The Misfortune of Mike Nichols

By Frank Rich New Times July 11, 1975 When I was in California last summer, hanging around the old Selznick studio in Culver City where Mike Nichols was making The Fortune, I heard the word “wonderful” more times in ten days than I had heard it in my entire life....

The Marlboro Man

By Frank Rich New Times September 16, 1973 With his latest movie, The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman is once again asking for trouble—and once again there’s every reason to believe he’s going to get it. In the American film industry, this director is the ultimate...