But nothing has materialized from either project. Circa 1999, again there was talk that she was doing something on the Supremes and this was mentioned briefly during her Oprah appearance that year. During one of her honors, they showed a bit of she and Rhonda walking through the Brewster Projects and I think it was from this project. In one of her tour programs, she says something like she "only touches on the past in relation to where I am today." So because she takes that perspective, we end up with profiles of her on E! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY or MATT LAUER'S HEADLINERS AND LEGENDS, and with no participation from her, although the latter did include her sister Rita.Ĭirca 1993, in the midst of her SECRETS OF A SPARROW blitz, Diana was supposed to be producing a mini-series on her career. But I don't think Diana is the type of person who looks back. And while it probably won’t be easy to catch them all, it’s worth making time for this last memorable Nichols-May collaboration.I would love for Diana to be profiled by AMERICAN MASTERS and while she is here to contribute to it. King, Carole King, Fats Domino, Loretta Lynn, Janis Joplin and The Highwaymen. The Nichols documentary kicks off another busy 30 th-anniversary season of the “American Masters” franchise, with films devoted to B.B. And it’s all garnished by snippets of interviews with the likes of Streep, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Alec Baldwin and Paul Simon, who more than anything convey a sense of how they genuinely treasured Nichols as well as the joy they derived from working with him. Nichols is such a gifted raconteur – and clearly so at ease with Schlossberg, who produced an earlier “American Masters” devoted to Nichols & May – that the hour flies by, offering fascinating insights about everything from a director’s role in the collaborative process to the alchemy of casting. And that’s giving relatively short shrift to his stage work with Neil Simon, directing “The Graduate,” what he learned from the perceived failure that was “Catch-22,” and a relationship with Meryl Streep – on “Silkwood” and later HBO’s “Angels in America” – that just talking about brings him to tears. After that, though, the special is a virtual who’s who of gaudy name-dropping, from how influenced he was by seeing Marlon Brando on stage in “A Streetcar Named Desire” to counsel received from Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan to assuring Jules Feiffer – the author of “Carnal Knowledge” – that a young actor named Jack Nicholson would become one of the signature talents of our time.
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