Robert Redford the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Downhill Racer", Redford bought an entire ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah, called "Timp Haven", which was renamed "Sundance". Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Portions of the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, were shot near the ski area. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in
Dallas Sting Classic League). Players voted to call themselves The Sting, taking the name from the 1973 hit movie starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman. In 1976, Sting became the first girls or women's soccer team to travel outside the United States and the first to travel to Mexico. Sting faced Mexico's national champion team in Mexico City, playing before 35,000 fans in Mexico City's Olympic Stadium prior to a division one men's professional match. In 1977, Sting became the first American girls soccer team to play in Europe, playing in Sweden's Gothia Cup and falling to a team from Taiwan in