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...Sweet Smell" is noir, oui - but as brisk as the winter nights on which Sidney refuses to wear a topcoat. Mackendrick, whose aim was to play it "fast and high," wastes no time on dead spots for the audience to mull over what's just been said. The actors, servants of the superb dialogue, speak it quickly and crisply, without trying to find meaning in Method or profundities in pauses. Lancaster and Curtis never go outside their roles to remind us that they're really lovable scamps on a holiday in the sewers; that may have been what kept their...
...Sidney: "I am J.J. Hunsecker! It's who I'm gonna be, only bigger." - from the Broadway show "Sweet Smell of Success...
...seems to have run out of tunes. But it could be I'm too possessive of the movie, too reluctant to give credit to those who have tampered with it - sorry, elaborated on it. Get back to me in 45 years; maybe we'll see another classic in another "Sweet" flop...
...world "Sweet Smell" so pungently defines was nearly in the past tense. The Broadway we glimpse under the opening credits reveals a street little like today's. The Trans-Lux Theatre, the Warner and Capital and Rivoli: all are gone. So are the roomy, stately Checker Cabs. The Palace Theatre, where the Herbie Temple sequence was shot, dropped vaudeville shortly after the picture was made. The Brill Building, Tin Pan Alley's Deco palace, still gleams, though it was never a residence; J.J.'s penthouse apartment, with its marble finishings, a Xanadu-size fireplace and a terrace that beckons frail...
...time of "Sweet Smell," the boites that gave a home to the columnists were heading for twilight - or, since they were nightclubs, their final dawn. The Stork Club went bankrupt and then kaput in the 60s. A later disco spurt would revive the turbid El Morocco; it's still there, but unrecognizable. The "21" Club somehow survived as a rich man's steak house until Anne Rosenzweig took over in the 80s and began serving edible food. Toots Shor declined when night games kept reporters from having dinner there with the ballplayers they covered. There were fewer ballplayers...