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[–] WalnutSauceGoat 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Thanks for posting. Btw, Robert Redford is related by marriage to Sterling Van Wagenen.

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[–] Vindicator [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Really? That is interesting. Before I posted this, I did a SearchVoat and thought it odd we'd never had any mention of Van Wagenen in any previous post.

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[–] 21yearsofdigging 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Redford,I heard from various unrelated sources, was a big procurer of call girls. That in it's self is not so bad but apparently he will go to extreme lengths to cover this up. His image is everything to him. I know, worked with him. I liked him fine but yes, his image is very important to him

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[–] WalnutSauceGoat 2 points 0 points (+2|-2) ago  (edited ago)

I, too, found it odd. I also searched my own (extensive) archives, and the only(!) hit I got was a quote in a book on my hard drive called The Solaris Effect (2006), by Steven Dillon. The quote is on page 53:

"Involved in the festival, almost from the beginning, was local resident Robert Redford, who had purchased land in the Wasatch Mountains as far back as 1969. Redford, related by marriage to Sterling Van Wagenen, the festival’s first director, was chairman of the board of directors and the key figure in eventually having his cultural-minded, multidisciplinary arts organization, the Sundance Institute, take on the festival in 1985, and eventually change the name in 1991."

But that's all I know.