Martini Shot
Two Hander
Why do TV shows have dumpy guys married to beautiful wives, and movies have really old dudes married to young women, but it's never the other way around? Rob senses a marketing opportunity.
Robert Redford, the seventy-nine year old movie star, has been a famous person since the mid 1960's, and, his face is still handsome, but let's face it: it's lined with age and sun damage, the result of years spent under the hot lights of super-stardom and the relentless sunshine of the American west. In his current film, A Walk in the Woods, in which he stars with another actor who has, as we say in Hollywood, some "serious road on his face," Nick Nolte, the two make a terrifically funny and fitting pair. Nick Nolte is seventy-four, so they're age-appropriate companions...