Word: taut
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...buzzing around J.J., like Moscone the fly around sly-fox Volpone, is Curtis' Sidney. Mackendrick mentioned the Ben Jonson play to the actors as they shot outside "21" late one night; but he might also have said that Sidney was the fly to J.J.'s taut, watchful spider, and 52nd Street was his web. Whatever Sidney's floating status as villain and victim, Curtis was the victor in the movie. I'll bet that when he first read the script he thought exultantly, "That's me all over!" Curtis may have spent the 50s playing pretty boys at Universal...
...original story and the Broadway show both have their fascinations, but they'd be of only minor interest if they didn't bookend the movie. I remember loving it as a kid; to me it was a taut, 96min. primer in the ways bright people talked, dressed and hurt each other. Yet the film was a flop at the box office (Winchell announced, with apparent pleasure, that it lost $2 million) and invisible at awards time (it was the only one of Lehman's 50s scripts that did not win a Writers Guild nomination). Since then, "Sweet Smell" has become...
...forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered by a clear-eyed sympathy. Her prose here is more incantatory and hypnotic than ever...taut and often spellbinding...
Gone are the threadbare plot and misogynist overtones, and in their place lies a taut caper tale with Soderbergh at the top of his game. George Clooney reprises the role of Danny Ocean, a con-man just out of a New Jersey jail, who assembles a crew of 10 other men (hence Ocean’s Eleven) to steal $160 million from an impenetrably fortified vault holding cash reserves from the Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand casinos. Ocean runs the show, bringing in card-sharp Dusty (Brad Pitt), impersonator Saul (Carl Reiner) and pickpocket Linus (Matt Damon), among...
Harvard and Yale both entered The Game undefeated and untied at a time when America was taut with tension...