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2 In 1972, Adams asked Ayres: Interview with Richard Ayres, October 18, 1997.
3 After a period of friction with Hill: Letter from George Roy Hill to Bill Goldman, undated but appears to be July 1973: “Bill, I am in the process of outlining the script changes.… I think it is unrealistic to think we could ever work together again as we once did.” George Roy Hill Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles.
4 Hill’s notebooks attest to great ambition: Documents regarding The Great Waldo Pepper, unpaginated and undated, George Roy Hill Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles.
5 Lindsey’s comments provoked the often impulsive Hill: Letter from William H. Honan, Arts and Leisure Editor, The New York Times, to H. H. Martin, Universal Pictures, dated June 18, 1976: “Regarding Robert Lindsey’s May 30th article … I think we’re perfectly in the clear on ‘Waldo.’ ” George Roy Hill Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles.
6 The sixteen-point addendum to his Waldo contract: Copy of contract, George Roy Hill Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles.
7 Goldman was offended that: Bernstein Interview with Bob Woodward, January 18, 2009.
8 In the weeks that followed, Redford and Pakula: Interview with Alan J. Pakula, April 9, 1996.
9 Redford felt he was focused: Interview with Sydney Pollack, September 1, 1995.
10 Hal Holbrook and others spoke of: Interview with Carol Rossen, December 29, 1998.
16. Out of Acting
1 “It was my first major conservation issue”: Robert Redford, “Duel for the West,” USA Weekend, November 3–5, 1995, an article summarizing Redford’s philosophy about the overdevelopment of the Utah wilderness. Also, a fifty-page paper, “Marketability of Coal from Andalex Resources’ Proposed Smoky Hollow Coal Mine,” prepared for Grand Canyon Trust by John Duffied and Chris Neher, Bioeconomics Inc., and Arnold Silverman, University of Montana, May 20, 1995, which includes current and historical trends in Utah coal production.
2 “It was as if some supernatural force”: Letter from Robert Redford to Dan Arensmeier, June 17, 1978. Sundance archive.
3 “Education was the answer”: “NRDC 1970–1990—Twenty Years Defending the Environment: A Report” (New York: NRDC, 1990); Colum F. Lynch, “Global Warning,” The Amicus Journal (a publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council), spring 1996; “25 Years of the Environment,” anniversary edition, winter 1996.
4 In Ford’s last days in office: Interview with Joyce Deep, September 16, 1995.
5 In 1978 he laid it out: Robert Redford, interview with Daniel Geery, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, January 30, 1978.
6 Diamond Fork Ranch, became the base: From 1974 approximately a hundred mares were bred and traded yearly. The breeding operation ceased in 1983, and the ranch was sold in 1996. Thereafter, the nearby Charleston Ranch was purchased for crop cultivation. It comprised thirty-one acres and cultivated black-tipped wheat, amaranth, sunflowers, sweet Annie, Indian corn, larkspur, Rocky Mountain penstemon, poppies, twelve varieties of grasses, thirty varieties of herbs, field greens, carrots, squash and onions. Much of the produce was used in the kitchens of the Sundance resort. Information: Sundance archive.
7 The American League for Industry and Vital Energy was quick: Southern Utah News, April 22, 1976.
8 “We’ve had three decades of lousy noisefests”: Interview with Joseph E. Levine conducted by Francis Feighan, circa September 1976.
9 Levine sweated like a workhorse: Ibid.
10 Goldman overcame the inherent dramatic weakness: William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade (New York: Warner, 1983), 282.
11 incited Mobil Oil to place: “Musings of an Oil Person,” The New York Times, May 11, 1978.
12 “Wildwood stationery lies fallow”: From “Redford Musings,” a notebook in the Sundance archive.