Iwas sitting at a table at a studio commissary many years ago and suddenly felt things shift. The room, which had been buzzing and humming with the usual lunchtime energy, felt somehow different.

Robert Redford had walked into the room.

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That’s a pretty good working definition of movie star , when you get right down to it: someone who can walk into a room and everyone feels an invisible electric charge. And it’s not as if people fussed over Redford or stared. It was a movie studio commissary. Famous faces were all over the place. But Redford was different. People felt a change in the room before they knew that it was he who had caused it. They look

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