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...Lehman should have known by then that Hollywood was just Winchell's Broadway with better weather; chicanery and cupidity know no time zone. At Lehman's first meeting with Lancaster, the actor walked in zipping his fly and declaring, "She swallowed it!" Soon Lehman's writing assignments were extending beyond script work, according to Kate Buford's cogent biography, "Lancaster: An American Life," which gives the fullest account of the making of "Sweet Smell." Barbara Nichols, who was to play the sexy cigarette girl, had spent most of a recent night trysting with the film's producer, James Hill - like...
...much for decor: a tatty front room with a fat water streak down the wall and a desk for his adoring secretary Sally (Jeff Donnell), and behind this a small bedroom where Sidney changes clothes between appointments. But it's metaphorically sumptuous, as the dressing room where Broadway's self-proclaimed star of the future dons his tailored shirts and form-hugging suits. It's also Sidney's dressing-down room. Insults are his perennial plats du jour; he dishes them out - one term of endearment is "Lump!" - and sometimes he takes them...
...BROADWAY SIDNEY...
...Sidney: "I am J.J. Hunsecker! It's who I'm gonna be, only bigger." - from the Broadway show "Sweet Smell of Success...
...Marvin Hamlisch: "The Way We Were," "A Chorus Line," "They're Playing Our Song," "The Goodbye Girl" - all pulsing odes to Manhattan. Director Nicholas Hytner and designer Bob Crowley have confected some of the most enchanted theatrical evenings of the last two decades. Still I wondered: why a musical? Broadway songs are for what you can't say, for what's in your heart. Sidney, J.J. - what heart? And their success, which J.J. bathes in and Sidney just sniffs at, has as much to do with what they hide as what they say. These men do not explain themselves. They...