Mike Nichols and the American Century from Boston Review. The director made landmark contributions to three distinct art forms. His life reflected the American experience in the latter half of the twentieth century both its failures and its feats.
Afterlife fantasies from Dante’s
Divine Comedy to Pixar’s
Soul have always been a unique way to look at society. In this short series, I’ll be looking at the film tradition of afterlife fantasies, and discussing the recurring themes and imagery across a century of cinema.
Last time I set sail with
Outward Bound and
Between Two Worlds, two films that followed a group of souls on a journey between life and death. Today I’m wrestling with four interrelated films, three starring a personification of Death, and one starring…the Devil!
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Angel on My Shoulder, Heaven Can Wait, and
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LOS ANGELES Charles Grodin, best known for the neurotic comic wit he demonstrated in such films as “The Heartbreak Kid,” “Heaven Can Wait” and “Midnight Run” and for his role in the “Beethoven” movies, died Tuesday at his home in Connecticut. He was 86.
The New York Times reported that his son said he died of bone marrow cancer.
Charles Grodin, one of cinema’s most-accomplished comic actors and most-beloved curmudgeons has passed away at the age of 86.
A collaborator of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, Neil Simon and Buck Henry and the neurotic scene partner of Robert DeNiro in “Midnight Run,” Grodin’s career spanned six decades, and left its mark on classics of ’70s comedy and even the odd shaggy, slobbering dog story.
Born to Orthodox Jewish parents in Pittsburgh, Grodin studied acting with Lee Stasberg and Uta Hagen (While in classes, he questioned, to Hagen’s chagrin, why they had to “carry imaginary suitcases and open imaginary windows.”)