Title: Sweet smell of success
Description: "Best known as the basis for the classic film starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, and soon to be a major Broadway musical, Sweet Smell of Success is a dark and gripping novelette about media manipulation and the will to get ahead - by any means necessary. Lehman scathingly depicts the dark side of success through the twisted relationship of Sidney Falco, an ambitious publicist, and J. J. Hunsecker, a powerful and vindictive gossip columnist, fashioned after Walter Winchell.

As scandals are manufactured and reputations ruined for sport, the story spirals downward toward one last, savage act of revenge."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, American Short stories, Fiction, general, Hollywood (los angeles, calif.), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction
Places: Broadway (New York, N.Y.), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), Los Angeles (Calif.), New York (N.Y.)