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	American Masters . Elaine May \| PBS
		May was born in 1932 in Philadelphia, the daughter of the director, writer, and principal actor of a traveling Jewish theatrical company.
		Nichols and May spent much of the next three years traveling the country performing together on stage, radio, and television.
		THE BIRD CAGE, written by May and directed by Nichols was a triumphant return and one of the funniest movies of 1996.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/may_e.html (560 words)

	ELAINE'S MAY DAY PAGE
		The went a-maying on May Day Eve into the woods and returned at dawn on May Day, carrying green boughs of branches freshly bursting into leaf, as tokens that they had identified themselves with the revival of nature that was happening all around them.
		The May Queen, sometimes accompanied the children and there garlands of flowers, she was crowned with blossoming hawthorn.
		The May Queen in the past, also shared the limelight with a May King, but he was lost along the way many many years ago.
	homepages.tesco.net /~derek.berger/holidays/mayday.html (1142 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Elaine May
		From performances in college and cabaret clubs, Nichols and May went on to become one of the most successful comedy duos of the day, appearing on all the major TV entertainment shows and on Broadway for a year-long, sold-out engagement in 1960.
		May was one of the first women to pioneer an inroad into Hollywood's bastion of male directors.
		For such work, she has earned a reputation as "one of the legendary script doctors in the business." Critics also applaud the cohesiveness of her scripts, the natural flow of her dialogue, and her keen insight into the foibles of human behavior and the problems of contemporary society—topped by a vision both generous and optimistic.
	www.lectures.org /may.html (718 words)

	Elaine May - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elaine May (born Elaine Berlin April 21, circa 1932) is a U.S. writer, movie director, and performer.
		Together with Mike Nichols, she founded the trail-blazing comic troupe The Compass Players, which later became The Second City.
		Largely shot on location in the Middle East, the production was beset by internal difficulties, and advance publicity was so terrible that the picture never got off the ground, becoming one of the biggest cinematic failures of its day.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elaine_May (254 words)

	Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
		It's not written or directed by John Cassavetes, but Elaine May's eclectic portrait of two petty, middle-aged goodfellas on the streets of Philadelphia is electrified by the same nervous energy and volatile personalities of Cassavetes's best work.
		May takes her low-budget picture to the streets and lets friends and former collaborators Cassavetes and Falk hit their shaggy rhythm while she peels back their sneering bravado to find sad, scared, vulnerable men underneath.
		It was a down-and-dirty shoot for May, whose rush can be seen in momentary glimpses of her crew in a few shots and overhead lights sometimes dipping into the frame, but that same on-the-fly drive gives the film its edgy, restless energy.
	johnkeyes.com /a/0764004247-mikey-and-nicky.html (693 words)

	Mikey and Nicky DVD at Video Universe
		Elaine May's tense, well-paced thriller is her third film, and one of her most innovative.
		May missed the film's delivery date by almost a year because of her well-known perfectionism in the editing process.
		May originally cast Paramount president Frank Yablans as a gangster, but the chairman of parent company Gulf + Western, Charles Bluhdorn, was not amused, and demanded she recast.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/6793317/a/Mikey+and+Nicky.htm (749 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Elaine May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		May later went on to study method acting under the tutelage of actress Maria Ouspenskaya before relocating to the Midwest to attend the University of Chicago; there she first encountered fellow student Mike Nichols, harshly criticizing his performance in a production of Miss Julie.
		A four-year gap followed before May resurfaced as the writer-director behind Mikey and Nicky, a freewheeling comedy starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk.
		Again, however, despite her success, May disappeared from view; she did not return to cinema for nine years, and when she did, the results were disastrous.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/90015/bio.jhtml (564 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Night' is three vignettes too many (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		NEW YORK — Reviewing Elaine May's frisky off-Broadway play Adult Entertainment a few years ago, I wrote that the comedy veteran had "clearly recovered" from the malaise that hung over her previous Broadway outing, 2000's Matthew Broderick/Parker Posey vehicle Taller Than a Dwarf.
		May's point, that baby boomers and younger folks are more apt to stare at their navels and whine than previous generations, is valid, but it has been made many times before, more astutely and amusingly.
		I gleaned that May was attempting to make a joke about how intimacy issues can complicate even casual encounters, but I lost interest around the time the women started taking their clothes off and singing — I kid you not —That's What Friends Are For.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/reviews/2005-06-02-after-the-night_x.htm (526 words)

