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Article: The Horse Whisperer.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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###JOHN SIMON
TWO great stars, two heart-throbs, are coming out simultaneously with what may be their most ambitious projects: Warren Beatty with Bulworth and Robert Red- ford with The Horse Whisperer. Neither movie strikes me as very good, but the latter is at least inoffensive.
The parallels are noteworthy. At 61, both men are entering the last decade in which one can normally be a heart-throb. Both men are trying to convey ideas with their movies, to make more than entertainment -- perhaps even art. And both have profiles running concurrently in important publications: Beatty in The New York Times Magazine, Redford in The New Yorker. One is dark and still ...