Word: nicholses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychological Substance. Nichols can be alternately Harlequin and Pantaloon, his crayon-blue eyes and round, astonished mouth suggesting that he finds the world just a little too much to cope with. Elaine is a dark-eyed Columbine of many moods who wears her immemorial, feminine wisdom a little uncomfortably, like...
As a team, they recall witty Broadway Writers (On the Town) Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who last year appeared in a highly successful show of their own material. But, more subtly, Nichols and May deal in slightly distorted reproductions of accurate sounds, and the effect, which depends upon audience...
Deflected Inquiries. Nichols, now 28, was born in Berlin of Russian-Jewish parents who fled the Nazis and settled in Manhattan, where his physician father set up practice. Acquiring his wholesome, lactic accents in a series of private schools, Mike went on to the University of Chicago as a pre...
Through all their success since those days, Mike and Elaine have almost conspiratorially managed to deflect inquiries into their private lives. ("I will tell you something," Elaine will say cooperatively, "but I warn you it is a lie.") Elaine has never remarried, and Mike is separated. Since neither makes any...
For all their individual characteristics, the only really extraordinary thing about Mike Nichols and Elaine May is their wit. They use that, too, to keep their lives to themselves. Since reporters are forever asking them for details about their offstage relationship, they have just devised an all-purpose answer. "We...