SUBMITTED BY MrSnuggles

November 27, 2001 — What is it exactly about Robert Redford that still makes him so appealing?

Sure, it could be his handsome 64-year-old face which still melts hearts. Or his smooth, easy-going charm that emanates so easily on screen. Or that he created one of the foremost independent film festivals to help get young filmmakers' work seen.

Or it could just be he has remained one of those enduring movie stars who throughout his career has chosen his projects carefully, both as an actor and as an Oscar-winning director.

Whatever the reason, we've been thinking about Redford a lot in the last couple of months. The actor has appeared in two films this fall: the patriotic The Last Castle and the high-powered spy thriller Spy Game.

In Rod Lurie's The Last Castle, Redford plays a court-martialed general who stages an uprising in a military prison against a corrupt warden, played by Tony Soprano himself, James Gandolfini. The film couldn't have opened at a better time, right after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks: Redford holding an American flag...priceless.

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