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),…
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In 2014, I traveled from Los Angeles to New York to meet Robert Redford for the first and only time. Even as an experienced and somewhat jaded journalist, I was nervous. Not because of Redford’s iconic stature, which was beyond doubt; and not because I’d grown up deeply affected by such films as Butch Cassidy…
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Richard PriceWest Midlands UK Parliament Antonia Bance is the Labour MP for Tipton and Wednesbury and a member of The Business and Trade Committee About 30,000 people are employed directly by JLR, with a further 200,000 working in the firm’s supply chain. Antonia Bance – Labour MP for Tipton and Wednesbury and also a member…
