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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 the 2008 edition of the Sundance Film Festival got under way, fest poobah Robert Redford warned audiences not to expect too many films that directly engaged the significant issues of the day, because filmmakers were reacting to dire world problems to a great extent with "levity" instead. From the blurbs in the festival catalogue, it hadn't appeared that comedy looked to be a major item from American indies this year. But after the first weekend, it dawned on me that perhaps Redford had meant a very different sort of levity. It seemed that nearly every film I saw featured...

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...

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...

The homicide terror bomb used in an assassination attempt on former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last month may have been strapped to a 1-year-old child who was being carried by his jihadist father, The Australian newspaper reported Thursday. The bomb, which killed 170 people and injured hundreds more, detonated during a crowded procession for Bhutto as she returned from exile. Investigators from Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party said the homicide bomber tried repeatedly to carry the baby to Bhutto's vehicle as it proceeded through the streets of Karachi. "At the point where the bombs exploded, Benazir Bhutto herself saw the...

Liars for Lambs   By Debbie SchlusselDebbieSchlussel.com | Monday, November 12, 2007 Benjamin Disraeli--and later Mark Twain--said there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. But today, there are lies, damn lies, and anti-war movies.The latest didactic, silver screen mythology emanating from Hollywood is "Lions for Lambs," starring (and directed by) Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, and Meryl Streep, and in theaters now. The film's rewriting of history and Middle Eastern religious dynamics is disturbing. And its statements about our military and alleged racism are unconscionable. As Americans get more and more of their "history" from on-screen fiction, the fairy tales...

On the heels of reports that the Robert Redford leftwing movie, Lions For Lambs, was a big box office bomb comes a report that the co-stars of the film can't stand Tom Cruise to the extent that they skipped a tribute dinner to the star of the South Park Trapped in the Closet EPISODE. Could this hostility to Cruise by Redford and Meryl Streep stem from the fact that this flick was widely panned by movie reviewers (except for the Sacramento Bee) as chronicled in a recent EDITION of the DUmmie FUnnies? Possibly. However, I think the more likely...

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...

Yes, another in a long line of leftwing propaganda movies attacking the EVIL Bush Regime has come out. And it is also another FLOP as you can see in these scathing reviews of "Lions For Lambs" over at ROTTEN TOMATOES. Watching the trailer below, I don't know what creeped me out more: Robert Redford's scary face or the idea of Tom Cruise as a U.S. Senator. So let us now watch the scorching reviews of this tedious propaganda flick in Rotten Tomato Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting this flick went in like a Lion and...

LOS ANGELES - The wave of recent films set against the backdrop of war in Iraq and post-9/11 security has failed to win over film-goers keen to escape grim news headlines when they go to the movies, analysts say. In a break with past convention, when films based on real conflicts were made only years after the last shots were fired, several politically-charged films have gone on release while America remains embroiled in Iraq. Almost without exception, however, the crop of movies have struggled to turn a profit at the box-office and in many cases have received a mauling from...

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...

" At an age when most children might be preparing for their first day of school, Srey, 6, already has undergone trauma that is almost unspeakable. She was sold to a brothel by her parents when she was 5. It is not known how much her family got for Srey, but other girls talk of being sold for $100; one was sold for $10." "Srey is HIV-positive, she said." "Srey was rescued from the life of a sex slave by Somaly Mam, a former prostitute who runs shelters for the victims of Cambodia's sex trade. Somaly has rescued 53 children,...

Culture: Hollywood hipsters are at it again, waxing artsy about "sensitive" child-rape cinema and "tasteful" self-realization through horse sex. From that very low place, they still have the gall to scold Middle America. Movie idol Robert Redford presented some of the most decadent movies at his chic Sundance Film Festival in Utah this week. He, of course, defended them as art. Among Redford's choice morsels are "Hounddog," whose five-minute depiction of the rape of a 12-year-old is likely to titillate every child molester from Phnom Penh to Hamburg. Another, called "Zoo," is a supposedly "tasteful" depiction of bestiality, where the...

HARTFORD -- Republicans in the state legislature are advocating tougher punishment for child molesters. Republicans want longer minimum sentences for convictions for sexually assaulting children or using the Internet to try to entice children into having sex. Senate Republicans on Wednesday urged majority Democrats to support the legislation. A spokesman said Gov. M. Jodi Rell also supports it. One of the GOP bills mirrors a Florida law prompted by the rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by a convicted sex offender two years ago. Twenty-one other states have followed Florida's example, Senate Republicans said. "God forbid we have to...

John Gibson and Danny Bonaduce Slam Alec Baldwin and Robert Redford Posted by Noel Sheppard on January 20, 2007 - 10:57. NewsBusters fans are certainly aware that former Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce is a highly outspoken conservative that doesn’t mince words as reported here and here. On Friday, Bonaduce was John Gibson’s guest on Fox News’s “Your World,” and the pair took issue with the following statements recently made by Robert Redford (video available here courtesy of our friend at Ms Underestimated): ROBERT REDFORD, ACTOR/DIRECTOR: In light of what's happened in the last six years, political diversity has been...

