A worrying obsession with Robert Redford’s looks | Letters

John Mister calls out double standards and a blinkered focus on physical attributes. Linda Perham would like to see more photos of the late star

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”.