Summer 2010. Sweet Smell of Success (Palgrave Macmillan/BFI, 96 pages, $15) By James Naremore. We now think of Alexander Mackendrick’s Sweet Smell of Success—a major flop in its day—as one of the key ...

Wednesday’s screening of one of the great newspaper movies, “Sweet Smell of Success,” will offer an opportunity to ponder anew the probity of the press. At a time when the reputation of the ...

The "I" was Marvin Hamlisch, ... The 1986 Smile and the 2002 Sweet Smell of Success, two other Hamlisch shows based on old movies, added little to the composer’s canon.

NEW YORK - Marvin Hamlisch was blessed with perfect pitch and an infallible ear. "I heard sounds that other children didn't hear," he wrote in his autobiography.

Hi, this is Jim Mangold, and this is The Treat: [the 1957 film] Sweet Smell of Success, written by Clifford Odette and Ernest Lehman, directed by my old mentor Alexander McKendrick, starring Burt ...