Gawker: Robert Redford

The Sundance Kid's Big Haul

Nick Denton — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:42:27 EDT

Rainbow Media, that gay-sounding TV group actually owned by the macho Dolan family, is adding the Sundance Channel to its portfolio. One wouldn't have thought there was much money in broadcasting obscure documentaries and independent movies. But Sundance Channel reaches 30 million homes and is going to Cablevision unit Rainbow for $496m. One of the beneficiaries: actor Robert Redford, who played a bank robber in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and applied the Sundance name to the annual film festival in Park City and the premium cable channel.

Ted Koppel Is Homeless

Richard — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:21:42 EST

[Actor and activist Robert Redford at a marketing event in Barcelona yesterday; image via WENN]

CodePink's new line beats the original, Rumpled Old Man Endorses Sitting.

Sally Jessy Raphael Is Very Unhappy With You

Richard Lawson — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:00:07 EST

[Robert Redford spotted at LAX, Jan 8; image via Bauer-Griffin]

Gossip roundup

Gawker — Mon, 27 Jan 2003 05:50:54 EST

· Tina Brown uses a word that's too big for the NY media community to understand. [Page Six]
· Submercer's "subversion" party features hotshot editors as DJs. Up next: Radar's Maer Roshan, Spin's Sia Michel, and Vanity Fair's Dana Brown. [Page Six]
· Macaulay Culkin had to teach Marilyn Manson how to smoke for his role in the Sundance film Party Monster. [Page Six]
· Page Six discovers Ken Courtney's controversial T-shirts. [Page Six]
· The Key West home of the recently-divorced Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Levin will be featured in an upcoming issue of Architectural Digest. [Cindy Adams]
· Sign in the Q3 bus to LaGuardia: "The driver reserves the right to kick your ass." [Cindy Adams]
· Robert Redford finds Britney Spears' Sundance invasion annoying. [Liz Smith]
· Paramount head Sherry Lansing is rumored to be the next head of the Carter Center; a movie about New York real estate heir turned transvestite fugitive is in the works; and model Angie Everhart has "fired everyone in her life" and is starting over. [NY Daily News]