, which explains why I was more winded on the elliptical this morning than the overweight guy who chases Colin Farrell around in Bruges (that heavy Mexican dinner I had last night had NOTHING to do with it).
So my first event of the night was attending the In Bruges premiere with Whitney "El Jefe" Pastorek. As she’s noted, I got lost (somehow ended up on a highway, but not in a ditch, thankfully). It was all worth it, because I slid into my seat in time to see Robert Redford, aka My Biggest Crush of the ’70s (Paul Newman’s got the ’60s title), make an opening remark. There he was, 15 feet away from me, the man of The Sting, The Great Gatsby, The Way We Were and All the President’s Men. Just to give you some context, when I first got hired at EW a little less than two years ago, one of my first thoughts was, "Maybe I’ll get to interview Bob and Paul someday." While I have yet to interview either, this is a good start. Here’s hoping to run into him again in the next 10 days. If I do, what do you Redford fans think I should ask him?
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That’s awesome!
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ask him if he is going to make a romantic movie?
Tell him he has the greatest head of hair in the history of the human animal.
I know exactly how you feel, Vanessa…I’ve had a crush on Robert Redford for 25 years, maybe more…he’s a total icon…I would be thrilled to be as close to him as you have been…I dunno what I’d ask him, I’m sure I’d be too tongue-tied…
I loved Redford in “Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid” & “The Great Gatsby.” Ask him to join you for lunch! Live dangerously!
I’d like to know if he’s ever going forward with the rumored sequel to “The Candidate,” in which his Senator McKay character becomes president.
Vanessa he doesn’t stay for the 10 days anymore at the FF.So you better get to him fast if possible. I sat 10 feet from him at actors studio for 5 hours that he stayed. He’s terrific.
Ask him to lay off the Botox. He needs reminding that he is an incredible handsome, craggy, age-appropriate, man’s man, and no-one ever looked better with botox. NO ONE.
Tell him his intro. in the 2007 Sundance catalog which goes: (that moment when she passed from youth to old age is she aware of the moment) the answer is no, we are not aware and find it hard to believe..I have loved RR since I saw him in This Property Condemed.
Tell him his intro. in the 2007 Sundance catalog which goes: (that moment when she passed from youth to old age is she aware of the moment) the answer is no, we are not aware and find it hard to believe..I have loved RR since I saw him in This Property Condemed.
Tell him the Overweight Guy from In Bruges says “Hi!” ;o)