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Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis): "A press agent eats a columnist's dirt and is expected to call it manna.... A columnist can't do without us - except our good and great friend J.J. forgets to mention that. You see, we furnish him with items." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster): "Yes, with 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...
...orchestra also acquits itself quite well. Music director Matthew Burt leads an orchestra with the original orchestration and instrumentation. The production is the better for it; as the program explains, the audience hears the music as it was meant to be heard...
...capitalize on the teen gross-out craze, Lansing was feeling nostalgic for the old chase formula, which had peaked in 1963 with Spencer Tracy, Ethel Merman and a Who's Who of comics in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and hadn't been revisited since Burt Reynolds took to the road in the Cannonball Run flicks some 20 years ago. "I remember those comedies," says Lansing, "and I enjoyed them. I said, 'My God, what happened to that genre?'" Paramount hired Andy Breckman, a writer best known for his work with Saturday Night Live and David Letterman...
...talented guy, according to testimonials from Cary Grant, Bette Davis and Jackie Gleason. Burt also ranks his oeuvre for quality, with The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing coming in at No. 11. ("Cat Dancing was sorrow and pain," he reveals...
...BURT REYNOLDS burtreynolds.com