Word: stings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visuals, then: he looks like a statue placed perfectly to fill in these scenes. Indeed, if there's one problem with Hill's tableau, it's that the period stuff looks a little stagy and flat (less so than most contemporary American movies set in the urban thirties, The Sting, Lady Sings the Blues, etc., but tacky compared to what the Europeans can do, maybe because they have the buildings and untouched sections of cities to do it with). In this case perhaps Bronson-the beaten face, the mistrustful eyes-is just another set piece in a museum of Depression...
...began when a record company, Nonesuch, began issuing Joplin albums played by such "straight" pianists as Joshua Rifkin and William Bolcom. It gained distinction in 1972 when Vera Brodsky Lawrence, an ex-concert pianist, brought out a two-volume edition of Joplin's printed music. The film The Sting made Joplin's The Entertainer a national hit. This year came the bestselling novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (TIME, July 14); a central figure is the black ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. As Walker sits down to play Joplin's Wall Street Rag, Doctorow writes: "Small clear chords...
Your marquee [Aug. 4] should have read "Presenting: Gerald Ford, Leonid Brezhnev and an All-Star Cast in The Sting...
...dancers, Nicholas Dante, had converted the tape into a five-hour play with no music. They put it on in workshop but decided it was too heavy. Bennett then called in his old friend and dance arranger, Marvin Hamlisch, who arranged the Oscar-winning score for The Sting. "I wanted an opera-ballet," Bennett explains. "The music only stops three times in the whole show. I wanted the music to stop for talk rather than a show where everyone talks, and then they sing and dance...
...male camaraderie movie!" Male camaraderie was very big last summer, and suddenly Altman was playing the Newman-Redford. Woodward-Bernstein game. Depending on what: they thought of the picture, the critics had California Split down as a good army-buddies film, or a poor take-off on The Sting...