1. Want to know where the post-war American counterculture started? In a small cafe in Chicago with Mike Nichols and Elaine May on stage.
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2. We don't think of Chicago (a square-shouldered, pragmatic city) as epicenter of bohemianism but something was happening in there in 1950s
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3. It was the heydey of the University of Chicago as an egghead hothouse, overloaded with baby-faced brainiacs (Susan Sontag, for one).
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4. Freud was in the air & a general dissatisfaction with the conformist mainstream. Hefner was starting up his version of sexual liberation
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5. Out out the ambiance of Chicago beat-dom, Nichols & May crafted a new comedic sensibility: neurotic, confessional, relationship-obsessed
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7. As they forged a new type of inter-personal comedy on stage, the young Philip Roth was in the audience. He was paying attention.
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8. Nichols & May didn't do it alone. They were part of a cohort: Lenny Bruce, Jules Feiffer, Woody Allen, Second City, many more.
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9. Seeds were planted in The Compass Bar. The seeds grew up into Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, Zap Comix, National Lampoon, SNL.
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10. Nichols and May would break up. They'd each go on to have very distinguished careers. But it all started in The Compass Bar. RIP.
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@HeerJeet Love this valentine to May: "You can't carry yourself across a room. Physically impossible!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S14TwwfdfMM …0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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