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Steve Schapiro Fahey / Klein Gallery OFF THE BEATEN PATH - Redford as Halsy Knox, a motorcyclist banned from the track, alongside Lauren Hutton in 1970’s “Little Fauss and Big Halsy.” Making a difference behind the camera 17 set 2025 - Los Angeles Times By Nardine Saad Sundance Kid’s reach surpassed the big screen Robert Redford, a generational icon who commanded the big screen as the star of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Way We Were” and won awards and lasting praise for directing films such as “Ordinary People,” has died. He was 89. Long a critical force in the elevation of independent filmmaking through the Sundance Institute, Redford died Tuesday morning at his home, his publicist confirmed. He was “in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” the statement said. Redford was a natural star who seemed to comfortably reflect the postwar zeitgeist in America with his choice of movie roles and side projects. As Newsweek put it, “What Red...