Life surely is unfair. Some people age far better than others. Let us be sexist for a moment and say there is something unsettling and unbecoming about a man dying his hair. Most people err on the side of dying their hair too dark as they age -- Al Pacino comes to mind, as does Wayne Newton -- which is the opposite of what one should do. As you age, you lose color in your skin so the hair should actually go lighter, which is what happens naturally. Of course, this is precisely what the divine Robert Redford has been doing, at least for his movies. At age 71, he is still intensely blond, with a requisite harvest of highlights. Sundance isn't simply the name of his movie festival and company. It could also be the name of his hair color. The result, as seen here in his latest, Lions for Lambs -- bad title in a season with a spate of them -- and the end result is strange especially since he's eschewed plastic surgery (or so he says in interviews). His skin, never great, appears mottled to the point of ressembling a topographical map. Is this what Brad Pitt will look like in 30 years? Anyway, it would be nice to see Redford without so much blondage. He's still beautiful, but the highlights are distracting.
