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john cassavetes and peter falk star in “mikey and nicky, ” a drama of friendship and betrayal .
the impeccably played mikey & nicky moves with such certainty and glory that it emerges as an underrated masterpiece .
when mikey and nicky are talking on the street after the fight, the sleeve of mikey' s jacket changes between being close to and far from his tie .
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“mikey and nicky” follows the friends as they wander in aimless desperation around a neon‐lit city, and as we learn eventually that mikey is, in fact, the finger, man .
[ video essay ] elaine may wrote and directed
mikey and nicky
( 1976) as a feminist think piece driven by her volatile male characters .
mikey and nicky finds two of the most inventive american actors of their generation riffing off of each other to provide a relatively thorough series of observations about the difficulties of male friendship .
the sense of dread that pervades mikey and nicky is almost unbearable. in this dog eat dog world, all women are portrayed as cognitively impaired bitches, violence is pervasive, and social relationships are physically and psychologically abusive .
later in the evening, mikey angrily accuses nicky of having nicknamed him “the echo” for always saying everything twice. but so do nicky and everyone else in the film. miss may used to write that kind of dialogue to be funny. this time she means to be serious but the method isn' t good enough .
nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mobster wants him killed. he calls mikey, his friend since childhood, but when mikey arrives ...
nicky (john cassavetes), convinced that his bosses have put out a contract on his life, summons mikey (peter falk) to his hideout in a fleabag hotel. nicky needs help. he' s scared out of his wits. he' s coming apart at the seams. he' s afraid of being murdered but his ulcer is killing him anyway. he isn' t sure he can trust mikey, but if he can' t trust mikey, he can' t trust anybody .
when mikey arrives at the hotel, nicky at first refuses to let him in, but then he relents. the two men embrace. they are in tears. they clutch each other. they laugh. they cry. they argue. they reconcile. mikey tries to be reasonable with his distraught friend .
elaine may' s first two films, “a new leaf’ and “the heartbreak kid, ” were comedies of sometimes inspired and often touching lunacy, mostly about, t: the uncertain progress of romantic love between men and women. her third film, “mikey and nicky, ” which opened yesterday at the little carnegie, issomthing else entirely .
nicky and mikey are not godfathers but godsons, family men who, like children, depend on the big boss, not merely for their livelihoods but for their lives. their fearful yet proud loyalty to the mob causes trouble at home. even when the men are alone together, their lives with women are in the foreground, and may shares the women’s perspectives throughout. at heart, the movie is a portrait of two marriages: nicky’s, to jan (joyce van patten), from whom he’s separated because of his carousing, and mikey’s, to annie (rose arrick), to whom he’s both deeply devoted and wantonly abrasive. both men take their frustrations out on a fragile woman, nellie (carol grace), nicky’s occasional lover, whom they treat with contempt and brutality—and who calls them on it .
when he hears that the mob have a contract out on him, smalltime hood nicky (john cassavetes) calls his old friend mikey (peter falk) and asks for help. the two go on the run, but cracks begin to appear in their friendship and it becomes apparent that one of them has betrayed the other. written and directed by elaine may .
it' s written and directed by elaine may but this feels like an auxiliary cassavettes film. somehow his gangster sagas are engaging no matter how slow they are. the friendship that mikey and nicky have is mined from the real life friendship of cassavettes and falk. and since we' ve already seen these two in films before it feels like yet another hangout a la husbands, albeit in a more purposeful and digestible form .
since they were kids, it’s always been the same: nicky (john cassavetes) gets in trouble, and mikey (peter falk) bails him out. this time, however, there’s a price on nicky’s head, so the guys have to keep on the move over the course of one night in the lower depths of philadelphia. it’s tempting to call this the best cassavetes movie that cassavetes didn’t make, but director elaine may brings a mordant humor all her own to this meeting of geniuses .
i would recommend that you by the region1 dvd of mikey & nicky. ; the us edition really has a restored print, not just says so on the cover. it' s in widescreen 1. 85: 1, has some interviews with the filmmakers, and a restoration documentary. the movie itself is one of the most original us movies from the seventies .
need proof the world isn' t as great as it used to be (in regards to movie - going options anyway)? at one point cassevetes as nicky gets the urge to go to the movies .
it' s after midnight, where are you going to go to the movies ?
peter falk' s mikey asks .
