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This is a pretty good "perspective" piece on Robert Redford, who was one of those ultra-famous Hollywood guys who somehow also managed to just do whatever it was he personally wanted to, hashtag goals: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/nx-s1-5543165/remembering-robert-redford-in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera

#Sneakers remains one of the greatest things ever done. Also, before my type-design career, my first master's degree involved researching wild-west reenactors, & I highly recommend "Butch Cassidy: A Biography" by Richard Patterson, ISBN 978-0803287563 #strangerthanfiction

Sep 18, 2025 at 5:15pmWeb
Show thread    n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦Sep 18, 2025

(more detail on that last bit: although the movie version of Butch and Sundance is rightly remembered as awesome, the real-life, unvarnished events are possibly even better, if less concise. Like, I challenge anyone to read a biography of Butch and *not* think "man we oughta make a movie out of this...."

If you need an immediate fix, there was also a 10-part docuseries called "The Gunfighters" that had an episode on them, c. 2004; it's probably streaming somewhere. Narrated by Brian Dennehy.)