QUID PRO COAL2: CLINTON CORRUPTION + THE SEQUESTRATION OF GASEOUS FOSSILS(HILLARY DOES COAL AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB) by Mia T, 4.27.06 But we have to deal with coal, because we have huge resources of coal. Coal is to us what oil is to Saudi Arabia. And part of our domestic strategy must involve coal. But unless we learn to burn it cleanly, the price of independence from imported oil by using coal will be accelerated global warming. Even if the United States never burned another lump of coal, China is bringing on-line a 1,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant...

<p>Robert Redford says he has made plenty of sacrifices — including occasionally stalling his film career — to ensure that the Sundance Film Festival would survive and thrive. But, he adds, "it was all worth it."</p> <p>The 68-year-old actor, filmmaker and environmental activist said his 45-year show-business career has suffered a bit here and there, but these days he has enough trust in the festival's leadership that he can relax his grasp on the event and begin to, in his words, "breathe again."</p>

Al Gore's new television network, Current TV, is turning to Sean Penn, Robert Redford and others to give advice to fledgling filmmakers. Current TV has been operating since August. The bulk of its programming is short films by young documentarians. Current says it wants contributions from audience members along with material it solicits. To help would-be contributors, the network has just produced a "survival guide" that it is making available online that includes advice on journalism and storytelling from Redford and Penn, along with academics, authors and filmmakers. "We, and by we I mean everyone from a Hollywood director like...

Thanks to the adoring press, Robert Redford recently got to remind the world that he's not a reporter but played one in a film. Redford, of course, was in the flick "All the President's Men," which co-starred Dustin Hoffman. While receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Czech Film Festival, the Sundance CEO remarked: "There are deep similarities going on, but where is the press? Where is the press?" The actor was chiding the news media for not pursuing a sequel to the investigation of Richard Nixon by launching a probe of President George W. Bush. "There are strong similarities...

The old news: PBS is still a liberal monstrosity transforming the hard-earned dollars of many Bush-loving taxpayers into fire-breathing Bush-loathing programming. The new development: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has plans to get serious about seeking a better balance of political views on PBS. From the sound of a New York Times front-page story May 2, they must have been waving smelling salts in the face of liberal reporters. Kenneth Tomlinson, the "Republican chairman" of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was said to be pressing aggressively to correct "what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias." The Times approach, pretending...

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...

.Redford and SundanceGovindini MurtyFriday, Feb. 4, 2005Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival wrapped up this past Saturday with an orgy of nihilism – otherwise known as its awards banquet. The winning films glorified the usual assortment of left wing, anti-American, sexually bizarre themes. The Grand Jury Prize for American Documentary went to Eugene Jarecki's "Why We Fight," a film that claims U.S. foreign policy since World War II has been formed not by the need for self-defense, but by an out-of-control military-industrial complex's desire for profit. The content of this film is a far cry from the original "Why We Fight,"...

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - "Inside Deep Throat," a documentary that premiered this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, examines the legacy of the 1972 flick, a forerunner of today's hardcore adult-entertainment industry and a touchstone for obscenity laws. "Deep Throat" was shot for $25,000 in just six days. Its male star was a film-crew member shoved in front of the camera as a last-minute replacement. Its director readily conceded it was not even a good movie. Yet it was a cultural phenomenon whose theatrical grosses are estimated at $600 million, and it became an emblem of decadence for anti-pornography...

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival kicked off on Thursday with a political tone struck by founder Robert Redford, who called independent film a voice of dissent and encouraged movie-makers to speak their minds. The curtain rose at the premier U.S. gathering for independent movies on the same day President Bush was inaugurated for his second term, which was not lost on Redford, the Oscar winning actor and director of movies like "The Sting" and "Ordinary People." Redford told a packed house at Sundance's opening-night premier of the tolerance-themed comedy "Happy Endings" that a goal of the...

Comanche blogger David Yeagley is going on the warpath. His quarry: Robert Redford. His goal: To punish what he calls leftwing hypocrisy. High schools, colleges and professional sports teams face harassment and lawsuits every day for using Indian names and images. Yet no one objects to Hollywood leftist Robert Redford naming his Sundance Institute after a Lakota Sioux ritual. Why the "free pass," asks Yeagley? "I protest... the outlandish hypocrisy of the Leftist Indians, who would crush some innocent school for using `Warrior' on its school jersey, yet not breathe a word of protest against Robert Redford's use of `Sundance'...

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Hollywood celebrities who threatened to flee the country if George W. Bush was re-elected should do the noble thing and follow through on their threats. Robert Redford can pout just as prettily in Ireland as he can in Hollywood. The aging heartthrob will find himself right at home in the poetic land that St. Patrick rid of snakes. Besides, Senator John Kerry had loads of supporters there, some of whom weighed in on the eve of election to state why they believed that Bush would likely be re-elected. . . . . To read the entire Canada Free Press newspapers...

