Beauty: I speak of the late Paul Newman and the not yet dead Robert Redford. One of their movies together is "The Sting," available for free, streaming on Netflix. Yes, there are thousands of other things to watch on streaming TV but for now, this is my pick. And yes, I have seen it many times before. Who cares? Sometimes you just want comfort food and sometimes you just want comfort movies. This is one of those movies.
Robert Redford is so young, and so sexy in his dirty suit and wearing his heart on his sleeve after his friend was killed. And no one can deny that there are few things better than seeing Paul Newman in his overalls at the carousel, wearing a fedora, after plunging his face into a sink of ice and water to erase a hangover. And his grin? Tell me that doesn't make your feet tap.
These two characters are worth the price of the entire show but it isn't gonna stop there. It's an outstanding cast: the evil Studs Lonnegan presented to us by the amazing Robert Shaw, the kindly whore shown to us by Eileen Brennan and a cast of character actors that makes us smile at every face. How they all unfold and how the con entraps Lonnegan and his cohorts is like a ballet being danced in front of us.
If you haven't seen this in a while, watch it again. This movie came out the same year my daughter was born, 1973, so it's 43 years old. But so far, half into it, there is nothing dated about it. But then, the Big Con always continues. The con is timeless. Just look at our political scene and tell me otherwise.
Enjoy it.
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