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The BAM Racing team that offered Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign a potential sponsorship deal in the Sprint Cup series disclosed that the Illinois senator declined the opportunity. BAM team spokesman Rhett Vandiver said that Bill Burton, an Obama campaign spokesman told him there would be no sponsorship. “The Obama campaign will not be sponsoring a car in the Sprint Cup series,” said Burton. “Sponsorship would be interpreted as an endorsement of this mindless sport and its fans.” Burton called NASCAR a “significant source of air pollution” and labeled its fans “mostly ignorant rednecks who probably tote guns everywhere they...

IF BARACK Obama doesn't win November's presidential election in the United States, "you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye", the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night. Speaking at a public interview in Trinity College in advance of his conferral with an honorary degree by the university today, Redford said he hoped Obama would win because while John McCain "represents yesterday", the Democrat embodied the sort of change America needed. Asked by Michael Dwyer, film correspondent of The Irish Times, if he was looking forward to "regime change" in the US, Redford said: "Yes. Where...

If Barack Obama doesn't win November's presidential election in the United States, "you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye", the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night. Speaking at a public interview in Trinity College in advance of his conferral with an honorary degree by the university today, Redford said he hoped Obama would win because while John McCain "represents yesterday", the Democrat embodied the sort of change America needed. Asked by Michael Dwyer, film correspondent of The Irish Times , if he was looking forward to "regime change" in the US, Redford said: "Yes....

At Ron Burkle's mansion... ON A BALMY evening this week, the crowd at billionaire Ron Burkle's Beverly Hills estate was a mixture of high-level academia and high-level Hollywood, none higher than Robert Redford, actor, director, Sundance guru and the industry's über-environmental activist. Serious gatherings like this at Burkle's begin with a Champagne reception in the foyer, an intimately lavish space where presidents, generals, senators and Los Angeles' moneyed elite mingle and discuss the pressing issues of the day. (Half the town has portraits of themselves with former President Bill Clinton there.) When Redford entered the foyer from the inner sanctum...

This is a posting of a liberal bias warning. I just returned from a week of vacation in Myrtle Beach and went to the new IMAX 3D theater at Broadway at the Beach one day to see a film on the Grand Canyon. I thought I would be seeing a film show casing the 3D technology and images. What I got was a biased political screed from Robert Redford on the dangers on Anthropogenic Global Warming and the evil dangers of mankind to the planet. There was no balance and the whole program was about what we could do to...

As irrefutable evidence mounts that Nobel Laureate Al Gore's climate alarmism is about nothing other than lining his supposedly green pockets with green currency, manmade global warming skeptics around the world wonder when the former vice president's house of cards will collapse. Without question, if Gore were to lose the support of almost universally adoring Hollywoodans, the scam would implode quicker than a Democrat demanding a recount after losing a close election. As such, the following comments by actor and environmentalist Robert Redford, reported by the New Statesman last week, should bring hope to folks not buying the snake oil...

What this movie is going to be about is evident from the start because they telegraph it with a flare gun. We fade in to the latest casualty report from Iraq. It's bad news, the report and the movie, really a filmed polemic that gives new meaning to the term "talkie." Here Hollywood liberals showcase their incoherence and fondle their favorite incantation. In Lions for Lambs, the war on terror is nothing more than a replay of Vietnam. Ambitious, warmongering politicians are sending kids, especially blacks and latinos, to die in fields afar, victims of inept strategy and an overextended,...

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Dull Roar The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, utterly terrible war drama by Ella Taylor November 6th, 2007 1:14 PM Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made about American foreign policy—and it wasn't even written by Aaron Sorkin. Hot young screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan is fresh off his alpha-male script forThe Kingdom, which would explain the presence early on of that movie's director, Peter Berg, striding around Afghanistan in a buzz cut and stiff upper lip, barking bytes from Von Clausewitz and...

Robert Redford has defended Tom Cruise, insisting the Hollywood superstar's behaviour was perfectly normal on the set of their new movie. -SNIP-In an interview with Playboy magazine, Redford says: "Tom's a talented actor and I think people will respond positively to him (in Lions For Lambs)… "I didn't concern myself with the gossip - I never do - and I knew enough from what I've been through to judge the man based on what I experience firsthand. And I didn't see any behaviour on the film that troubled me. Really."

