Word: butch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BUTCH AND SUNDANCE: THE EARLY DAYS Directed by Richard Lester Screenplay by Allan Burns...
...curious way, this is a daring movie. It is a "prequel," as the neologism has it. The Early Days tells the story of how the title characters met and formed the partnership celebrated in that mighty hit of (can it be?) a decade ago, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In the circumstances it would have been sufficient merely to evoke the antic cheerfulness of the old movie and then coast home on its reputation. Instead, Director Richard Lester, a master of off-the-wall historical japery (The Three Musketeers), has chosen to make Butch and Sundance an exercise...
...pair of star-crossed lovers who are just 13. He is in delightful fettle and creates one classic bit, a gasping fit while reading a newspaper. Yet this is one latter-day Olivier film that has more going for it than its star. Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) and Screenwriter Allan Burns (cocreator of TV's original Mary Tyler Moore Show) have constructed a romantic comedy that, for all its contrivances, offers an indecent amount of emotional and comic satisfaction...
...Mitchell, dh 5 0 3 2 Stowell, 1b 5 0 0 0 Armstrong, c 4 1 1 0 Schwob, rf 4 0 0 0 Coutts, 3b 4 1 2 0 Adams, ss 3 1 0 0 38 7 13 5 HARVARD Kelley, 2b 4 0 1 0 Santos-Butch, cf 4 0 0 0 Blood, cf 0 0 0 0 Stenhouse, rf 3 0 0 0 Bingham, 1b 4 0 1 0 Marshall, If 3 0 1 0 Tilles, dh 3 0 1 0 Pearce, 3b 4 0 0 0 St. John, ss 3 0 0 0 Wark...
...Rangers should dump the Kings in two straight. L.A. will get its share of goals from Marcel Dionne, Butch Goring and Dave Taylor, and could stretch the series to three, but that is unlikely...