>        I've been so anxious about the new version of Frankenstein

>Kenneth Branaugh is doing, that I was completely

>surprised by the opening of Wolf.  I'm not sure of the history of the

>wolf man story, did it come from a text originally, like Dracula and

>Frankenstein?  Or a movie?  How about the role of the female?  Michele

>Pheiffer was one tough lady.  And, a burning question that perhaps I

>should present to another forum.  Am I dreaming when I remember a comic

>couple "Mike Nichols and Elaine May" and could they possiblely be the

>"Mike Nichols and Elaine May" of Wolf?

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I don't recall seeing Elaine May's name in the credits (they haven't really

worked together for years) but it is the same Mike Nichols.  May did

ISHTAR, by the way--a dog rather than a wolf.

 

Richard J. Leskosky

Unit for Cinema Studies, UIUC

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