PAST TIMES: ROBERT REDFORD
Late 1960s and 1970s cinema was dominated by three all-American blond-haired, blue-eyed actors: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Robert Redford. To a man, they wore Rolex watches both on and off screen. However, when offered a yellow-gold Rolex Submariner, Redford declined saying: “I am not a gold kind of guy.”
Redford’s unassuming attitude sums up the laconic, understated screen presence that occasionally frustrated film critics such as the ’s David Denby, who wrote: “Robert Redford has always been a natural, intuitive, unemphatic movie actor who draws us close with his good looks and his sweet candor and then shuts us out by never revealing much of himself.” The “stillness” approach to screen acting — feeling instead
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