Robert Redford the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Downhill Racer", Redford bought an entire ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah, called "Timp Haven", which was renamed "Sundance". Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Portions of the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, were shot near the ski area. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in
Robert G. Newman Robert G. Newman Robert G. Newman (* October 26th 1937 in The Hague; † August 1st 2018 in New York City) was an US-american physician, scientist, health manager and philanthroph. Robert Gabriel Newman was born in The Hague, Netherlands, as child of german emigrants. At that time his parents, as jews, were on the escape from national-socialist Germany. The father, Rudolph Neumann (later Randolph Newman), and the mother Eva Neumann born Feilchenfeldt (later Eva Newman) both were legal practitioners. The family then moved to New York City in August 1939. After the end of WW2 Newman for some years lived