His book makes Sweet Smell of Success seem like a heroic victory over its producers’ own worst instincts, and an even more remarkable achievement than we already thought it was.

All of which gives a special piquancy to the classic American movie about the gossip trade, Sweet Smell of Success, first released in 1957 and now out on a ravishing new digital transfer from ...

Some years ago, I dated a French economics student named Ariane, a woman of many charms and qualities, among them a flawless and effortlessly elegant sense of taste. Not so much in men, perhaps ...

"Sweet Smell of Success," the Broadway-bound new tuner trying ... But John Guare’s sardonic book is shot through with the kind of problems that can sink an otherwise impressive show.

An e-book version will be available this summer on Amazon, and he has done Barnes & Noble book signings in Chicago and New York. I met Fischer once, and found him to be a likable avuncular type.

And if it’s sweet — well, you’ve won the trifecta ... Mid-1980s: Malls and airports of America are perfumed with the smell of baking buns of the T.J. Cinnamons and Cinnabon.

Novelist Ruark has a sometimes fascinating knack for evoking the smell of money in print ... bails him out with a $1,000,000 gift. At book’s end, Craig broods, in italics: “How very rich ...

Success can be scuppered by an own goal through the advance publicity, marketing or cover copy, and what once looked like a potential finalist fails to get through the group stage. Or a book such ...