Robert Redford - Michael Feeney Callan [257]
17. Painted Frames
1 even dictionaries listed him under words: The online New Oxford American Dictionary defines “idol” as “an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship; a person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered: movie idol Robert Redford.”
2 Later Steve Bernhardt, Redford’s old friend: Interview with Steve Bernhardt, July 2, 1997.
3 At one point, Rayfiel sent: Among notes appended to the script for The Electric Horseman, in Sydney Pollack’s script library at Mirage Productions, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles.
4 “The present version is too encumbered”: Note on discarded script draft of The Electric Horseman in Sydney Pollack’s script files at Mirage Productions, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles.
5 “When I was a kid”: Handwritten notes by Sydney Pollack, appended to the script of The Electric Horseman in Sydney Pollack’s script files at Mirage Productions, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles.
6 Never missing a marketing moment: Ray Stark interview with Sydney Pollack, September 1, 1995.
7 Redford had been prompted by author-activist Peter Matthiessen: Premiere, April 1992, 29.
8 Murton’s story was every bit as sinister: Thomas O. Murton and Joe Hyams, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal (New York: Grove Press, 1969).
9 Rafelson admitted to having made Head: Interview with Stephen Farber, The New York Times, Arts section, February 16, 1997.
10 “I liked that complete disrespect”: Interview with Bob Rafelson, online at www.filmfestivals.com/cannes98/starsus7.htm.
11 In widely reported accounts, Rafelson decked a senior Fox executive: Interview with Stuart Rosenberg, June 7, 2000.
12 On a bright winter’s afternoon, Stan and Mary Alice Collins: Interview with Stan Collins, June 1, 1996.
13 Eisner, according to his autobiography: Michael Eisner, Work in Progress: Risking Failure, Surviving Success (New York: Hyperion, 1999), 94–95, 102.
14 Moore heard nothing for a month: Interview with Mary Tyler Moore, September 21, 1996.
15 “Bob understood everything”: Ivan Butler, interview with Tim Hutton, Films and Filming 331 (April 1982).
16 To Donald Sutherland, such “mean-ass economy”: Interview with Donald Sutherland, conducted by Francis Feighan, August 1981.
17 Moore, battling the ravages of incipient alcoholism: Interview with Mary Tyler Moore, September 26, 1996.
18 “I just didn’t think I was going to see this, but I’m no less grateful”: Text of Robert Redford’s Academy Award acceptance speech from March 31, 1981, transcribed in Red Book, a fanzine published by Trudy Hoffman, June 1981.
19 In The Soul’s Code, Hillman implies: James Hillman, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling (New York: Warner, 1997).
18. Sundance
1 Michelle Satter, introduced to Redford: Interview with Michelle Satter, June 19, 1996.
2 The first Sundance Institute lab took place: Sundance Institute literature, including “Sundance June 1982 Program,” with an introduction by Redford and Frank Daniel and a full listing of advisers and sponsors (board of trustees: Redford, Robert “Reg” Gipson, Saul Bass, Marjorie Benton, Ian Calderon, Ian Cumming, Frank Daniel, Moctesuma Esparza, Robert Geller, Dr. Robert Gray, Alan Jacobs, Howard Klein, Karl Malden, Mary McFadden, John McMillian, Mike Medavoy, Victor Nunez, Wayne Owens, Sydney Pollack, Annick Smith, Anthony Thomopoulos, Claire Townsend, Robert Townsend and George White); also “Sundance Institute Filmmakers and Screenwriters Laboratory, May 29–June 27, 1996,” with an introduction by Redford and a full listing of advisers and sponsors (board of trustees: Redford, Gary Beer, Glenn Close, Jake Eberts, Ted Field, Carlos Fuentes, Robert E. Gipson, George Gund, Steven Haft, Michael Kuhn, Pat Mitchell, Michael Ovitz, Sydney Pollack, Tom Rothman, Bradford Smith, Brandon Tartikoff, Denzel Washington, Alonzo Watson Jr., Richard Weinberg, Walter Weisman, James Wiatt, Hume Cronyn [emeritus], Irene Diamond [emeritus], George White [emeritus], Sundance archive.
The selection process for the first lab was by invitation from the first set of