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Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival.

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With franchises in the rear view, young Hollywood stars strike out on own at Cannes

Vampires, Transformers, singing high-schoolers: They can all be tough to outrun.

But at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival, a number of young Hollywood stars are attempting to do just that. By striking out on their own, they hope to move their careers beyond mega franchises and toward more mature roles in bolder films.Robert Pattinson ("Twilight"), Kristen Stewart (also "Twilight"), Shia LaBeouf ("Transformers," ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull") and Zac Efron ("High School Musical") all have films in competition at the French Riviera festival.In David Cronenberg's Don DeLillo adaptation "Cosmopolis," which is to premiere at Cannes on Friday, Pattinson stars as a Manhattan billionaire on a crosstown odyssey."It's changed the way I see myself," Pattinson said in an interview ahead of his festival arrival."I'm kind of getting older," the 26-year-old actor says. "People aren't thinking of me as a kid anymore, so I've got to stop behaving like one."With the next "Twili...

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  1. Robert Redford came out swinging for the ‘99...

    Robert Redford came out swinging for the ‘99 percenters’ when he opened his 34th annual Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, but on the ground, corporate sponsors and 1 percenters seem to be the norm.

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    If Shia LaBeouf has his way, this year's Cannes Film Festival is just a beginning.After previous trips to the festival with blockbusters "Transformers" and "Wall Str...

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