Paul Newman @ 100: "The Sting"
by Lynn Lee
No doubt about it, Paul Newman was at peak stardom when he signed on to The Sting. But he needed a hit: he hadn’t had one since Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and his intervening films had all underperformed. Fortuitously, he was about to enjoy the biggest blockbuster of his career in the form of a Butch Cassidy reunion with co-star Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill...