Show a The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday ONE BIG HAPPY Moviemaking boils down to reconciliation for Mike Nichols CATHY HNY DEDUCTIONS THIS VEM RUt THE EXTRA WOMEN INCUR ID DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR THE TWENTY DIFFERENT WIA6CS WE’RE ANY WRITE-OFF- UNPAID FOR THE S Time women EXPENSES CREATM TIMM N (TROUT SUPPOSED ALLOWANCES WHATSOEVER FOR THE FACT THAT ANY spcno RELATIONSHIPS WHICH THERfD BE NO FAMILY VALUES BECAUSE NATION WOULD ID A HALT IF IT HEREHTT FOR THE UNOCR- OUR UNCLE SAM THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS AN AUNT SAMANTHA FOAACT WHAT SCACEGH NEW YORK (AP) — For Mike Nichols it all basically boils dawn to one thing: reconciliation He says he made his latest film “The Birdcage” because he considers the story one rtf the great all-tifarces — with an exceptional ending to boot “Some of the world’s greatest comedies just stop at the end” he says More importantly though he says it’s a tale of reconciliation Which is why he’s offering moviegoers an updated Americanized version of the popular 1978 French-Italia- n film “La Cage aux Follcs” which was adapted into a successful Broadway musical “Reconciliation is the thing that interests me where I’ve come to in my life and the thing I wanted to make a movie about and this seemed like the director-producideal vehicle” says the Aim’s er TO MAINTAIN? Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin Nichols came to this country at age 7 with part of his family to escape Nazi persecution He could say just two things in English then: “I don't speak English” and “Please don’t kiss me” Now the man who first rose to prominence with the sharp comedy duels he performed with Elaine May speaks in polysyllables and whole paragraphs And on this day his main focus is what he sees as the nation’s only hope “The left snd the right have to reconcile” he APohoio Mike Nichols truth because it happened Because you can control neither one And neither orgasm nor laugh can come out of correctness or politics or anything except some deeper part of you saying ‘Yes Right That's true’ ” Yet he sees hypocrisy in public discussions “I think the distance between what people actually believe and what they feel they can say publicly is increasing So that everything is said in code maintains “The right attacks the left The left Nobody says anything openly Never say somebody’s Jewish You say they're members of the attacks the left Everybody attacks the left” But everybody — parents and children gays and Eastern liberal establishment That means Jewish" Pulling out the last cigarette in his pack which he’s willing to share with a fellow bereft smoker — “treat it like a joint” he suggests — Nichols says the storyline in “The Birdcage" about a homosexual couple trying to impress their son’s future inlaws serves to bridge such chasms He talks about how much both couples — the straight uptight couple played by Gene Hackman and Dianne Wicst and the homosexual pairing of Robin Williams and Nathan Lane — are lovable “Every laugh from the audience affirms that Because the secret of this film is that it’s not about gay people at all it’s about families" For him personally Nichols says “the crucial reconciliation” in making the film involved Elaine May who wrote the screenplay Even though she for him in the has done a lot of past this was the first time in years they worked together full time straights blacks and whites and Hispanics — should dispense with the attacks says NiKnots “That’s our charter That’s the whole idea of this country Discussion Dialectic reconciliation “Something very strange has happened to the idea of democracy which started out with the Greeks and a reverence for public discussion and questions above answers Now all public discourse is nonsense The only meaningful discourse is private mostly secret It’s like ‘Jeopardy There are no questions there are only answers" “But that was the idea that you should be able to ask as many questions as possible and discuss them openly So anything that moves us toward that is a good thing” And comedy is something that moves people toward constructive communication he says The foremost reason he cites: “A lauph is like an orgasm — it has no politics By definition it’s the HAGAR THE HORRIBLE PEANUTS SOMETIMES IF YOU STARE TMFBAflePOOR AT wvmXM SOMETIMES TOUR 5UPPER C0ME5 OUT EARfV? If WORKS AND woman in the movie “Mrs Winterbourne” a romantic comedy due out later this month NEW YORK (AP) — “Show’’ girls the criti- between 130 and 140 said in the April 13 issue of People maga- Lake 27 who now weighs zine that playing pregnant was rood practice because she and husband Rob Sussman want to cally panned stripper movie starring Eliza- ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO IT EVERY NlfclJV ' have a baby soon beth Berkley is & making a comeback of sorts flop about an ambitious Las Vegas dancer is on the midnight being “Rocky Horror Picture Show" Stallone Stallone pocketed WITH THE 6W5 to prove wer HE COOP LICK AN0MANIN - THE HOUSE 6 FOXTROT NEW YORK (AP) — Ricki Lake who has shed more than 100 pounds over the years may be ready to put some of that weight back on to have a baby Lake who once weighed 260 pounds saw shades of her former self when she played a pregnant iWlnatbrldgs who $20 sprees In addition to his nationally ed as Hollywood's most overpaid actor in an Entertainment Weekly study comparing movie star pay with box-offireceipts It said Stallone should be making only about $82 million a picture On the flip side Morgan Freeman is the most underpaid star ce Freeman who has turned in riveting performances in hits $ IX vJ ' in a 1932 That is applicable to bridge — and doubly so to this deal — except that if you make the contract you will presumably feel ' REAL LIFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME wins with the ace and returns the "These diamond nine Over to you unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the lop down" f ' leads the diamond queen East said lives” fVl A happy Against four hearts West Franklin Roosevelt syndicated comic strip which began in 1970 Trudeau has also written books two musicals and several television specials “Garry is truly brilliant” said managing editor Walter Isaacson “He has helped define our era provoked us to laugh about our pretensions and think about our Av By Phillip Alder radio address $20 mflllQJilJic'inak'es per assignment: Tom Hanks an essay on yuppie buying and “Judge Drcdd” was list- I Playing pregnant good practice for Lake isn’t million for bombs like “Assassins’ favorite lines SKIWWEMTOrtl jo Prize-winni- dancers and shout out their KlOSMEFACe per movie the study said The study found there is only one actor worth the $13 million Triideau is bringing his written opinions to Time magazine creThe Pulitzer ator of “Dooncsbury” has joined Time as a regular contributor He debuts in the April 13 issue with at the box office Angeles Audiences some in drag toss fake money at the celluloid lap MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM “Unfotgiv-en- ” is only earning $6 million per movie He should be commanding at least $114 million NEW YORK (AP) — Garry NEW YORK (AP) — Sylvester circuit in New York and Los such as “Seven” and Garry Trudeau joins Time magazine Freeman named most underpaid star NC-17-rat- ed ng script-doctori- ‘Showgirls' making a comeback of sorts The tGta&a- 1996 -- r Page 21 April 10 Note that three no-tra- despite the is lay-do- nine-car- d fit Will anyone ever major-su- it come up with a dependable directive for when to play in the suit — which and when in no-tru- works without looking at both hands? 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