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Article: LAST HURRAH FOR THE SUNDANCE KID; Robert Redford was the world's favourite actor in the mid-Seventies - now he's directing himself for the first time in an adaptation of the best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer. GRAHAM YOUNG reports.
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
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- August 22, 1998
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CLINT Eastwood has been doing it as a matter of course for years, Barbra Streisand prefers it, and it seems to be second nature to Kenneth Branagh, who even dared to launch his silver screen acting career in Henry V... directing himself.
Now, at the grand old age of 61, Robert Redford has decided with his new movie The Horse Whisperer, that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
And with the film set to be released in Midland cinemas next Friday, the verdict of the man who was born at the tail end of the Great Depression to a milkman father and homemaker mother ...