Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweet Smell of Success reeks of the putrid kingdom bounded on all four sides by Broadway and ruled by the powerful typewriter of J.J. Hunsecker, columnist for the New York Globe. It is the story of sleazy press agent Sidney Falco's ruthless attempt to follow his nose, which he doesn't hesitate to use in his dealings with J.J. It is also the story of J.J.'s equally ruthless attempts to prevent the marriage of his neurotic sister Suzy with a straight arrow guitarist, Steve Dallas, who has "integrity--acute, like indigestion...
...turn to blackmailing one rival columnist and procuring a prostitute for another in order to have an item smearing Dallas printed in the papers. Just to make sure, he plants marijuana in Dallas' coat and has him beaten and then arrested by a Hunsecker-owned police officer. Indeed, Sidney walks in "moral twilight," "a cookie full of arsenic...
When S. N. Behrman was an undergraduate at Harvard, he and the late Pulitzer Prize playwright Sidney Howard were members of George Pierce Baker's "47 Workshop." The big goal for young dramatists at that time was the Castle Square Prize, offered by a local Boston theatre, and both Behrman and Howard submitted plays. Neither was successful, however, with the award going to another Workshop member...
...Behrman encountered Howard in Hollywood and inquired after the whereabouts of the Prize-winner, whose name he had forgotten. "Oh, I saw him just last week," said Howard. "I went with Sam Goldwyn to Tijuana, and we had just entered a gambling house, when I heard a voice: 'Hello, Sidney!' It was the fellow who won the Castle Square Prize; he was the croupier...
Cemented Partnership. The jukebox musclemen never hesitated to take direct action. Brooklyn Jukebox Operator Sidney Saul sobbed as he recalled the night two years ago when a trio of ex-convicts fed nickels into one of his own machines to drown out his screams, and thoroughly thumped him until he agreed to split his profits. The bulk of the beating was administered by a workmanlike hoodlum named Ernest "Kippy" Filocomo. Said Saul: "He began punching me in the head and face. When I pleaded for him to stop, they kept saying to each other, 'This fellow...