My E-Mail To Robert Redford

So you're totally not going to believe this, but I got an e-mail from Robert Redford, the famous actor!

Here is what it said:

Dear annika,

When President Bush took office in 2001, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $1.47. Today the average price is $2.89 and it’s much more in many places. This surge in gas prices has hit a nerve for many around the country, reminding us of an economy that is increasingly uncertain for the middle-class, a growing addiction to oil that draws us ever closer to dictators and despots, and a fragile global position with a climate that is increasingly out of balance.

It's time to rise to the challenge and Kick the Oil Habit.

Join me and thousands of others by taking action at www.KicktheOilHabit.org

We just launched a campaign to take on Big Oil companies and demand better energy solutions. Please take a moment to visit our site and watch our powerful video that shows how Big Oil and their backers in Washington are profiting while working Americans are paying more.

Our first action is to challenge oil companies to double the number of E85 ethanol fuel pumps at their stations within a year and pledge to offer renewable fuel at half of all gas stations within the decade.

Please join our effort and take action now: http://www.KicktheOilHabit.org

Thank you,

Robert Redford on behalf of the Kick the Oil Habit campaign.

I was so excited that I e-mailed him back right away!

Here's what I wrote:

Dear Mr. Redford,

Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god OMG OMG OMG!!!!

I can't believe I got an e-mail from you!

Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god!!!!

You are like, so awesome, and I've been a huge -- no your hugest -- fan for like ever!!!!!

I always wanted to tell you how much I loved you in Butch Cassidy, which is like my favorite. I didn't like The Sting so much, I mean you were great in it, but the movie was kind of boring in parts. I know it won an Oscar and all, but dude it was like really slow.

I even remember you in that Twilight Zone when you played Death! That was killer! Ha ha, get it? Death was killer!!!! How funny!!!!!

OMG OMG OMG ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod !!!! I just told Robert Redford a joke!!!!!!! I want to totally crawl in a hole and die.

Robert fucking Redford!!!! I can't believe it!!???

You know I love Paul Newman too. You guys should really do another movie together. If you see him tell him I loved it when he ate all those eggs. He didn't really eat them I know, but it was still funny. Like when he said "cause 50's a nice round number!" I laughed so hard. lol, it was funny.

Do you still keep in touch with Paul Newman?

Oh, also I loved it when you guys kept saying "who are those guys?" in Butch Cassidy. That was so awesome too.

And that movie where you played like a spy was really cool too. What was the name of that one. It was a long time ago when it came out. I think I saw it on an airplane, so I couldn't really hear it all too well. You know how those earphones they give you don't always work too well. And plus the person next to me kept wanting to talk to me, which was distracting. But I still liked it. What was the name of that movie? You know the one I'm talking about? I hope you do cuz you were in it! Maybe you could e-mail me back if you remember the name. You don't have to do it right away. Just e-mail me when you get the chance. That would be too cool. Then I would have two e-mails from you and everyone would be like sooo jealous!

Oh my god, I still can't believe you e-mailed me. Is it really you? Did I tell you I totally love you? You were really hot in Barefoot In The Park, too. I still think you're hot even though you're really old now. Paul Newman still looks good too. I love his salad dressing. I buy them all the time. And that salsa with the pineapple in it too. That's really good shit. You should try it if you haven't already.

LOL, what am I thinking? You probably get it for free and all. Ha ha. Don't mind me...

This is like so cool. It's almost as cool as actually meeting you. But it's even better because I just had a big bowl of really spicy chinese food and it would be so embarrassing if I met Robert Redford (that's you) and my breath totally smelled like garlic. That would be awful and so embarrassing and everything, so e-mail is probably better for right now.

Okay lemme see. All the President's Men was an awesome movie too. I liked that one. What else? The Natural! That movie kicked ass so much more than the one with Kevin Costner, which was too weird. I don't know what the point of that one was. Like why would he build that baseball field? What was the deal with that? I liked that you made your own bat in The Natural, even though it ended up breaking, but you still hit a bunch of home runs with it

Did you notice that in The Natural you started out as a pitcher, but then you switched to a home run hitter -- just like Babe Ruth did! That was the cool part. Well, one of the many cool parts. The whole movie was cool, for a baseball movie. My favorite baseball movie of all time was Bull Durham, which you weren't in. But Kevin Costner was in it, which is funny because he also did that one where he built the baseball field, which was kind of sucky as I said before.

I want to make sure I say everything because who knows if you'll change your e-mail addy in the future. I wrote an e-mail to Lindsay Lohan once but she changed her e-mail, so I never actually got through to her. This is totally cooler, because it's you who e-mailed me!

So how did you get my e-mail anyway? Do you really read my blog? That would be so cool if you did!!!

Okay there's some movies that you did that I haven't seen yet, but which I totally want to see, so don't worry I will. Like the one where you fly in that plane because I totally like biplanes. And the one where you talk to horses. I hear that one's good. And the one where you play that Mexican or you help out Mexicans or something like that. I had a teacher who showed that one in class, but I missed school that day. I think I was sick or something. But I want to see that one, and ummm, that other one where you go fishing a lot. My mom liked that one. She has the DVD, but I need to borrow it.

You were cool in that war movie too. Where you kept saying the Hail Mary, but you couldn't remember the rest of it so you just kept saying "hail Mary full of grace... hail Mary full of grace..." etc. I liked that movie too. What else? Oh the one where you were like a cowboy, but in modern times and you had a bunch of christmas lights on your cowboy suit. I can't really remember that one. And that one with you and all the bridges, where you have sex with Barbara Streisand or was that Meryl Streep? Okay, my friend says I'm totally trippin, cuz that was Clint Eastwood not you. I told her it was you, but if it wasn't you I'm sorry. You would have been great in it even if it wasn't you. My friend says "hey" by the way.

Anyways, I better let you go, cause I'm totally rambling.

Omygod I'm totally writing an e-mail to Robert Redford!!!!! Anyways, I know you wrote me about the gas prices thing and I promise I'll check out that website if I get the chance. I hate how like gas prices have gone so high. It really sucks because I have to pay a lot of money when I go to the gas station. Like today, I didn't even fill up my tank all the way, because it was so much money.

I actually had this idea. I was thinking, and yesterday I had this great idea about gas prices. Cuz like they're so high and all. And I was thinking if we like all get a bunch of people to send a bunch of e-mails to the oil companies and stuff, maybe they would listen to us and lower the prices. I don't know it's just a thought, you know, it's worth a try don't you think? Anyways, I promise I'll check out that website and see what it's all about and stuff.

Okay Mr. Robert Redford. Thank you for e-mailing me sir. Oh gawd that sounded so stupid stupid. I sound like such a fucking dork, sorry. Anyways, okay, so I'll just end this like I always do...

luv yazzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

your bestest fan ever,

annika

I hope he writes me back! Not like that stuck up Lindsay Lohan who totally ignored me.

Update: No response yet from Mr. Redford.