ROBERT REDFORD walks into the “Lions for Lambs” offices here drenched from a run in the late-morning furnace of August in the Napa Valley. It’s good preparation; he’s likely to face plenty of heat this fall. He’s putting the finishing touches on his most political movie since “All the President’s Men,” and he’s bracing for a backlash. As if to fire himself up for battle Mr. Redford has tacked op-ed columns blasting the Bush administration to a bulletin board in the rented house he turned into a postproduction complex. “A profile in cowardice,” reads one headline. “This time, don’t say...

Grand Junction Mayor Jim Doody ... is one of 40 mayors in the country who will gather in Utah for four days beginning Sunday to learn the latest information on global warming — and what cities can do to address it. The third-annual Sundance Summit is co-hosted by actor Robert Redford’s environmental nonprofit organization, Sundance Preserve, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. “For me, personally, (it is about) being an elected official trying to balance all the growth we have here, all the great resources we have here,” Doody said. “At the...

Hollywood legend Robert Redford has called on US leaders to apologise for the war in Iraq.The actor was speaking at the start of the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where the opening movie recalled protests over the Vietnam war in 1968. Redford said he, like many others, had shown a "spirit of unity" with the US government after 11 September 2001. "We put all our concerns on hold to let the leaders lead," he said. "I think we're owed a big, massive apology." The actor, whose Sundance Institute for independent film runs the annual festival, usually steers clear of political...

SACRAMENTO - Robert Redford has added a celebrity touch to those urging California voters to reject a sweeping eminent domain initiative. In an e-mail sent this week to more than 172,000 members of the Natural Resources Defense Council and made public Tuesday, Redford described the eminent domain proposition as "the single most dangerous threat that has ever been leveled at our state's environment." Put on the November ballot by property rights activists, Proposition 90 would amend the state Constitution to make it harder and more costly for governments to condemn property or pass regulations that affect land values. "Anytime our...

WASHINGTON (June 12, 2006) -- The Sundance Kid gathered up the nerve to jump off a cliff with Butch Cassidy. Now, he wants Democrats to show similar backbone. "Democrats need to regain the courage that's lost with political compromises over the last few years," actor and environmental activist Robert Redford said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. "They've got to get it together. If they don't, it will not only be a tragedy for them, but a tragedy for the country." The Oscar-winning director was in Washington to discuss energy policy with the liberal group Campaign for America's...

Here’s where the film’s big fun really begins. We pan to the Che: he is standing behind a prisoner; the prisoner is on his knees, his head bent forward; the Che is holding a .45 caliber handgun and has it pointed at the back of the prisoner’s head; he pulls the trigger; we hear the explosion of the round leaving the handgun and the prisoner lurches forward and falls, crumpled onto the ground.

WASHINGTON - The stars — "Sundance Kid" Robert Redford, pop diva Tina Turner and crooner Tony Bennett, among them — were coming out early to be honored at the White House for a lifetime of achievement. Members of the 28th annual class of Kennedy Center honorees were being singled out at a reception Sunday afternoon by the president and first lady for their contributions to the arts and culture. Artists from around the world were to join President Bush and Laura Bush in an evening ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The honorees are: _Turner,...

Robert Redford played "Washington Post" reporter Bob Woodward in "All the President’s Men." He also produced that film, which included various scenes of Robert Redford as Bob Woodward meeting his source in secluded locations. With the unraveling of the Deep Throat mystery Tuesday, Robert Redford sat down with Chris Matthews to share his experiences making the movie, working with Woodward and Bernstein, and the mystery of Deep Throat. I was attracted to the story, because I think that’s the basis of any good entertainment, starting with a good story. It was 1972 that I actually got involved with it. At...

Robert Redford and George Soros surely make one of the oddest couples in American pop culture. For most of us, Redford’s all-American good looks evoke images of the dashing outlaw Harry Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid. By contrast, Soros’ gaunt visage, thousand-yard stare, thick Central European accent, levitating gray hair and megalomaniacal pronouncements weirdly echo those of the “Dr. Strangelove” character in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War classic. The differences between these two men are only skin deep, however. Both owe allegiance to the far left. And both work quietly, in a sinister partnership, to flood U.S. media...

