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7 The Sundance symposium foreshadowed: Interview with Bill Bradley, July 2, 1997.
8 The IRM’s demise became an issue of debate: Interview with Gary Beer, October 18, 1995.
20. Beyond Hurricane Country
1 “to discover life in film”: Elizabeth Ezra, ed., European Cinema (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 169.
2 According to anonymous sources interviewed: Peter Biskind, “Robert Redford and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Sundance Institute,” Premiere, February 1991. Aljean Harmetz, “Sundance Film Festival Veers from Mainstream,” The New York Times, January 17, 1991.
3 Though Jamie had effectively diagnosed himself: Interview with Jamie Redford, April 2, 1998.
4 The industry still functioned as an elite club: Ron Base and David Haslam, The Movies of the Eighties (London: Macdonald, 1990), 207.
5 “[Mike] Nichols believes you should do”: Letter from Manny Azenberg, date illegible. Sundance archive.
6 A major investigative feature: Biskind, “Robert Redford and the Unfulfilled Promise.”
7 Ovitz could find no studio backing: Interview with Jake Eberts, March 22, 1998.
8 Charlie responded with a clever memo: Letter from Charles Redford to Robert Redford, November 26, 1988, Sundance archive.
9 It was Parkes and Lasker who’d pitched: Interview with Phil Alden Robinson, conducted by Francis Feighan, January 1993.
10 “The billionaire in my novel”: Jack Engelhard interviewed by Greg Sheffield, NewsBuster.org, published online March 23, 2006.
21. Delivering the Moment
1 “When a population is distracted by trivia”: Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (London: William Heinemann, 1985), 161.
2 Retired prosecuting attorney Joseph Stone: New York Post, March 8, 1995.
3 During the first five years of Eisner’s reign: Ron Base and David Haslam, The Movies of the Eighties (London: Macdonald, 1990), 220.
4 According to Dunne in his memoir: John Gregory Dunne, Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (New York: Random House, 1997), 31–32.
5 After Ordinary People, Redford stated emphatically: Sue Clarke, “The Redford Conference,” Photoplay, August 1976.
22. The Edge
1 By the mid-nineties almost half of all householders: www.marketingcharts.com.
2 IFC was a sister channel: Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Cablevision, the current owners of the Sundance Channel (since May 2008), originally owned Bravo, as well as the Independent Film Channel. In 2002 Rainbow sold Bravo to NBC (now NBC Universal) for $1.25 billion. Rainbow Media Web site.
3 “They were liberal in the worst sense”: Peter Biskind, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 121.
4 By the mid-nineties, the institute: Interview with Michelle Satter, June 18, 1996.
5 He wrote an emotional eulogy: Time, November 21, 1998.
6 “Seriousness, as Leonard Cohen says”: Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen, BBC video documentary. Produced by Debbie Geller. Directed by John Archer (BBC Enterprises, 1988).
7 Sundance then suggested further truncation: Interview with Julie Mack, April 12, 1998.
8 Under Clinton, Republicans in Congress: HR 1745, proposing the protection of 1.8 million acres. The opposing green coalition’s proposed HR 1500 (protecting 5.7 million acres) was supported by Redford. League of Conservation Voters circular to the United States Senate, by Deb Callahan, President, March 13, 1996, regarding opposition to S 884, the Utah Public Lands Management Act, a precursor to HR 1745, Deseret News, September 29, 1995.
9 When President Clinton inaugurated a new national park: Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), 888; “President Protects Utah Lands,” USA Today, September 20, 1996.
23. The Actor in Transit
1 Lurie had a reputation as an outspoken leftist: Bernard Weinraub, “Press: Hollywood Still Directs Its Coverage,” The New York Times, June 1, 1992.
2 On the phone to Terry Lawson: Article by Terry Lawson in the Detroit Free Press, October 19, 2001.
3 Redford