Redgrave bathes in controversy

October 19, 2007 SAG HARBOR, N.Y. -- While accepting her career achievement award Thursday at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Vanessa Redgrave showed that the past half-century has dulled neither her talent nor her penchant for controversy. During her conversation with the equally outspoken Alec Baldwin at the Bay Street Theatre here, the pair touched upon their mutual disdain for government actions and Redgrave's memorable performances, including her Academy Award-winning role in 1977's "Julia." Baldwin said that she has remained an English citizen, and Redgrave cited her World War II childhood as the root of her own love of her country and citizenship throughout the world.

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