though we are told more than once that the cassavetes character is a charmer and that he has always treated his friends rottenly, including mikey, there' s no evidence in the performance that nicky is charming in any way. nor do we believe that mikey is a jerk, as he' s supposed to be. both ‘actors are, in fact, as interchangeable in their characters as are their character names. it' s significant, i think, that as i write this review i have to keep referring to my notes to remember which ‐actor which
nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. desperate, he calls mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. so begins a long night…
this movie also has a understated performance from the great william hickey. it may look like a cassavetes movie, but the dialogue is definitely elaine may. it has a great emotional arc, and has snappy dialogue. [ kinney ] is that him? [ mikey ] no. [ kinney ] hey, you sure? [ mikey ] yes i' m sure. you wanna shoot him just in case ?
elaine may began in second city where she formed a successful comedy team with mike nichols. she earned a drama desk award for her play adaptation; wrote, directed and performed in a new leaf; directed the heartbreak kid (the original); wrote and directed mikey & nicky and ishtar; received an oscar nomination for writing heaven can wait; reunited with nichols to write the birdcage and primary colors (a bafta - winner); and worked with producer julian schlossberg on six new york productions. she has done other things, but this is enough .
“mikey and nicky, ” which miss may wrote as well as directed, takes place in one approximately 12‐hour period. it involves a lot of self‐conscious exposition that never quite succeeds in telling us, all we have a decent right to know. it' s about a couple of small‐time los angeles hoods who' ve grown up together, joined the same mob and now, on this particular night, find their lifelong relationship passing in front of our eyes in aggressive close‐up .
3 1 / 2 out of 5 stars. mikey & nicky felt like a diet version of a cassavetes film. not necessarily a bad thing but for as great of a movie about friendship as this is, i almost (elaine may pulled this off) feel if cassavetes directed this himself it would' ve had more of a kick behind it. still raw at times (namely towards the powerful ending) cassavetes and falk are as always great together .
short portions of the film‐come to vivid life, especially toward the end. there' s a very funny, typically urban confrontation between mr. cassavetes and an officious’ lady on a bus who doesn' t want to start up with his “element, ” and a fine sequence in an all‐black bar whose patrons take mikey and nicky for white cops. not so good is a sequence in a neighborhood bar where miss may' s camera keeps panning across the great faces of the real‐life (i' m sure) customers as if she were showing us hinder temcarvings .
nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mobster wants him killed. he calls mikey, his friend since childhood, but when mikey arrives, nick won' t let him in: his moods swing. so begins a long night as mike tries to take care of nick, calm him down and get him out of town. their sojourn - on foot and in a city bus - takes them to a bar, a club, toward a movie theater, to the cemetery where nick' s mom is buried, and to nick' s girlfriend' s apartment. tempers fray and the friendship is tested. meanwhile, a hit man who' s getting information from someone is indeed looking for nick .
m1key and nicky, directed and written by elaine may; orocuced by micnael hausman: executive producer, bud austin; director of photography, victor j. kemper; editor, john carter; music, john strauss; distributed by paramount pictures. running time: 118 minutes. at the little carnegie theater, 57th street, east of seventh avenue. this film has been rated r :
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nickey (john cassavetes) is a small - time jewish gangster in trouble with the mob. he calls on his lifelong friend mikey (peter falk) for help. during the night the two spend together, the power of their friendship is undermined by their mutual nastiness and pressing financial concerns. elaine may' s script was allegedly taken from an episode in the life of her uncle .
is a professor of english and creative writing at the college of william and mary. she is the author of
there' s the all night place that shows double features. has the candy bar that stays open and serves ice cream sandwiches .
later when a hitman played by ned beatty goes looking for nicky at this theater, we see that it' s playing a kung fu movie. so you' re telling me that in 1973 philadelphia there was an all - night movie theater that had ice cream sandwiches and kung fu double features? get right out…
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perhaps the greatest
buddy film
ever. falk and cassavetes create characters of unforgettable depth and passion. outstanding .
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the script is a + + + and so funny, and of course cassavetes and falk rule. very fortunate to see this for the first time on the big screen on 35mm !
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, and coauthor with her husband, sam kashner, of books on oscar levant, george reeves, and the relationship between elizabeth taylor and richard burton. she lives in williamsburg, virginia .
mike nichols and elaine may recorded only three albums during their performing years, but their cool, dry, and exacting style remains enthralling .
starring john cassavetes and peter falk, as well as ned beatty, sanford meisner, joyce van patten, and m. emmet walsh .
, it' s 1970s cinematic male bonding at its most rueful. when doomed nicky visits his estranged wife (joyce van patten) and apologizes, saying
i went to work for you, not for me ,
he might be any businessman who grabbed for the brass ring and neglected his family in the process; later, when he goes into an all - night candy store and asks for the sweets he enjoyed as a boy, there' s the between - the - lines sadness of a man trying to regain the lost innocence of his youth. it' s an understated moment in a movie that sometimes verges on being over the top .
