'Closer' Takes Mike Nichols Back to Familiar Ground
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An inability to look at dead bodies  killed off Mike Nichols' hopes of training as psychiatrist 50  years ago but did nothing to diminish his fascination with  marriage, mating and the games people play.
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Previews begin Friday on  the Roundabout&#39;s revival of John Van Druten&#39;s &quot;Old  Acquaintance,&quot; best known today for the 1943 movie version that  famously pitted Bette Davis against her archrival Miriam  Hopkins.
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Proving that with solid  direction, tight writing and strong performances an American  remake actually can be as good as the foreign-language  original, "The Last Kiss," an unusually perceptive dramedy  about contemporary relationships, also manages to stand quite  capably on its own two feet.
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The cloistered community of American poetry has, in recent months, become a little less like Yeatsâs Land of Faery, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue, and a little more like Allen Ginsbergâs âHowl.â
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âNotes on Marie Menkenâ shines a welcome ray of light on a largely forgotten figure in the American avant-garde film scene.
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Last night, after the Bruins' 3-2 shootout win over the Washington Capitals, the chatter in the Verizon Center's visiting dressing room revolved around The Closer.
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Roma, 8 dicembre 2004 - Preparatevi alla Julia Roberts piÃ¹ spinta e trasgressiva che abbiate mai visto (anzi: sentito) : venerdÃ¬ 9 arriva sugli schermi italiani &#39;Closer&#39;, il film diretto da Mike Nichols (quello di &#39;Il laureato&#39;), e tratto dall&#39;omonima
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Tears fell at the New York State Theater for Kyra Nicholsâs farewell after 33 years with New York City Ballet, but there were fewer tears than flowers.
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Woody Allen's new film isn't what it might be, but it has interesting things to say about class and morality
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An inability to look at dead bodies killed off Mike Nichols' hopes of training as psychiatrist 50 years ago but did nothing to diminish his fascination with marriage, mating and the games people play.
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Just in time for the holidays comes another bilious family reunion: a revival of "The Homecoming," Harold Pinter's masterful, acid-etched portrait of a tyrannical father and his three sons, undone by a savvy, sexually aware woman.
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'Closer' is star-powered Oscar bait but the whole is not equal to the sum of its parts.
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The character of Alma Winemiller has resurfaced with a new authoritative calm in the Hartford StageÂs gentle, insightful revival of Tennessee WilliamsÂs ÂSummer and Smoke.Â
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Christopher Sieber, late of the Broadway editions of "Chicago," "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Into the Woods," is living the life that many New York actors once had in the theater but rarely do anymore: He closed Sunday in one show (the New York City Opera's production of "Cinderella" with Eartha Kitt, Dick Van Patten, Lea DeLaria, et al.) and now immediately jumps into another, playing Sir Galahad in Mike Nichols' "Monty Python's Spamalot," with Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce and Tim Curry, which prevues Dec. 21-Jan. 23 in Chicago before its Broadway opening at the Shubert on March 17.
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&quot;Closer,&quot; a deliciously nasty little item by the great Mike Nichols, would be a commanding and challenging adult movie no matter when it was made, but coming right now, during these culturally
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NEW YORK  &#151; Alessandra Ferri and Kyra Nichols, beloved ballerinas with more than a half-century of performing between them, are as different in style and temperament as they come.
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TOF 111: "Closer" and Hollywood's fear of erotic intimacy