by cschultz-2 » Sat Aug 18, 2012 12:36 am
Gee, for someone with such strong, and negative, opinions, you're curiously misinformed. "Most celebs don't give two craps about their fans"? At the time of his death, Paul Newman had donated some $250 million to charitable causes. Jerry Lewis has raised over $1 billion for medical research. Danny Thomas raised the funds that built the St. Jude Children's Hospital. These are not the actions of celebs who "don't give two craps about their fans," but the endeavors of modern humanitarians, almost human saints.
Would you be terribly insulted if I gave you a list of reading materials? Probably you would, so let me summarize: Robert Redford has occasionally been a jerk during his career, but no one's ever accused him of being contemptuous, or even uncaring, of his fans. Quite the opposite. In fact, Redford's almost always been noted for being solicitous of his fans; he cultivates them. There have been times in his life when he's made decisions based on the opinions of his fans: He's turned down roles in movies because he's thought his appearance in those movies might alienate or offend his fans. As you've seen with your own eyes in the materials I've posted, he's gone out of his way for his fans, and taken time to sign autographs for them.
Thousands and thousands of requests for autographs you say? Not likely. You need to give this some thought and be more realistic. I doubt he's getting more than, say, a hundred per week...and probably substantially less. And you think he's actually hired a secretary whose job is to duplicate his signature, as a means of expressing some private contempt for the people who collectively purchased Sundance for him? No, I just don't believe it. Not when I consider what I've read about the man...and also what I've heard about the man, from people who know him.
Sorry, but my money's on Redford. It might take him a while to get around to it, but those are his signatures on those photos. He's signing those autographs.
Gee, for someone with such strong, and negative, opinions, you're curiously misinformed. "Most celebs don't give two craps about their fans"? At the time of his death, Paul Newman had donated some $250 million to charitable causes. Jerry Lewis has raised over $1 billion for medical research. Danny Thomas raised the funds that built the St. Jude Children's Hospital. These are not the actions of celebs who "don't give two craps about their fans," but the endeavors of modern humanitarians, almost human saints.
Would you be terribly insulted if I gave you a list of reading materials? Probably you would, so let me summarize: Robert Redford has occasionally been a jerk during his career, but no one's ever accused him of being contemptuous, or even uncaring, of his fans. Quite the opposite. In fact, Redford's almost always been noted for being solicitous of his fans; he [i]cultivates[/i] them. There have been times in his life when he's made decisions based on the opinions of his fans: He's turned down roles in movies because he's thought his appearance in those movies might alienate or offend his fans. As you've seen with your own eyes in the materials I've posted, he's gone out of his way for his fans, and taken time to sign autographs for them.
[i]Thousands and thousands[/i] of requests for autographs you say? Not likely. You need to give this some thought and be more realistic. I doubt he's getting more than, say, a hundred per week...and probably substantially less. And you think he's actually hired a secretary whose job is to duplicate his signature, as a means of expressing some private contempt for the people who collectively purchased Sundance for him? No, I just don't believe it. Not when I consider what I've read about the man...and also what I've heard about the man, from people who know him.
Sorry, but my money's on Redford. It might take him a while to get around to it, but those are his signatures on those photos. He's signing those autographs.
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