Come listen to a story 'bout a man named Redford, a poor movie star barely kept his family fed (lord!) and then one day he was filming in the nuuuuude!, when the election results from the masses turned rude. Foiled again, black-souled, Texas T...KO'd Well, the first thing ya know he's called the millionaires, said I'm off to Ireland, got to get away from here, he said California's just not the place to beeeeeee.... so he loaded up his chums and they moved from Beverly. Hills, that is, No more swimmin' pools...no more movie stars. And their tickets called for...

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Democrats are in a snit over a conservative-leaning broadcast group's plan to air a documentary critical of John Kerry just before the election.... [The DNC] filed a complaint with the [FEC], arguing that Sinclair is violating the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law by giving a valuable "in-kind" contribution to the Bush campaign. Kerry adviser Chad Clanton even threatened to abuse the power of the Federal Communications Commission if Kerry is elected, warning that Sinclair "better hope we don't win." ...After all, many news groups surely would fail such a test, their news coverage rendered no more than "in-kind" contributions to their favored...

Remember this? --> Democrats file formal complaint over anti-Kerry film Well heck, boys and girls, lookie here... I guess it's hunky dory with the DNC that Robert Redford's Sundance Channel airs all this ... beyond Franken...check the dates! Directly from the Sundance Channel program guide schedule.FORD TRANSIT Documentary Filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad provides a rare chance to listen to conversations among West Bank Palestinians as they take a ride in a Ford mini-van shuttling between Ramallah and Jerusalem. Their driver is Rajai Khatib, a charismatic rebel adept at negotiating - and sometimes avoiding - the many roadblocks and checkpoints that make...

Las Vegas - The Bush administration is "intentionally blind" to the needs of the environment and has rolled back years of advances in improving air and water quality, actor and activist Robert Redford said on Wednesday. "Sadly, the erosion that's occurred is disastrous, frightening and dangerous," Redford said. Speaking at an event sponsored by the Environmental Accountability Fund, a political action committee, Redford said he is insulted when President George W Bush and vice-president Dick Cheney tout their status as Westerners. "I take particular offence as a Westerner when I see all the swagger and all the strutting. .... And...

(CBS/AP) With just over three weeks until the first Bush-Kerry debate (domestic policy, Sept. 30), former President Carter has revealed he had help acting like a candidate from an actor who played a candidate. Actor and filmmaker Robert Redford played videotapes of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate "over and over" to coach Jimmy Carter before his debates with former President Gerald Ford. Redford played California Democratic senate hopeful Bill McKay in the 1972 film "The Candidate," which won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. "I was probably president because of Bob Redford," said Mr. Carter, who confided that before the...

Dear Friend, It is understandable that we Americans feel an almost reflexive need for unanimity in trying times like these. As a nation, we are rightly consumed with responding to the terrorist attacks on September 11th. But, at some point -- and I think we're beginning to get there -- we need to take a long-term view even as we are reacting to the current crisis. Really important domestic issues facing us before all of this happened -- education, energy and the environment, health care -- still have the same dimension and consequence. But we have to recognize that ...

Utah's Sundance Kid has joined more than 100 notable Americans in a campaign to celebrate the nation's wild treasures. Robert Redford on Wednesday helped launch "Americans for Wilderness," a group commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Preservation Act. The Oscar-winning director and actor said the act -- which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law Sept. 3, 1964 -- was a bipartisan effort to recognize that some places "are so powerful we use them to identify the best of ourselves." To date, more than 105 million acres of public lands, mostly within national forests, have been set aside as...

<p>Kevin Kelley only has to drive a few blocks east from his office in the Redford Township hall to see the worst case scenario for the future of his community.</p> <p>The township’s north end borders Detroit’s Brightmoor area. The city’s renaissance hasn’t reached Brightmoor yet, and may never. Its streets are marked with the rubble of collapsed and burned-out homes, shuttered businesses and a general scene of devastation that makes Baghdad look inviting.</p>

