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Entertainment Newman, Redford 'amiable, charming' in Award winner 'The Sting' by Terry Dupuis One of the most popular box-office hits of recent years returns tonight for a special week-long engagement at the Odeon Theatre in Midland. The movie is The Sting, a 1973 film in which Paul Newman and Robert Redford portray a couple of con men during the . Depression. m The Sting begins with Redford and an older partner pulling a suc- cessful "switch" con on a passerby. It turns out, though, that the money belonged to a dangerous racketeer named Lon- negan (Robert Shawe). Redford's friend is killed and Redford himself narrowly escapes with his life. On the run, he looks up a master con man named Gondorff (Paul Newman), who was'also a friend of Redford's murdered partner. For revenge, Redford and Newman set up an elaborate scheme to "sting" the racketeer Lonnegan. Their scheme _ to swindle the big swindler forms the basis of the plot. The Sting is basically a fun movie, with Newman and Redford as amiable and charming a team as they were a number of years earlier in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. Not surprisingly, the Rock music comes of age by Peter Whittington Rock music has matured with arresting rapidity during the course of the last 25 years. The immature, inexperienced child of the 1950's and early 60's turned into a rebellious, experimental teenager in the late 60's. The 1970's have found a serious, sophisticated young adult. Rock and Roll has grown up. Originally, the basic purpose of Rock and Roll was to get people dan- cing. Witness the culturally starved but undeniably danceable music of the fifties. Bill Haley and the Comets. Chuck Berry. The late 60's saw the emergence of the Rock Concert and bands who became famous for outrageous onstage an- ties. Witness 'The Who' and their early amplifier attacks. Presently, with organizations like 'Kiss' around, music often takes a back seat to showmanship. Conversely, the seventies have also been the age of the non- performing studio rock band. Groups that hole up in the studio for years rehearsing, overdubbing, and tightening music that will never be presented onstage. Witness 'Ambrosia,' and...'Steely Dan." With their last public ~ performance in 1971, it's our good fortune that the Dan have decided to undertake a road trip this fall. Transferring that studio wizardry onto the stage should be quite a job. Apparently they'll be carrying a number of keyboard players, guitarists and vocalists. Definitely something to look forward to. Also, look for a new Steely. Dan album sometime -- in August. That collection of nostalgic noseblow, "The Beatles At Hollywood Bowl" received gold Status early this month. Talk about using a name to sell a record. Sure, that may be George John, Paul and Ringo twisting and shouting but there's no getting around the fact that it's simply not very good music. 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(Two weeks time). Keep listening. PEN THEATRE Thurs., Fri., Sat., June 23, 24, 25 Sundance Cassidy & Butch Kid PLUS Day of the Animals Sat. matinee My Side of the Mountain Sun., Moni., Tues., June 26, 27, 28 Scorchy plus Chatterbox Good Music All The Time (= director of The Sting is George Roy Hill, who also directed Butch Cassidy. Both Neman and Redford have always worked well particular director. Since The Sting, Redford did The Great Waldo Pepper with Hill, and Newman recently did with this Slapshot with him. In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Newman and Redford were pretty much the whole show. In The Sting they share the spotlight with some supporting players, several of whom have gone on to become better known to the general public in recent years. Robert Shaw is excellent as the nasty racketeer who is the target of the Big Con. (Since The Sting, Shaw has gone on to movie stardom in such hits as Jaws, Swashbuckler and Black Sunday. Charles Durning is also very good as a crooked cop on Newman and Redford's trail. (Durning later played important roles in Dog Day Afternoon, Breakheart Pass, and Twilight's Last Gleaming.) Also contributing towards making The Sting a superior en- tertainment are the costumes and sets, which convincingly recapture the underworld milieu of Chicago in the 1930's. Mention must also be made of the fine adap- REMEMBER NOW GOOD (~ aN Recapture"the STING Experience" | YOU FELT THE FIRST TIME. | WINNER OF 7 ; AC. King St., 526-5791 allit takes is alittle Confidence. Midland NOW S= Second exciting feature Maat) sterco FM - 93-1 ae | DRIVE-IN THEATRE PLAYING STREISAND | KRISTOFFERSON A STAR 4 IS BORN A Final Aatials Prot tation of Scott Joplin's ragtime tunes by Marvin Hamlisch. The Sting won 7 Academy Awards, for Best Picture; Best Director; Best Original Story and Screenplay; Best Costume Design; Best Art Direction; Best Film Editing; and Best H.S. ST. AMANT & SONS LTD. 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