00:00According to Julia Phillips, a producer on The Sting,
00:02George Roy Hill initially wanted Sterling Hayden or Richard Boone
00:06in the role of the crime boss, Doyle Lohan, Lineman, Lonergan.
00:12Richard Boone was actually hired,
00:14then backed out at the last minute without any explanation.
00:16He just stopped returning calls from producers.
00:19While Paul Newman was in Ireland shooting the Macintosh Man,
00:22he sent Robert Shaw the script.
00:24Shaw loved it, agreed to join the cast,
00:27but after suffering a leg injury while playing handball,
00:31which is laced with athletic irony,
00:34Shaw worried he would have to quit the film.
00:36George Roy Hill instead suggested Shaw work the new limp into his character,
00:41which you just saw he did.
00:44Among The Sting's seven Oscar wins at the 1974 Academy Awards,
00:48composer Marvin Hamlisch won the first of his three Oscars
00:52for arranging the score from original compositions by Scott Joplin.
00:56Hamlisch's two other Oscar wins came the same night
01:00for his work on The Way We Were,
01:03which starred Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.
01:06Coming up, more cons.
01:08This one, a heist picture starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.
01:11How to Steal a Million from Fox in 1966
01:14is next on TCM.
01:19Next on TCM,
01:21How to Steal a Million,
01:23then the Thomas Crown Affair,
01:25and later, Nine Queens.
01:28Get royally swindled on TCM tonight.
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