RIP Robert Redford

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

Always thought the same thing. Figured without Hobbs, they got swept in the Series; they were Rockies-level incompetent without him.

I’ve also thought that it’s unlikely the Knights did anything in the World Series. They stunk without Hobbs; Roy wouldn’t have played because if one game could kill him, four to seven more would definitely kill him. Pop also says in the shaving scene with Red that all he wants to do is win a pennant, wouldn’t care about the Series; that he’s be satisfied whether they won or lost and he’d go buy a farm.

 

[Chef2]

I’m watching my favorite Redford movie tonight.
The Sting.
I’ll go to sleep with that train whistle blaring.
IYKYK.

 

[garrow]

 

[Huggy]

I’m watching my favorite Redford movie tonight.
The Sting.
I’ll go to sleep with that train whistle blaring.
IYKYK.

Gonna stick around for your share?

Nah, I'd only blow it.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Speaking of Roy Hobbs ...

 

[Deskgrunt50]

RIP to a legend. On camera and behind the camera. And using his clout to advance excellent causes.

Love All the President’s Men and a The Natural, of course. Sneakers is a fave.

My group of close friends barely goes a week without quoting Butch and Sundance. And it came out five years before all of us were born.

 

[Webster]

I’m watching my favorite Redford movie tonight.
The Sting.
I’ll go to sleep with that train whistle blaring.
IYKYK.

I absolutely love The Sting but that is really a Newman tour de force more than anything.

 

[User 4332]

Was a high school classmate of Don Drysdale, but not a teammate, despite what legend may say.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/bl...d-play-high-school-baseball-with-don-drysdale
When I saw the news this morning, I thought of my mom, who had a massive crush on him. RIP.

That was my dearly departed aunt, for me. She used to love making a Next-Best-Thing-To-Robert-Redford pie and telling us all about what a star he was when she was young.

The first movie I remember seeing him in was "Sneakers". Later on I went back and caught up on much of his catalog. Truly incredible career.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Like "The Way We Were." An underrated gem is "An Unfinished Life." Good rapport between Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman.

RIP, good sir and Thank You.

 

[Chef2]

I absolutely love The Sting but that is really a Newman tour de force more than anything.

You are a million times right. Newman made that movie sing. Redford was just a backup singer. Still love love love the movie.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Since this is a sports site, he was excellent in Downhill Racer, about a loner skier trying to make the Olympics.

He plays against type because he is surly and angry most of the time. A scene when his father asks why he wastes his time skiing is poignant as hell.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Loved The Candidate, and how does a journo board go this long without a mention of All The Presidents Men?

And one of the reasons I wanted to get into journalism when I got older

 

[qtlaw]

Since this is a sports site, he was excellent in Downhill Racer, about a loner skier trying to make the Olympics.

He plays against type because he is surly and angry most of the time. A scene when his father asks why he wastes his time skiing is poignant as hell.

That was the film I was trying to recall......loved it.

 

[qtlaw]

You are a million times right. Newman made that movie sing. Redford was just a backup singer. Still love love love the movie.

Don't forget Quint!!

 

[HanSenSE]

We are slipping as a board if we don't mention how great he was in "The Client."

 

[Webster]

Always thought the same thing. Figured without Hobbs, they got swept in the Series; they were Rockies-level incompetent without him.

Pop and Red ride off into the sunset

 

[garrow]

What a good looking couple

 

[swingline]

I’ll liked him in Spy Game with Pitt.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

In terms of TV journalism, “Up Close And Personal” wasn’t a bad film that he was in with Michelle Pfeiffer.

 

[SixToe]

Ordinary People was fabulous and gut-wrenching.

My late mother took me to see All the President's Men at a theater. I remember watching the Watergate hearings and seeing it in the newspaper. After seeing the movie, I knew then as a middle-schooler that I wanted to do something in newspapers.