Telling the truth can be dangerous business.

Honest and popular, don't go hand in hand.

If you admit that you can play the accordion, no one will hire you in a rock and roll band.

Hello, my name is Justin the glue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today we're going to be talking about director, writer, actress Elaine May, famous for really only directing four films.

But famous also for other things that she did.

And for people that don't know, what she did was she was in a comedy team with Mike Nichols, famous director of

the graduate. Nichols and May, which ran I guess 57 to 61. And before we get into that, we just

want to let you guys know that we watched Ishtar and a New Leaf, her last and first movie. Well,

really, we watched all four of her movies. We watched a New Leaf,

Heartbreak Kid, Mikey and Nikki, and Ishtar. And by the way, I just want to say going forward,

we thought we were so clever picking this topic, Elaine May, but it turns out that our rival podcast

film spotting. Our rival podcast. That's right. We were in a dead heat on the iTunes charts with film spotting. Apparently,

they're also doing an Elaine May marathon right now. But we're beating them to the punch because

they're doing one per episode. And we're just going to do all four in 30 minutes. Who has the patience

for that? Yeah. So why has Elaine May only made four movies, Justin? It's very difficult to find

an exact reason. She is It's very difficult to find an exact reason.

She is very, very difficult to please.

She famously disown the cut of a new leaf, her first movie, because in its original version,

it ran three hours long, and she just kept editing it and editing it.

I'm not sure what the story is behind a heartbreak kid, which is one of the only movies that she claims credit on, and she just kept editing it and editing it. I'm not sure what the story is behind a heartbreak kid,

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