Redford Kicks Off Sundance on a Political Note

[MelissaB]

Friday January 21, 2:31 PM

Redford Kicks Off Sundance on a Political Note
By Bob Tourtellotte

(Okay, I'm a woman and I love this man. :) )

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival kicked off on Thursday with a political tone struck by founder Robert Redford, who called independent film a voice of dissent and encouraged movie-makers to speak their minds.

The curtain rose at the premier U.S. gathering for independent movies on the same day President Bush was inaugurated for his second term, which was not lost on Redford, the Oscar winning actor and director of movies like "The Sting" and "Ordinary People."

Redford told a packed house at Sundance's opening-night premier of the tolerance-themed comedy "Happy Endings" that a goal of the festival was to give a platform to a diverse group of filmmakers with something to say about the times.

"This is really a festival about different voices in film that really reflect, a little more accurately, the world we live in," Redford said.

More here: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050121/3/3q082.html

[Sydnie]

1. I love him too (yet another woman's opinion!) n/t

[MelissaB]

2. What I meant to say is

this is such an important news item. (Well, it is, but darn he is beautiful!)

[Sydnie]

4. Can't we have both? Please? n/t

[MichiganVote]

3. Gorgeous through and through

[ClintonTyree]

5. That's great, but.......................

he's preaching to the choir. To the red-state idiots who voted for *, he's just another of those lying Hollywood "libruls" who are trying to subvert Democracy is this country.
I love the man as well, and I'm a man (you know what I mean). He's always stood for equality and truthfulness. I hope he reaches some of the bushbots, but I'm not holding my breath.