By The Editors 8/18/10 3:04am

Editors Note

Talking Dirty

“I love this dirty town!”

So said gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker in the 1957 classic movie Sweet Smell of Success. Dirt in every sense of the word (earth, gossip, smut) has always been a byproduct of, and a stimulant to, everything that makes New York New York: the jostling immigrants, the rising towers, the rambling Read More

By William Berlind 3/18/02 12:00am

Sweet Smell of Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch is not a “cookie filled with arsenic,” to quote one of the million quotable lines in Sweet Smell of Success , the noir musical he’s adapted from the 1957 movie. He’s more like a cookie filled with Oreo cream.

Double stuff me, Sidney.

When Marvin Hamlisch was 16, he wrote a Top Read More