I was sitting at a table at a studio commissary many years ago and suddenly felt things shift. The room, which had been buzzing and humming with the usual lunchtime energy, felt somehow different.

Robert Redford’s death marks the end of the Hollywood phenomenon of the movie star. A star is different from an actor. Stars always play themselves, while actors play characters. In an earlier day, ...

I was saddened to learn last week of the death of the Sundance Kid. I’ve always thought of Robert Redford as Sundance because he wasn’t really Robert Redford until he played the Sundance Kid against ...