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Authors and Artists for Young Adults on Nancy Meyers
Producer, director, and writer Nancy Meyers is best known for screenwriting collaborations with Charles Shyer, collaborations that resulted in films the couple often produced and directed as well. From their break-out hit with Private Benjamin, starring Goldie Hawn, to such light, screwball comedies as Irreconcilable Differences, Baby Boom, Father of the Bride, I Love Trouble, The Parent Trap, and What Women Want, Meyers seems to specialize in tales with a retro, America-mid-century feel to them. Reviewing The Parent Trap, Lisa Schwarzbaum noted in Entertainment Weekly that Meyers and Shyer, are "specialists in bedtime stories for divorce-prone boomers," while Kevin Thomas declared in the Los Angeles Times that Meyers and Shyer "are just about the wittiest film makers in Hollywood today [and] are endlessly inventive. They're not afraid to be sophisticated and screwballish in the best `30s tradition, and they know just how far to exaggerate for laughs without...
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