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cassavettes and falk together for two hours... need i say more ?
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an underrated little movie about small - time crooks and killers. cassavetes and falk are at their naturalistic best. a must for fans of gritty new york movies .
is illustrated with 170 photos from the actor' s private life and professional career .
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two low level hoods and childhood buddies spit philosophy in elaine may' s blackly comic and brutally honest genre turn, the penultimate film in her all too brief career as new hollywood auteur. cassavetes and falk play the odd couple who, over the course of an hour and three quarters, probe the frailty and hidden resentment at the heart of their floundering bromance. well deserves a place alongside' the killing of a chinese bookie' and' mean streets' in the annals of great unconventional gangster pictures of the' 70s
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. in other words, it has equal parts mid - life crisis and violent betrayal .
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the best film i have seen about male bonding, and its directed by a woman. the exchanges between cassavetes and falk felt so raw and real that i was pretty surprised when i heard this wasn' t improvised. while she is very sympathetic towards her characters, so much so that she treads the very fine line between sympathy and misogyny, her view of male bonding is far more bleak. whatever the love one has for each other, the sheer influence of money and power strangles both of them, which is why the final shot in the film remains very affecting and lingers long after the film is over .
this one stands out in elaine may' s mainly comical oeuvre as an intriguing drama about the fragility of friendship and the trust that' s linked to it. john cassavetes and peter falk, friends in real life, collaborated succesfully a couple of times before and succeeded in delivering a realistic tragedy of betrayal .
... it' s difficult not to admire the performances and may' s dialogue ...
a couple of lowlifes excavate their friendship and to that end whether they can ever overcome their own selfishness .
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and that’s what makes her such an interesting subject of study. in a hollywood even more male - dominated than today, may blazed her own short, highly erratic trail as a director and left four films: the compromised debut; the bittersweet hit; the neglected classic; and the notorious flop. let’s take a look .
, biographer and film historian scott eyman spoke with fonda' s widow and children as well as three of stewart' s children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men - - in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together. this is not another hollywood story, but a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary friendship that lasted through war, marriages, children, careers, and everything else .
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the duo’s rowdy, overheated friendship was forged in a painful childhood, memories of which are forced to the surface under mortal pressure, along with bitter grudges. their bromantic bonds are stretched by the frantic, conflict - riddled nighttime ramble. this yields a chaotic blend of comedy and horror, tenderness and brutality, self - revealing intimacy and brazen power plays .
may details her protagonists’ ugliness along with their reckless, depraved beauty. she captures her freewheeling, pugnacious actors—their street poetry and wild antics, their grim whispers and furious cries—with a loose intensity and an engaged but critical distance. cassavetes, his head down, his forehead like the prow of a near - wreck, and falk, with his canny nervousness, blaze a trail of trouble that, in its emotional extremes, distills a lifetime of frustrated energy into a single deadly night. ♦
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not a typical mob movie, they are more of a side story. the real story is basically shot like a case study of two friends. it was a good movie and it was nice to see peter falk in a different type role, since this was the columbo era. it shows a friend pushing his other to the breaking point through deceit and selfishness. it had very good acting and you could believe the bond between falk and casavetes. the end has a nice build up with a sudden but warranted end .
, and gave them the freedom to stray from the script where they saw fit. as with cassavetes' movies, some mistakenly think
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without placing it into the context of cassavetes' movies as a director. may cast him and falk, who had starred in cassavetes'
challenges audiences with its relentlessly raw and probing tale, and took a stylistic cue from the independent movies directed by one of its stars, john cassavetes. even in the director - friendly 1970s, may' s independent - minded production didn' t fly with the studio heads .
rather, she alluded to the production indirectly: “all this misplaced visual gloss doesn’t compensate for what’s missing: comic energy. ” in any case, she wasn’t alone, and she was far from the most negative; and may, lamentably, has never directed a movie again .
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this is one of those tricky films that was able to find the perfect balance between dangerous plotting, character based comedy, and genuine heart .
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was unscripted; the cast followed the script, but were allowed to go
off the page
and extend the scenes, as falk and cassavetes often did (may used multiple cameras set - ups to capture such moments). her movie feels pitched somewhere between the wounded masculinity of
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the unbeatable combination of john cassavetes and peter falk, this time both on the same side of the camera with elaine may in the director' s chair. written and directed by elaine may. starring john cassavetes, peter falk, ned beatty, rose arrick, carol grace, joyce van patten ...
