A worrying obsession with Robert Redford’s looks

Robert Redford was described as ‘supremely beautiful’ and ‘incandescently handsome’ in a recent article. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty

I found the number of references to Robert Redford’s looks in Peter Bradshaw’s article worrying (Robert Redford: The incandescently handsome star who changed Hollywood forever, 16 September).

Here they are: “supremely beautiful”; “indecently attractive”; “outrageously handsome”; “incandescently handsome”; “handsomeness on legs”;“His photograph was in the dictionary next to ‘handsome’”; “blond bombshell”; “like a very lonely and beautiful woman”; “pure handsomeness”; “Redford’s physical beauty”; “always more than a pretty face”.

If any columnist had reviewed the life of one of Hollywood’s great female actors with a similarly blinkered focus on their physical attributes, they would surely have been taken to task for such superficial and lookist platitudes. Old sexy bum deserved better.
John Mister
Charmouth, Dorset

• More pictures of Robert Redford and fewer of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage, please.
Linda Perham
Ilford, London

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