Robert Redford was not your garden-variety celebrity. Even though his name was virtually synonymous with Hollywood glamour, and despite starring in a slew of popular hits like Inside Daisy Clover (1965), This Property Is Condemned (1966), The Chase (1966) and Barefoot in the Park (1967), capped off by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), he saw himself as an outsider. It seemed like he could do no wrong, but he was uneasy with the star system, saying, “They throw that word ‘star’ at you loosely, and they take it away loosely if your pictures flop. You take responsibility for their crappy movie, that’s all it means.”
As a rising star, Redford was itching to take control of his own career. “Since you say I’m responsible if my name is above the title, then give me the responsibility,” he declared. The responsibility seized him, so to speak, in July 1972, while he was promoting…
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