Hollywood icon Robert Redford and the way he was
Back when Robert Redford ’s looks beat even a Miss Universe, he’d bitch that it’s all the movies wanted from him — not his talent just his face. Few know he took greater care of that face than Courteney Cox, Salma Hayek, Bethenny Frankel, Ratajkowski, Carmen Electra, Rihanna and whatever partridge in a pear tree also cooked up skin schmears.
He told me that he’d splash his face with ice water, in hopes it would then “dewrinkle.” He creamed and greased his face nightly. But said, “I’m not holding up as well as Paul Newman.
“Though I have the same waist measurement I had at 20, I’m hearing Brad Pitt and Matt Damon are the new mes.” Insecurity hung on. In ’94 it was, “Shall I wear my dressier long-sleeved blue silk or not?” He wore sp