So what was Robert Redford’s favorite on-screen kiss?
“Did I ever kiss Paul Newman?” he answered.
Redford was in town Wednesday night as the final speaker in the Unique Lives & Experiences Series. He filled the Buell Theatre to the rafters mostly with women who usually hear other women at these talks. The sound was sometimes iffy with the soft-speaking Redford, but people were so happy to be in the same room with Sundance it didn’t seem to matter.
He talked about being a janitor at The Sink bar in Boulder when he was a student there and how he was booted from CU-Boulder for having too much fun. Redford had some big fun at lunch at Teatro Wednesday with old buddies who still live in Colorado.
After the talk and some glad-handing with patrons, Redford, his girlfriend and assistant headed to Bistro Vendome for steak tartar, mussels and frites.
The Norm Tour
Reports are coming in on Mayor John Hickenlooper’s visit to Las Vegas last weekend. He took the notorious Norm Tour, the signature trip through Vegas eateries and nightspots led by former Denver newsman Norm Clarke. Clarke is now the toast of Vegas with his dishy daily column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. And there is no tour like the Norm Tour. The seas part, the velvet ropes drop, the lines are left behind.
Norm, Hick and company went to N9ne steakhouse for dinner, dropped into Ghost Bar, where Hick ran into New Mexico’s Gov. Bill Richardson, then onward to Pure nightclub in Caesars Palace. The gang held on until 2 a.m. Oh my aching mayoral head.
The mayor’s office did not return calls by deadline.
“He’s a rock star,” said Clarke. “He had Denver people coming up to him left and right.”
Ka-ka-katie
Katie Couric ruffled more than a few feathers at last week’s convention of CBS affiliates in Las Vegas. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Couric dissed her fellow network anchors by saying evening news audiences “don’t want a mechanical Ted Baxter … People want a multidimensional (news anchor) and not someone they can put in a box.” She went on to say the “pretentious era” of news anchors was over. Yikes.
Couric comes to Denver July 13 to visit affiliate KCNC-Ch. 4. Ch 4 mouthpiece Danielle Dascalos says no schedule or agenda has been set, and Couric has yet not agreed to meet with Denverites or do any promotions with the station. Deets to follow.
Cherry Creek Chow
The Cherry Creek North Gourmet Series is pared down to two days this year, Aug. 11 & 12 at Fillmore Plaza. TV cookers Rick Bayless, Lidia Bastianich and Nick Stellino coming in to cook and schmooze. It wraps with a Grand Tasting on Aug. 12 with 15 area restaurants, hundreds of wines, music and a Ketel One Martini Bar. Go to ccngourmetseries.com.
City spirit
“Real World” cast is down to play midnight kickball against the Denver Kickball Coalition Wednesday at Sonny Lawson Park at 2300 Welton St. … Local gadabout Randy Wren turns 55 today, goes to church and takes his mom to “Crowns” at the DPAC. What a good boy … matchbook twenty’s Rob Thomas is shooting a DVD at his June 28 Red Rocks concert with Jewel … Sez who: “Anything that requires 12 steps is not worth doing.” Homer Simpson
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on “Good Day Colorado” on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
