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...your clients' names attached. That's the only reason the poor slobs pay you: to see their names in my column all over the world.... [Press agents also] dig up scandal about prominent people and shovel it thin among columnists who give them space." - dialogue from the film "Sweet Smell of Success...
...invite to sit at this table tonight, is a hungry press agent, and fully up to all the tricks of his very slimy trade. [He pulls out a cigarette and turns to his victim.] Match me, Sidney." Sidney: "Not right this minute, J.J." - from the film "Sweet Smell of Success...
...take a deep breath. After a brief but painful downturn marked by widespread layoffs, a morale-crushing bear market in stocks and the virtual shutdown of the travel industry post-Sept. 11, the rich smell of recovery is in the air. Even basset-faced Alan Greenspan has picked up the scent. "Recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way," the Fed chief told the Senate Banking Committee...
NICOLE KIDMAN (Moulin Rouge) Born: Honolulu Moved: c. 1970, age 3 "There's something about the place; it's the smell of the gum leaves. Australia's in my blood, it's in my humor...I love [Sydney's] zest for life and the openness of us Aussies." KYLIE MINOGUE (new album, Fever) Born: Melbourne, Australia! But currently lives in London, visiting home twice a year "My poor parents have three kids living about as far away from them as you can get--and they're very cool...
...SMELL OF THE KILL Studies of skulls and braincases indicate that T. rex had a keen sense of smell, a key weapon in tracking prey. The dinosaur's nostrils have been repositioned as well: closer to the end of its snout rather than its eyes...