Redford: Tyranny's useful idiot Posted: January 29, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Cuban dictator Fidel Castro wooed Robert Redford in Havana this week. It was hardly necessary. Redford has been doing Castro's bidding for years without being seduced by the tyrant of the Caribbean. "He came to me," Redford told Reuters. "He seemed to be in good health, good humor, good spirit." Castro wanted to congratulate Redford on his new film, "The Motorcycle Diaries," lionizing his old comrade-in-arms, Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Che Guevara. "I came to present the film that I produced on Che Guevara and I am very...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Robert Redford (news) showed his new film about Che Guevara, "The Motorcycle Diaries," to the widow and children of the legendary guerrilla fighter on Sunday. "I came to present the film that I produced on Che Guevara and I am very happy to be in Cuba," Redford told Reuters before the private screening at Havana's Charles Chaplin cinema theater. He watched the film with Guevara's widow Aleida, daughter Aleidita and son Camilo, as well as Ramiro Valdes, a top military commander in Cuba's communist government who fought with Guevara and Fidel Castro (news - web sites) in...

'Down and Dirty' sums up life with Miramax chief If you are even a casual reader of glossy magazines or gossip pages, you probably don't need Peter Biskind to tell you that Harvey Weinstein, the co-chairman of Miramax Films, is an outsize character -- a big guy with big appetites and a temper to match. Weinstein But Biskind's absurdly entertaining new book, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Simon & Schuster, $26.95), is here to tell you that you don't know the half of it. Biskind compares Weinstein to Nixon, Mussolini, an undercooked pancake,...

For the most part, Hollywood is bone-deep liberal. And the Sundance Film Festival -- all indie motivations aside -- is, essentially, a mountaintop suburb of Hollywood. What better ground for Democrats to work for campaign money and recruits than Sundance? And no more opportune time to stir hearts than a presidential election year when the incumbent is President Bush. With that thinking in mind, the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean supporters and organizers of MoveOn.org have scheduled screenings and fund-raisers in Park City next week. To top it off, former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, are expected...

<p>SANTA MONICA -- In the Robert Redford Building, toilets flush themselves with rainwater -- except for the urinals, which use no water at all -- the floors are made of bamboo and the carpets from hemp.</p> <p>All of which help make it, the actor said during a dedication ceremony in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica on Thursday, one of the "greenest" buildings in America and a glimpse into the environmentally friendly future.</p>

There isn't much in the way of commercial space available on Sundance Channel. The seven-year-old digital tier network runs its independent movies and original series and documentaries in an ad-free environment. But it's a different story off channel. Actor Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah has always had corporate sponsors who support the work of independent filmmaking in general and the annual film festival in Utah. Now Sundance will lend its name and expertise to a film festival that will run between August and October at Loews Theatres in 10 cities. The films include two American independent films as well...

Tuesday, 21 January, 2003, 10:10 GMTRedford speaks out against war Redford says freedom of speech should be protected Screen icon Robert Redford has spoken out against a possible invasion of Iraq, calling on independent filmmakers to help prevent what he called the erosion of freedom of speech. Speaking at the Sundance Film Festival, which he founded, he said the White House had "some explaining to do" to the American people before embarking on a war. Warning that there were "threats around the edges" of United States freedom of expression, Redford said independent movies could help keep alternative artistic and political...

From: Robert Redford Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 19:00:52 -0800 (PST) Subject: A message from Robert Redford on threats to our environment Dear Fellow BioGems Defender, Americans voted for many things this past Election Day, but one thing we did not vote for was a sweeping attack on our environment. Yet President Bush is already acting as if we did. If you don't have time to read my letter, then please go straight to the BioGems website at http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp and send messages to your U.S. senators and representatives telling them to stand up in defense of our environment. Barely two...

Poll: Robert Redford – limousine riding, private jet setting, environment busting wilderness resort owner – says Bush is wrong on oil, mid-east. Do you agree with Robert Redford? - Yes. US oil consumption is to blame for homeland insecurity. Bush is not showing bold leadership on oil policy. 52% - No. U.S. lifestyle is not the cause of terrorism. If it was, Redford’s resorts, private jets and limousines are to blame. 48% Poll Link Here

<p>Wayne County's two top elected officials and rumored bitter enemies, Sheriff Bob Ficano and Executive Ed McNamara, came eyeball to eyeball in a neutral arena Friday morning and neither blinked. Instead, they winked, shook hands and promised to work to get fellow Democrat Kevin Kelley elected to Congress.</p>

Return to Pretendland by Kevin McCullough I always believe it's good for any American to speak out on things they passionately care about. The more that Pretendlanders speak, however, the more simplistic and shallow they reveal their thinking processes to be.