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...driven, young Christiaan learned to study after hours, to win the mile race even though he had no money for track shoes and had to run barefoot, to take degrees in two years that normally took five. With apparent total recall, he reports childhood and adolescent conversations and the courtship of his first wife, a nurse at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital. "Our hands, which the night before had been pressed upon one another in love, now met and touched in sterile gloves...
Subber is quoted as saying that Nichols cast a real cab driver in the phone man's part in Barefoot in the Park and that the cab driver, Herb Edleman, became an actor as a result...
Surprisingly, only one resident has been bitten. Ten-year-old Gregory Doney was walking barefoot in front of his family's house early this month when he felt a searing pain in his right foot. He survived, but has not yet recovered the full...
What made it a smash hit, and far more than an expanded honeymooners skit, was the Nichols style: timing, vibrance and a slavish attention to detail. Nichols and failure became antonyms. Barefoot was followed by The Knack, Luv and The Odd Couple. The director came to resemble Somerset Maugham's nouveau novelist, Alroy Kear, who read that genius was an infinite capacity for taking pains. "If that was all, he must have told himself, he could be a genius like the rest...
...when Nichols called him one night to rage: "This theater is in total darkness!" One of the 30 lamps on the balcony rail was flickering. Saint Subber's marrow freezes when he remembers Nichols' insistence that The Odd Couple set be repainted 24 hours before opening. When he cast Barefoot, Nichols was even more demanding. "Mike insisted on getting a real telephone man or a taxicab driver to play the telephone man," recalls Subber. "I thought: this has to be a put-on. But I ended up getting a cab driver?and he is now an actor: Herb Edleman...