Time Calls ‘Cut’

Peter Bogdanovich died today. He’s a figure that will be equally famous for what he didn’t achieve as what he did. The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon are masterpieces and still hold up today fifty years after they were made. But though ‘What’s up Doc’ is interesting and ‘Targets’ ahead of its time, there …

Life Isn’t Everything

Mike Nichols committed the unforgivable sin of never writing his memoirs. A man who seemed to be at the epicenter of American cultural life for more than five decades, who directed the all time classic The Graduate, as well as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Catch-22, Working Girl, Closer and many many more would have …