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( 1954) - - was in many ways the anti - auteur. during his unprecedented twenty - seven - year tenure at warner bros. , he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, historical dramas, horror films, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. the director' s staggering output of 180 films surpasses that of the legendary john ford and exceeds the combined total of films directed by george cukor, victor fleming, and howard hawks .
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ugh, the only thought that comes up to my mind right now is: men. but that' s utterly stupid because i feel like i' m ignoring the fact that a woman wrote and directed this, and that me not liking the characters and not being able to connect with the story, or at least to put my subjectivity aside to appreciate it, says more about me than the actual film. anyway, not feeling this one but i' m not rating it .
got scant, blink - and - you' ll - miss - it theatrical play in 1976, with paramount merely satisfying its contractual obligations to release the movie. it later had a similarly spotty arthouse re - release in a may - shortened version during the late 1980s. now that version is out on dvd from home vision entertainment, replete with interviews with producer michael hausman and cinematographer victor j. kemper that speak copiously to may' s blend of cockamamie obsession and inspired artistic perfectionism .
scorsese' s career began in new york city at nyu where he made a series of short films. in 1968, he wrote and directed his debut feature ,
they got along famously, with a shared interest in elaborate practical jokes and model airplanes, among other things. fonda was a liberal democrat, stewart a conservative republican, but after one memorable blow - up over politics, they agreed never to discuss that subject again. fonda was a ladies' man who was married five times; stewart remained married to the same woman for forty - five years. both men volunteered during world war ii and were decorated for their service. when stewart returned home, still unmarried, he once again moved in with fonda, his wife, and his two children, jane and peter, who knew him as uncle jimmy .
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these actors cassavetes and falk are an excellent combo. the story is good has a great plot. the ending is not what you expect. i like this movie .
peter falk and john cassavetes are a pair of bar flies  with the former hired by an underworld boss (ned beatty) to lure the latter to his death .
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did, spent over 2 years editing, traded lawsuits with paramount and at one point was even accused of hiding cans of film from the studio. when the dust cleared ,
one in five americans have a disability, making it today' s largest minority, yet far too often their important and varied stories go untold... until now !
elaine, elaine, you crazy cook. fresh from my experience on a new leaf i just had to check out what else she had in store, and this doesn' t disappoint. elaine may lets the two fantastic leads just have at it, often letting camera (s, there were plenty of them, and cinematographers to boot) roll, in the hopes of catching improvised gold. it didn' t excactly help her standing with producers and studios, as budgets never really entered into her equations, it seems .
( 1955). like many pop crooners, damone was unmoored by the rise of rock - n - roll in the early 1960s, though he segued successfully into the casino circuit in the 1970s, where he remained active and in fine voice until his retirement following a stroke in 2001. though never a cultural institution like sinatra or nat
king
cole, vic damone' s rich baritone provided him with a slew of hits in the 1950s and a career on stage that compared with and even outlasted many of his contemporaries .
' s biographies on kay francis, virginia bruce, ann harding, ruth chatterton, george brent and sylvia sidney made the
best of the year
category in various publications .
elaine may... is a political filmmaker. one of the slipperiest, most allegorical films i' ve seen, from an era when those attributes were garden variety. out - conversations the conversation. these characters change face so regularly, identity is a misnomer. between this and ishtar, no one felt intrigue and the nihilism of human endeavor like may .
in philadelphia, a small - time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit - man who' s on his trail .
, ” said of may “elaine was too formidable, one of the most intelligent, beautiful, and witty women i had ever met. i hoped i would never see her again. ” )
really glad i gave this one a watch. the grittiest of 70' s gritty movies. everything was dirty and sweaty. every shirt collar was stretched out. i needed a shower after watching .
a common friend' s sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. but mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be... see full summary »
for over twenty years john ford and john wayne were a blockbuster hollywood team, turning out many of the finest western films ever made. their most productive years saw the release of one iconic film after another :
several supporting actors have i some good moments, including ned beatty, who plays the hired‐' murderer who worries about the cost of the gasoline he' s using up, and carol grace, who is superb as slightly dimwitted girlfriend of mr. cassavetes. what mr. , cassavetes and mr. falk do, though, exists beyond the fringe of film criticism. they just seem to be carrying. cinmaking elaborate actorish fusses—
two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the cia, the emir of ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime .
judged by a noted and diverse group of entertainment industry talent, films are not required to include disability in the storyline, but must include at least one person with a disability in front of or behind the camera .
the idea of the director of “ishtar” being worried about having her name attached to something that someone else “fucks up” may seem kind of paradoxical, but it’s oddly in line with what we can conclude about may’s style of filmmaking—as imperfect as the results may seem, may’s attitude was jealously perfectionist. almost all of her films had issues with creative control: may wanted more of it, the studio and the producers frequently wanted to give her less, and cost overruns and missed release dates were usually the result. but to give may her due, there’s no sense in which she owns her successes more than her failures—she may have subsequently voiced suspicions that producers on “ishtar” had a personal beef with beatty that contributed to their sabotaging its release, but her response to the derision and ignominy that greeted the film was as honest as it was final: she never directed another film .
