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...Anne Bancroft and Arthur Penn were inspired. The famed actress and director had just finished work on The Miracle Worker, a film based on the true story of Helen Keller...
...Bancroft Press...
...idea so commercially shrewd and creatively dubious that you naturally assume it came from an American. But it was British playwright and director Terry Johnson (Dead Funny; Hysteria) who decided to take Mike Nichols' 1967 film The Graduate and put it onstage. With Kathleen Turner re-creating Anne Bancroft's role as Mrs. Robinson, the show weathered mixed reviews to become a box-office hit in London. Now it has come to Broadway, with Turner joined by a couple of young Hollywood stars, Jason Biggs and Alicia Silverstone. The show serves up the familiar story of a directionless college grad...
...HERBERT ROSS, 74, choreographer turned film director who collaborated with Neil Simon on five films; in New York City. He jump-started the career of Barbra Streisand in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale and, in 1977, got Oscar-nominated performances out of Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine in Turning Point and Marsha Mason in The Goodbye Girl...
Though he has played drums since age 9, Brooks has little musical training. Yet he had written songs for most of his movies, and he got a major nudge from his wife Anne Bancroft. "She always loved my songs," he says. "She thought it was a really big part of my work that was not cultivated. She said, 'You have to write this score. It's your next great challenge. It will keep you young...