tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post4553551956590889892..comments2024-03-28T20:00:20.542-07:00Comments on SHADOW OF A DOUBT: In Memoriam: Mike Nichols (1931-2014)Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-33505147986622617092018-10-20T14:11:58.523-07:002018-10-20T14:11:58.523-07:00I also saw Carnal Knowledge. Remember Edith Bunke...I also saw Carnal Knowledge. Remember Edith Bunker thinking it was a religious film entitled "Cardinal Knowledge"? :)Shady Del Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07887100141814372022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-78895763737479754972018-10-20T13:37:11.500-07:002018-10-20T13:37:11.500-07:00Shady, sorry I don't have more Nichols and May...Shady, sorry I don't have more Nichols and May clips to show you, but as you can see, they were all taken away (looking at this post for the first time in years, I see someone also took away the Carnal Knowledge trailer. I mean, c'mon, that's ADVERTISING-you'd think the copyright holders would at least want me to show that!) Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-66090438619257933562018-10-20T12:52:35.604-07:002018-10-20T12:52:35.604-07:00Hi, Kirk!
You and I won't even meet for three...Hi, Kirk!<br /><br />You and I won't even meet for three more years, but I just wanted to let you know that I appreciated this tribute. I watched the comedy sketches of Mike Nichols & Elaine May on TV many times in my youth. They were among my favorites. (I also loved Stiller and Meara.) I studied the film The Graduate in a mass media course at college. The prof required us to go to a theater and watch the film. I went to the first screening of the day and sat through the feature four or five times in a row, taking extensive notes. I aced the course.<br /><br />Have a good three years, Kirk, and I'll meet up with you sometime in 2017!Shady Del Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07887100141814372022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-49661986287964614152014-12-17T07:45:38.730-08:002014-12-17T07:45:38.730-08:00Thanks for the link, KassThanks for the link, KassKirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-44506964730174636942014-12-16T12:54:20.177-08:002014-12-16T12:54:20.177-08:00Another great article about Mike Nichols:/2014/12/...Another great article about Mike Nichols:<a href="http://www.americantheatre.org" rel="nofollow">/2014/12/16/remembering-mike-nichols</a>Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-4948478064995054072014-12-09T17:54:07.726-08:002014-12-09T17:54:07.726-08:00Did some research on May. She actually has done qu...Did some research on May. She actually has done quite a lot since the breakup including writing the screenplay for the Warren Beatty version of HEAVEN CAN WAIT.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-4536303283423006942014-12-06T14:21:08.716-08:002014-12-06T14:21:08.716-08:00Thank you, and keep up the righteous responses, Pa...Thank you, and keep up the righteous responses, Patricia. It's one of things that inspires me to do righteous posts!Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-86122370458762987552014-12-06T14:02:26.452-08:002014-12-06T14:02:26.452-08:00Kirk, righteous post on Niichols, what a great tal...Kirk, righteous post on Niichols, what a great talent. I was fortunate enough to see Spamalot in 2005, it was so clever. So many things I did not know about Mike Nichols and thanks for all the memories. Poor Dianne must be devastated.Patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885426575922045330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-61069622965697698242014-12-06T12:00:56.437-08:002014-12-06T12:00:56.437-08:00OK, I've come to expect this but just not this...OK, I've come to expect this but just not this soon. 4 of the 5 Nichols and May video clips have been yanked due to "a copyright claim by Hamilcar and Icarus" The latter is also the name of the mythical Greek dude who flew too close to the sun and fell to his doom, sometimes how I feel working on this blog. Since I make no money on this blog, and my intention in showing the clips was informative, i.e. to give you a better understanding of what Mike Nichols was all about, I feel they should have let me show them (assuming they were even yanked from this blog --it may have been from whoever posted them on YouTube in the first place), but I'm not a lawyer. All I got left is the cartoon beer commercial. I still want you to see an example of their comedy--the comedy where you see something other than drawings that move--so I suggest you Google "Nichols and May" and than click on "videos", and see some good examples of their act, albeit not the ones I originally provided. <br /><br />One final thought: They wouldn't have yanked the video if they didn't think they could still make a few bucks off Nichols and May, so that should be heartening for fans of this long-ago comedy team. <br /> Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-71503706000137726892014-12-06T10:55:18.755-08:002014-12-06T10:55:18.755-08:00No, I wasn't snowed in Parsnip. It's raini...No, I wasn't snowed in Parsnip. It's raining here.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-57313036407949385252014-12-06T09:43:25.995-08:002014-12-06T09:43:25.995-08:00OK, Now I am laughing.
You are so clever, never th...OK, Now I am laughing.<br />You are so clever, never thought about the Einstein hair !<br />Were you snowed in with fifteen feet of snow to dig out of ?<br /><br />cheers, parsnipangryparsniphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17236094827257446781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-82514228081362370502014-12-04T08:06:39.434-08:002014-12-04T08:06:39.434-08:00If that whooping cough shot hadn't screwed him...If that whooping cough shot hadn't screwed him up, parsnip, maybe Nichols would have ended up with Einstein's hair. It's all in the genes.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-90511382105807200542014-12-03T19:14:16.853-08:002014-12-03T19:14:16.853-08:00Oh My Goodness how could I not laugh, what a great...Oh My Goodness how could I not laugh, what a great post.<br />As I was reading this I had to go back to look at his hair and eyebrows.<br />I could believe more that he was a relative of Einstein more than he wore a hairpiece !<br />Why doesn't Captain Kirk know about this !<br />Elaine May's tribute was terrific I wish it was longer.<br /><br />cheers, parsnip angryparsniphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17236094827257446781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-34183636161868968882014-12-02T08:17:21.495-08:002014-12-02T08:17:21.495-08:00Elaine was great, too, Kass. I wish she had done m...Elaine was great, too, Kass. I wish she had done more after the break-up. Maybe she did, and I'm just not aware of it.Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-635884225797829085.post-71267333723388414692014-12-01T14:37:27.282-08:002014-12-01T14:37:27.282-08:00Oh...my.....gosh!.....That review was as entertain...Oh...my.....gosh!.....That review was as entertaining as the skits, plays and movies Mike was involved in I'm fortunate to be old enough to have seen several of their skits on live TV. I especially remember the telephone operator one where Elaine keeps repeating, "DI..um, please." Now I'm off to YouTube to see if it's there. Thanks for being so thorough. I never knew Mike was bald or of German extraction.Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.com