I forgot that it was him who did Silkwood actually, probably my favourite Meryl performance ever, she just vanishes into it so completely. Russell, Streep and Cher is such a great little gang.
The Mark Harris book sounds great; especially the stuff about Heartburn;
https://www.vulture.com/article/mike-nichols-a-life-mark-harris-excerpt.html
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 April 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
I had no idea -- silly me -- to what degree he remained a theater director.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 April 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
To learn that Silkwood (a) hit #1 (b) hit #1 in its sixth week of wide release is a peek into another world.
Heartburn is an odd bad film. The rhythms are slack as hell, the material's disgraceful (e.g. an early sequence in which members of the family take turns urging weepy Streep to leave her bedroom to get married), and the leads are miscast; yet it has a rumpled lived-in-ness with which Nichols has often succeeded (it's streaming on Prime).
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 April 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
Tried it a few months ago and gave up during the wedding.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 25 April 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link