	Elaine May @ Filmbug
		Elaine May is perhaps best known for her work behind the camera.
		May began her career with the comedy troupe Second City, where she first met Mike Nichols.
		May is the recipient of a Drama Desk Award for her one-act play Adaptation, which she directed along with Terrence McNally's Next.
	www.filmbug.com /db/35401 (273 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Elaine May
		His great specialty during his '60s-'70s heyday was erotic anxiety, and it's also what he and sketch partner Elaine May conveyed so brilliantly in their comedy act.
		Elaine May's new work, After the Night and the Music, will make its world premiere at Broadway's Biltmore Theatre in spring 2005 in a Manhattan Theatre Club staging.
		He started his career in the sketch troupe Skippy's Rangers and has always had an admiration for comedy that is driven by careful character observation, the kind of humour epitomized by the 1960s comedy of Elaine May and Mike Nichols.
	authors.surfwax.com /files/Elaine_May_Book.html (1343 words)

	Elaine May - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		You will be shown all Plays in print by Elaine May.
		This is a contest, played like Parcheesi, in which the contestant advances or is sent back through the seven ages of man. The Author has written a parody of life with such incisiveness that it becomes like Swift in its barbs.
		What's more, a quartet consisting of the games master, the male players and the female players assist the incomparable contestant from "mewling infant" to "second childishness and mere oblivion." Incident after incident makes you laugh and suddenly makes you stop and think that maybe you're laughing at yourself.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsM/MayElaine.htm (272 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: An Evening With Mike Nichols And Elaine May (Original Cast Recording) [CAST RECORDING] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By the time An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May opened on Broadway in late 1960, the satirical Chicago duo was already the toast of the comedy world.
		This is Nichols and May at their zaniest: the desperate man arguing with the officious telephone operator ("That is Kaplan, K as in knife...") or the NASA scientist being lectured by his mother ("I read in the paper where you keep losing them.")
		I was going to say Nichols usually plays (relatively) straight man to May's loopy characters, but both of them really do get to show off their sense of creativity and humor in the odd ways that seemingly normal people interact.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007Q8O?v=glance (967 words)

	Playbill News: Elaine May's After the Night and the Music Closes July 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Elaine May began in The Second City where she formed a successful partnership with Mike Nichols.
		More than most working playwrights, May has had success in getting stagings for her one-acts—a form generally thought to be uncommercial by producers.
		Berlin is the deadpan-funny actress daughter of May, who appeared in her mother's Off-Broadway comedy, Adult Entertainment.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/93794.html (911 words)

	Elaine May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born Elaine Berlin in Philadelphia, PA; educated at the Playwrights Theatre, Chicago.
		Former cabaret performer whose comic partnership with Mike Nichols culminated in their own Broadway showcase, An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May (1960).
		May is the daughter of Yiddish theater director Jack Berlin and mother of actress Jeannie Berlin.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho6/may_e.htm (189 words)

	Lady Elaine: May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There is a lot of juicy gossip out there about all this, but I wouldn't feel right repeating any of it.
		I have lost eight inches since March 15: 2 1/2 from my waist, 1 from each thigh, 1 from my hips, 1 1/2 from my bust, 1/2 from each calf.
		She got very interested...I told her the Tae Bo diet is where you eat and drink whatever want (within reason) and do an hour of advanced Tae Bo five days a week.
	ladyelaine.blogspot.com /2004_05_01_ladyelaine_archive.html (1237 words)

	MIKE NICHOLS AND ELAINE MAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While performing in comedy clubs and radio with the Freefall Iguanas sketch troupe, I brought Nichols and May to the attention of fellow Iguana, Karen Taylor. She instantly fell in love with them. Covetous, jealous and illicit love.
		Karen worked for several years directing and performing with the Freefall Iguanas at the Comedy Nest and on CIQC and CJAD radio. She is also the producer of the show, so she is very grateful that she consented to come and work for herself.
		Terry is a local writer and performer who was a staple of the Freefall Iguanas sketch troupe, and who stole and adapted this wonderful material from the great Nichols and May. He is both proud, and very, very sorry.
	withoutnm.ca (390 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Mike Nichols and Elaine May
		Along with Lenny Bruce and other "satirists" who emerged during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May made a major impact on the development of modern American comedy.
		Nichols and May began working together in 1955 as members of The Compass Players, a Chicago-based improvisational theater troupe.
		Nichols and May later pursued successful individual careers in the theater and in motion pictures.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200891 (281 words)

