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...decidedly uneven show to which Lithgow lends his gifts is The Sweet Smell of Success, a musical adapted from the cult favorite film of the same title. Its protagonist, Sidney Falco (assayed by Tony Curtis on film and the up-and-coming Brian D’arcy James onstage) is a youngster consumed with a lust for power. Much like Leo Bloom in The Producers, he wants everything he’s ever seen in the movies. His key to the bright lights is the most powerful gossip columnist in the country, a vicious, preening Walter Winchel-like monster named...
...movie starts off with an intricate enough plot and the play opens up the story even more by fleshing out the back-ground of Sidney and J.J. In his thoroughly enjoyable book, John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation) has captured the sort of razor-sharp stylistic dialogue that is appropriate for the piece. The show never bogs down with exposition, and the humor is both biting and plentiful...
...74th annual Academy Awards, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry stepped into history. Berry became the first black woman ever to win a Best Actress Oscar and Washington became the first black man to win a Best Actor Oscar since Sidney Poitier in the 1963 movie "Lillies of the Field." It was an historic and welcome event, but the actors themselves, not the Hollywood establishment, deserve the credit for making it happen. Berry and Washington weren't handed anything by the Hollywood establishment, and were forced to fight for everything they've gotten in their careers...
...Julia Roberts, the Best Actor presenter, coining a word to remind us of her hyperventilating acceptance speech last year. Opening the envelope and seeing Denzel Washington's name, Roberts gushed, "I love my life!" before announcing the winner. Because, you know, when we see the first black man since Sidney Poiter four decades ago win the award, the first thing we think is: "Yeah, equal opportunity, blah blah blah - but more important, how does this make Julia Roberts feel about her life...
...will always be around, in other media, under other names: Rush Limbaugh on the radio, Bill O'Reilly on TV. The toadies and connivers and suckers and ham-handed cops are still out in force. And Sidney: well, there's a little Sidney in all of us, or there should be - just a little. We need that goading inner voice to put some hustle in us, make us smell success, look for the side street to advancement, scream in recriminating rage. We need to be our own press agents. And if we aren't quite up for or down...