"(Hulton Archive/Getty Images)(Ron Frehm/AP)For many viewers, Redford was Sundance - not the film institute but the outlaw. Starring in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," he escaped a posse of lawmen by jumping off a cliff and into a river. (Never mind that his character can't swim). A few years after the film's release, Redford made a very different leap, throwing himself into environmental causes even as critics told him to stick to movies."
"In the late 1960s, when Kuscsik and other women began breaking barriers in the marathon, the running world tended to believe that women were just too frail to run 26.2 miles. Skeptics encouraged women to limit themselves to five miles or less, warning that their uterus might fall out if they attempted a longer race. To Kuscsik, this was nonsense:"
Robert Redford became identified with the outlaw Sundance after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and later redirected his public profile toward environmental advocacy. He faced skepticism for entering conservation work but ultimately became a prominent champion for wildlife and protection of public lands in the American West. In the late 1960s, Nina Kuscsik and other women challenged assumptions that women were too frail for marathons, confronting warnings that women limit themselves to short distances and becoming pioneers in major races. An R&B visionary produced only three studio albums yet helped pioneer the neo-soul movement, showing artistic influence beyond output volume.
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