We are FReeping the Salazar campaign rally in Fort Collins, Colorado. Saturday. Any one out there have the low down on Robert Redford? We already have plenty of dirt on Ken Salazar.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- At first glimpse, Gael Garcia Bernal's boyish looks don't bring revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara to mind: no goatee, no military beret, no fatigues. That's a good thing, however, as the 26-year-old rising Mexican star redefines the leftist revolutionary for the big screen. The Motorcycle Diaries, a Robert Redford-produced accounting of Che's youthful escapades across South America, opened Thursday in Guevara's native Argentina and is coming in September to American audiences. It has screened in Cuba to enthusiastic audiences. Garcia Bernal, who previously starred as Julio in Y Tu Mama Tambien, has a seemingly impossible task:...

Just as we predicted, Robert Redford had his sitdown yesterday with Fidel Castro. "He came to me," the actor said in Havana. "He seemed in good health, good humor, good spirit. Castro stopped by the Hotel Nacional to talk about "The Motorcycle Diaries," the movie Redford produced about Che Guevera's nine-month bike trip through South America as a 23-year-old medical student. He also showed it to Che's widow, Aleida March, who said the movie was "excellent."

When Robert Redford went to Cuba in 1988, he was interrogated by U.S. Treasury Dept. agents upon his return. After all, he was said to have gone scuba-diving with Fidel Castro. Now the actor is set to fly to Havana on Friday, after his Sundance Film Festival ends, to show his new movie, "The Motorcycle Diaries," to Che Guevara's widow, Aleida March. Redford is an executive producer of Walter Salles' film about Che's consciousness-raising nine-month motorcycle trip through South America as a 23-year-old medical student. The pic got a standing ovation Saturday at a fest screening in Park City, Utah....

The Hunting of the President U.S.A., 2003, 89 Minutes, color Director: Harry Thomason, Nickolas Perry Screenwriters - Harry Thomason, Nickolas Perry, based on the book by Gene Lyons, Joe Conason Producer - Douglas Jackson Coproducers - Chad O'Connor, Amy Greenspun, Keith Sky Cinematographer - James Robertson Music - Bruce Miller Associate Producers - Ben Harrell, Dana Stoltzner   Friday, Jan 23 5:30 PM Prospector Square Theatre     There can be no doubt that we live in one of the most tumultuous political climates of the nation's history, a climate where politicians can be toppled on a whim, election results...

Opponents mock North Woods plan "Take this park and shove it,To New Hampshire or Vermont, It's our state and we love it, And we know what we don't want, We want to hunt, and camp, and fish, The way we've always done, And it is our undying wish, To keep the G-man on the run." - Matthew Heintz TOWNSHIP 1 RANGE 9 - Ted Danson didn't show. Neither did Robert Redford, Meryl Streep or Walter Cronkite. But nearly 300 people from all over the state gathered at the Big Moose Inn - on Millinocket Lake inside the proposed Maine Woods...

LOS ANGELES, Feb 19 (AFP) - Hollywood stars Wednesday opened a new front in their battle to derail US plans for a war with Iraq, unveiling plans to flood the White House and lawmakers with antiwar phone calls, e-mails and faxes. A group of stars led by Martin Sheen -- who plays the US president on the television show "The West Wing" -- and actresses Anjelica Huston and Janeane Garofalo said they would stage a "virtual march" Monday on Washington. "Our message to Washington will be clear -- 'Don't invade Iraq!' We can contain Saddam Hussein without killing innocent...

Anyone who has submitted themselves to the agony of watching the US Security Council debate has surely concluded the UN is not only incapable of fulfilling its primary mission to avert wars, but is criminally negligent. UN supporters have accused their opponents of over-stating the case about the threat it poses to national sovereignty, the right of ours and other nations to self-governance. They dismiss documents like the Charter for Global Democracy as merely a "wish list" of private organizations that do not reflect the true UN agenda. If, however, one accepts UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as the official...

NEW YORK -- Actor Christopher Reeve knows how to get to fellow celebrities. As consultant to the upcoming PBS series Freedom, he wanted well-known actors to provide voices for characters from American history. But if he went through managers, publicists or agents, Reeve knew he'd get some brush-offs. So he wrote to the celebrities themselves. He assembled an impressive list: Jennifer Aniston, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams and many others. Reeve, 50, wanted to participate because his half brother, a teacher in rural Vermont, had such trouble...

<p>SACRAMENTO (AP) - Some of the biggest stars in Hollywood are urging Gov. Gray Davis to sign a bill that would help farmworkers get union contracts by allowing binding arbitration of farm labor disputes.</p> <p>"Workers at 428 farming operations have selected the United Farm Workers as their collective bargaining agent. Unfortunately, out of those 428 growers, only 185 have chosen to sign contracts with the union," the celebrities said in an "open letter" to Davis.</p>

     Cheryl Hatch The Associated Press   Jeff Foster, at his Auburn home recently, explains the considerations for transporting the orphan orca A-73, or 'Springer,' back to her native Canadian waters.     'Whale whisperer' key to rescue of orphan orcaThe Associated PressThe orphan orca from Canada who strayed into busy Puget Sound last winter charmed locals for months, splashing and playing off the Vashon Island ferry dock. But beneath the playful exterior lay concerns about the whale's health and her future. And when experts decided to capture her, nurse her back to health and release her to...