Sandy Dennis

I think they're all great.

I think Sandy Dennis is amazing.

I think Cher's amazing.

I think Kathy Bates is incredible.

Yeah.

I think the, I think one of the other things that this film does really well is this kind of like self delusion that these characters have.

And I think the personification via Sandy Dennis is just like, because we get these moments, obviously the film bounces back and forth in time, but, But we get these moments of arguments and then almost immediate resolution where they're so tied to go back to the status quo that they don't ever resolve anything.

but they don't ever let any sort of ill wind stay and, and allow them to resolve anything.

far.

So, yeah, Ralph Blumenthal for the New York Times at the time reported that other A-list celebrities were seeing it, such as EGOT receiver Mike Nichols, Oscar winners Sandy Dennis and Jack Nicholson, and writer Truman Capote.

You familiar with Mike Nichols? Yeah.

You would be, Dave.

We like that.

I was watching an old movie with Sandy Dennis and Anthony Newley.

I was wondering if you knew Newley and if you were a fan.

I mean, he wrote some pretty great songs in his...

Okay.

Out of 13 nominations, the movie won five, best actress for Elizabeth Taylor, best supporting actress for Sandy Dennis, best cinematography, black and white, best art direction, black and white, and best costume design, black and white.

And this was the last film to win in those black and white categories before those categories were combined because there was not as many black and white movies following.

I mean, just in general, there weren't as many black and white movies.

She's his wife.

The essence of Ivy League charm to students and friends who don't know them well.

George Segal, Sandy Dennis are the newcomers led by their charming host and hostess to the hell that hides behind those ivy-clad university walls.

All right.

I started talking to my actor friends.

I thought, "God, they're sort of interesting." And I began interviewing Sandy Dennis and Liz Ashley and Marian Seldes, all the actors I knew on Broadway at the time.

And they created a sensation because they were very honest, frank interviews, because nobody thought I'd get my stuff published.

My friends babbled to me without realizing that [laughs] I was taking everything down.

Okay.

Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno-

Yeah

...

... kind of thing there.

And the role that Len Cariou played as Nick, the guy that was gonna divorce his wife.

You got a hint of it when you saw Sandy Dennis and him in the same scenes.

There was a distance between them that didn't seem to be there with the other couples.

Yeah.

It was, like, people like s- Sandy Dennis, Kim Stanley, a lot of people like that, and I just...

They couldn't be my friends anymore.

That's all.