Yesterday, the death of Robert Redford (1936-2025) reminded me of the 1973 movie "The Sting", directed by George Roy Hill (1921-2002) and starring Redford and Paul Newman (1925-2008), which won seven Oscars in 1974, including Best Picture. It came out in December 1973 when I was nine years old and lived in England, so I probably didn't see it right away. But after my family moved back to the United States in 1974, I watched it many times, and now I realize that it was my first "favorite movie", as well as a big influence on my taste for movies about confidence games or more generally movies with characters playing roles. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 17 September 2025)