burt lancaster

“He looks healthy and gay and desperate.”

Do you know where the cover of Against Type is from? It looks really cool, but I can’t seem to find the original photo.

Carson Smith and Fred Katz remained and this was the group that played such an integral part in the film Sweet Smell Of Success starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster. ... Elmer Bernstein incorporated much of the music by Katz and Hamilton into the movie score and when I interviewed Chico in 1994 at London’s Jazz café he had this to say about the production, “It really was a dynamite film and we had a ball making it. Tony hung out with Paul Horn a lot because he wanted to learn the flute and Burt really was a funny dude with a hell of a sense of humour. He had a special edition of the Los Angeles Herald printed with the headline: Chico Hamilton- Busted! which he showed to the entire cast.”