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	AllRefer.com - Mike Nichols (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1939, and he studied (1950–53) at the Univ. of Chicago.
		A founder of The Second City, the comedic and improvisational group, he and fellow member Elaine May formed a satiric duo (1957–61) and scored a Broadway hit in 1960.
		Nichols debuted as a director with the Broadway production of Barefoot in the Park (1963) and since then he has been a phenomenally successful stage and screen director, renowned for his intelligence and his ability to draw the best from his actors.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NicholsM.html (359 words)

	Mike Nichols & Elaine May MP3 Downloads - Mike Nichols & Elaine May Music Downloads - Mike Nichols & Elaine May Music ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the wake of Shelly Berman's successful sit-down-on-a-stool vignettes, it was inevitable that a male/female duo would emerge from the pack mining similar turf and the team of Nichols and May embodied it perfectly.
		Eventually splitting up by the early '60s, Elaine May became involved with the Broadway theatre crowd...
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	www.mp3.com /mike-nichols-&-elaine-may/artists/178/summary.html (182 words)

	Elaine May Forum @ Filmbug
		I'm a young actor who only recently became aware of Elaine May because I have been given a class project to do on the above play.
		By the way, I have seen "A New Leaf" which I really enjoyed and do intended to see some of her other films.
		Although I thought LUV a very good movie one of my all time favourites is 'A NEW LEAF' I've watched it many times and it's always one movie I highly recommend to anyone who'll listen to me. Elaine May, always one of my favourites.
	www.filmbug.com /db/35401-8 (203 words)

	Online DVD Rental (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lance Barton is a hip, smart talking New York bike courier and amateur stand-up comedian - but his bike has just had a run in with a semi trailer.
		A sports oriented fantasy in which Beatty, who is summoned to heaven ahead of schedule, is returned to earth in another man's body.
		However, when her wish comes true, she must rescue him by going through the forbidding passages of the labyrinth to reach the...
	www.homescreen.com.au /search/Writers/Elaine%20May (319 words)

	Playbill Biography: ELAINE MAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ELAINE MAY (Playwright) began in Second City, where she formed a successful partnership with Mike Nichols.
		May earned a Drama Desk Award for her play Adaptation, a one-act which she directed along with Terrence McNally’s Next.
		May’s acting credits in film include California Suite, Enter Laughing and In the Spirit.
	www.playbill.com /celebritybuzz/whoswho/biography/12142 (283 words)

	Elaine May picture from the movie - Elaine May movie stills - Elaine May pics
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	Playbill News: Elaine May Triptych After the Night and the Music Opens on Broadway June 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Elaine May Triptych After the Night and the Music Opens on Broadway June 1
		The actors dance, strip and kvetch in After the Night and the Music, the new trio of one-acts from writer Elaine May which opens at Manhattan Theatre Club's Biltmore Theatre June 1, after previews from April 28.
		A few years later, director Arthur Penn cast her in "Alice's Restaurant." She co-starred with Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd in the Neil Simon hit "The Heartbreak Kid," directed by Elaine May, for which Berlin won the New York Film Critics' Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for an Academy Award.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/93238.html (1041 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Mike Nichols & Elaine May Examine Doctors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There's a telling track on this 1962 reissue called "Nichols and May at Work." It's four unedited minutes of the improv duo cracking each other up to the point where they can barely speak.
		It's pretty funny even if you're not in on the joke--which is simply that producer Bud Drake suggested they do a bit about doctors.
		Strangely enough, I think that the most hilarious thing on this CD is "Nichols and May at Work", which is a studio session done by the duo that gives you insight on how these sketches are constructed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007Q8P?v=glance (549 words)

	DigiGuide : Elaine May
		When is 'Elaine May' on TV Programmes in the DigiGuide Library that star Elaine May
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		Find out more on Elaine May at the Internet Movie Database
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	Elaine May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This comic performer, writer and director came out of the Yiddish Theater, where her father Jack Berlin was a prominent director.
		As a child, Elaine May acted on stage and in radio productions, some directed by her father.
		Nichols and May teamed up as a successful comic duo, performed in prominent NYC cabarets (The Village Vanguard, The Blue Angel) and eventually made their way to Broadway with "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May" (1960), directed by Arthur Penn....
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	321 -> Music, Music, Music: In Retrospect by Mike Nichols & Elaine May \| Order now @ 321-music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Retrospect by Mike Nichols & Elaine May
		In Retrospect ~ Mike Nichols & Elaine May
		Listen to the sound of tradition breaking, as Nichols and May use improvisation to turn the world of sketch inside out.
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