tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24200494.post5024535377409414392..comments2024-03-28T15:25:10.873-04:00Comments on Nicholas Stix, Uncensored: TCM is Showing Jose Ferrer in The Great Man Tonight at 8, Followed by Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis Sweet Smell of Success!Nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12372393717833610657noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24200494.post-92135499307259823492017-04-24T14:42:43.944-04:002017-04-24T14:42:43.944-04:00Here (http://www.weeklystandard.com/not-so-sweet/a...Here (http://www.weeklystandard.com/not-so-sweet/article/2339) is a Weekly Standard piece of 15 years ago by your old friend John Podhoretz on a broadway play of "Sweet Smell of Success." John Podhoretz much prefers the movie.<br /><br />TCM ran this (https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/tcm-diary-great-man/) review of "The Great Man" a few days ago. <br /><br />Note the last few paragraphs. The writer observes TCM host Ben Mankiewicz called his colleague-predecessor Robert Osborne "A Great Man" upon Osborne's death a while back. Osborne, you see, really was "A Great Man." <br /><br />In his afterward to Sweet Smell of Success, Mankiewicz went on the usual rant about how Walter Winchell went from "fighting the evil Klan and Adolf Hitler to backing "witch hunts of suspected communists." David In TNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15749838323613927456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24200494.post-1169335187946360262017-04-23T12:03:39.743-04:002017-04-23T12:03:39.743-04:00A 1956 movie audience would recognize within secon...A 1956 movie audience would recognize within seconds "The Great Man" as a parody of Arthur Godfrey, who was the biggest name in radio-TV entertainment in the late 40's and early 50's.<br /><br />By 1956, Godfrey's folksy public image had taken several hits. David In TNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15749838323613927456noreply@blogger.com