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Nichols and May : Interviews /

"In the late 1950s, Mike Nichols (1931-2014) and Elaine May (b. 1932) soared to superstar status as a sketch comedy duo in live shows and television. After their 1962 breakup, both went on to long and distinguished careers in other areas of show business-mostly separately, but sporadically toge...

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Otros Autores: Kapsis, Robert E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Mike Nichols: Chronology
  • Elaine May: Chronology
  • Mike Nichols: Filmography
  • Elaine May: Filmography
  • Profile: A tilted insight / Robert Rice
  • Elaine May: Q&A about her play / Richard F. Shepard
  • The cold loneliness of it all / Vincent Canby
  • Mike Nichols: director as star / Mel Gussow
  • Whatever happened to Elaine May? / Thomas Thompson
  • Elaine May has a thing on not talking to press: nonlinear interview with Elaine May / Joyce Haber
  • It depends on how you look at it / Barry Day
  • On location with Catch-22 / Nora Ephron
  • How to succeed in interviewing Elaine May (try, really try) / Frank Rich
  • Elaine May: too tough for Hollywood? or, the Benadryl Tapes / Michael Rivlin (interview by Leonard Probst)
  • Elaine May: a new film, but not a New Leaf / Andrew Tobias
  • Mike Nichols / Jeffrey Sweet
  • Mike Nichols: the special risks and rewards of the director's art / Barbara Gelb
  • Did Mike Nicholas squander his luck on Heartburn? / Paul Rosenfield
  • The road to Ishtar: how Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, and Elaine May made a farce in the desert for just $40 million / David Blum
  • Mike Nichols: a new feeling about films / Charles Champlin
  • Nichols, May honored by TV, radio museum / Jane Hall
  • Who's afraid of the big bad Wolf? / Peter Biskind
  • They all have a secret / Patrick Goldstein
  • Of metaphors and purpose: an interview with Mike Nichols / Gavin Smith
  • City of angels / David Ansen and Marc Peyser
  • Elaine May in conversation with Mike Nichols / Mike Nichols
  • Elaine May salutes Mike Nichols at the AFI Life Achievement Award / Elaine May
  • Blind camels, idiot execs, and five other Ishtar revelations from director Elaine May / S. T. VanAirsdale
  • Who's afraid of Nichols and May? / Sam Kashner
  • A lovingly obsessive tribute to Mike Nichols, by Elaine May / Richard Brody
  • Additional interviews and profiles
  • Index.