Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smolders intermittently, which is in itself surprising because the plot could set soap opera back at least ten years. Bing Crosby might have cheered everybody by husking a tune or two, but instead he is up to his tonsils in a sticky broken-home situation that would challenge the sweet wisdom of Dorothy Dix. He just cannot forgive his ex-wife (Mary Fickett) for letting herself be seduced, then married by that smooth talker from the State Department (Richard Eastham). The brink is attained when Mary shows up to play tug of war with Bing for custody of their...
...Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...Academy last week: "We must never give reaction a chance to return to Turkey." Within 24 hours after President Bayar spoke, Turkey's legislators by an almost unanimous vote refused to pardon Hodja Boyar. For all Turks who believe in separation of church and state, it was a sweet victory, except for the fact that when police went to escort him to prison, Hodja Boyar was nowhere to be found...
...Sweet Smell of Success (Hecht, Hill and Lancaster; United Artists) is a high-tension jolt into the rat-eat-rat, rat-tat-tattle world of a monstrous Broadway columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his favorite hatchetman (Tony Curtis), a pressagent who has swapped his soul for a mess of items. No self-respecting vulture would be caught in the company of these carrion slingers. Says Curtis the flack of Lancaster the gossipist: "You got him for a friend; you don't need an enemy!" Says Burt to Tony: "I'd hate to take a bite...
...much for the audience-and the Scripps-Howard representative. Said he wearily, as Sandra realized that a tie can be as sweet as a victory: "We're so tickled to have such top spellers that we've decided to award first prizes of $1,000 to both girls...