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AP<\/a>: Actor and activist, Robert Redford dies at the age of 89<\/span><\/p>\n Throughout the long history of the brog, I\u2019ve been saddened by the passing of many notable figures and shared my words and thoughts for those whom have meant the most to my general existence.\u00a0 I\u2019ve stated numerous names, of individuals who really had massive imprints on my general state of life, those whom help mold, shape or have a permanent residence at the forefront of my brain.<\/span><\/p>\n Guys like Sonny Chiba, Dikembe Mutombo, Kevin Conroy emerge quickly, as people for whatever reason or contributions to the shit I\u2019ve seen in my life, always maintained permanent resident status in my head, and even to this day, guys whom I\u2019ll make references to or think about when it comes to the countless analogies and metaphors and comparisons that I make when thinking about things around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Well, Robert Redford is up there on that echelon of individuals in the world that left an indelible mark in my life, and I\u2019m feeling melancholy about hearing about his passing.\u00a0 I can\u2019t really say that I\u2019m so much sad about it considering he was 89 years old and had clearly lived a full and prosperous life, but for those that will miss him the most, my heart goes out to.<\/span><\/p>\n However, I should be more specific, that my general fandom and appreciation for Robert Redford stems from a role he played in a film, based on a book that also left an indelible impression in my life, which is The Natural<\/em> by Bernard Malamud.\u00a0 After falling in love with the book, the movie was enjoyable, which really opened my eyes to who Robert Redford was, as he was portraying the intrepid Roy Hobbs, the former pitcher turned old rookie wunderkind, crushing home runs all over the place with this homemade baseball bat.<\/span><\/p>\n And although the film didn\u2019t portray it like the book did, Roy Hobbs was a human vacuum cleaner of a legendary eater, prompting one of my oldest friend groups and I to use his name as inspiration for whenever we wanted to destroy buffets all across Northern Virginia and eat like Roy Hobbs was trying to fill the void left in his heart from the early baseball career he never had.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, Roy Hobbs became something of a pseudonym for me through a variety of online endeavors, like the pen name I wrote through on Talking Chop<\/a> and a variety of other Vox websites, and was usually my go-to when it came to utilizing an online handle on gaming platforms like Xbox Live or League of Legends<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless, through Roy Hobbs I learned Robert Redford, and although Roy Hobbs was but just a single role played in a legendary career, whenever the thought of Roy Hobbs emerges in my brain, it\u2019s Robert Redford that I see, and for that alone, made me a fan of Robert Redford.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s funny, because as learned of his existence was I made aware of just how much work he\u2019s done in Hollywood, for Hollywood, and the film industry in general, but it wasn\u2019t until really reading several obituaries and tributes to the man did I realize just how much more he did, as far as his support for independents beyond just Sundance, as well as his activism, trying to make the world a lesser pile of shit than it is on the regular.<\/span><\/p>\n Robert Redford was truly an extraordinary human being, and it\u2019s like I discovered him in a reverse order sort of fashion; gravitating towards him on account of a singular role, but then learning more about him after the fact, as opposed to the other way around.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s a sad day in Hollywood, film and even literature to hear about the passing of Robert Redford, but at least as far as I\u2019m concerned, he\u2019ll always be relevant and worth mentioning, if for anything at all, being the guy who was Roy Hobbs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AP: Actor and activist, Robert Redford dies at the age of 89 Throughout the long history of the brog, I\u2019ve been saddened by the passing of many notable figures and shared my words and thoughts for those whom have meant the most to my general existence.\u00a0 I\u2019ve stated numerous names, of individuals who really had … Continue reading Happy Trails, Roy Hobbs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,74,100,137,171,56,154,41,129,83,99,63,19],"class_list":["post-50868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-books","tag-comparison","tag-death","tag-eulogy","tag-food","tag-league-of-legends","tag-movies","tag-nostalgia","tag-observations","tag-reminiscing","tag-talking-chop","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50870,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50868\/revisions\/50870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}