When it comes to comedy duos, it’s hard to find a cooler one than Nichols and May. In fact, what do other comedy teams have on these two? Abbott and Costello? Hacks. Cheech and Chong? Junkies. Flight ...

At the house where my grandparents have lived for more than sixty years, in Marin County, looking down onto the marshes of San Francisco Bay, there is a storage closet filled with vases, Duraflame ...

“She’s not like other people,” Mike Nichols tells Sam Kashner in an e-mail, when the Vanity Fair contributing editor proposes a joint interview with Elaine May. “As you know, she ignores publicity—but ...