. he has been awarded the william k. everson award for film history by the national board of review. he teaches film history at the university of miami and lives in west palm beach with his wife, lynn .
finally got back on my cassavetes kick with this film. well, admittedly this film isn' t actually written or directed by cassavetes but it stars him and peter falk and is very much in the same vein as his work so i included it in my viewing plans. quite good really although i was perhaps a little tired when i started which isn' t a great idea for these types of films. - 18 / 06 / 2008
three days into his miami honeymoon, new york jewish lenny meets tall, blonde kelly. this confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants kelly... see full summary »
considering the gross overextension of the shoot and the indulgence of the actors, ... it makes perfect sense that the movie feels like the result of a game of 52 pick - up rather than the realization of a design .
was something else entirely - a dark night of the soul suffered through by two philadelphia gangsters and lifelong friends, one of whom just may be helping their bosses carry out a hit on the other. unlike the comedies before it ,
no less a figure than frank sinatra once proclaimed singer vic damone as possessing the
best pipes in the business ,
which he parlayed into a popular recording career in the late 1940s and 1950s with such hits as
you' re breaking my heart ,
again
and
my heart cries for you ,
among many other lush romantic ballads. damone also enjoyed a secondary career as an actor, largely as lovestruck youth in such hollywood musicals as
for the annual, weekend - long competition, april 13 - 15. entry deadline: april 11, 2018. entrants are given 55 hours to write and produce a 3 - 5 minute short film based on an assigned genre .
thanks to terry teachout, at about last night, for his post linking to an effervescent time capsule: a 1960 appearance on “what’s my line? ” by mike nichols and elaine may, then a comedy duo and not yet movie directors. nichols’s directing career continues, if fitfully (his last movie was “charlie wilson’s war, ” from 2007); may’s, the greater, if briefer, career, was killed by a masterpiece, “ishtar, ” in 1987 .
( 1951). after scoring one more top 5 hit with
my truly truly fair
in 1951, damone was inducted into the army, where he served until 1953. mercury kept him in the spotlight during this period by releasing a steady string of material recorded by damone prior to his tour of duty, including the top 10 hits
here in my heart
( 1952) and
april in portugal
and
ebb tide ,
both in 1953 .
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henry graham lives the life of a playboy. when his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. so he intends to marry a rich woman and - murder her .
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i’ve already happily linked to online copies of two elaine may films on feature friday— the heartbreak kid (1972) and a new leaf (1971), both still up at youtube. now i’m happy to link to a third; i like elaine may that much .
a gentleman ,
he insisted .
to me the term implies artificiality - - a studied pose, and i' m damned if i' m artificial !
as the late robert osborne aptly stated ,
marshall' s personal story is a fascinating one .
this is one of my favorite films of all time. falk and cassavettes are incredible but elaine may deserves more respect then she gets for her work directing this. just because it' s nothing like her comedies i honestly think some people suppose cassavettes ghost - directed it or something .
rode also investigates curtiz' s dramatic personal life, discussing his enduring creative partnership with his wife, screenwriter bess meredyth, as well as his numerous affairs and children born of his extramarital relationships. his meticulously researched biography provides a nuanced understanding of one of the most talented filmmakers of hollywood' s golden age .
. ” in a vanity fair piece from earlier this year, the first substantial press interview the famously publicity - shy may has given since 1967, she implied that, far from it being a source of rancor, that’s kind of how she likes it: “you can make a deal if you’re going to do the original writing. but if you’re going to do the original re - writing, you can’t. no matter how much you write, what you write, you’re still a hired gun, and you have no control… the only time i really ever took credit was when i worked with mike… because i knew him, and i thought probably he won’t fuck it up. ”
mikey and nicky is a 1976 american film written and directed by elaine may and starring peter falk and john cassavetes . the supporting cast features ned beatty and noted acting teacher sanford meisner . 
mikey and nicky is a 1976 american film written and directed by elaine may and starring peter falk and john cassavetes. the supporting cast features ned beatty and noted acting teacher sanford meisner.
mikey and nicky is a 1976 american film written and directed by elaine may and starring peter falk and john cassavetes. the supporting cast features ned beatty and noted acting teacher sanford meisner.