AS MAN IS TO GOD: A Poem On the Making of Werner Herzog's FITZCARRALDO
As Man Is To God is a single meditative poem on the difficult filming of Werner Herzog’s 1982 masterpiece of obstinacy Fitzcarraldo, from a writer who knows something about persistence.
Author Andrew Nicholls began as a songwriter, forming the Toronto band Nobby Clegg and the Civilians with co-writer Darrell Vickers, after the radio success of their grim home-recorded single My Old Man. The team wrote for sitcoms and radio in Canada, and had twelve one-act plays produced, before moving to Hollywood in their twenties to work in television. They staffed Don Adams’ sitcom Check It Out, and wrote for Love Boat and for Joan Rivers, Rodney Dangerfield and George Carlin before landing on NBC’s Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, where they became head writers in 1988, earning four Emmy nominations.
As Man Is To God is a single meditative poem on the difficult filming of Werner Herzog’s 1982 masterpiece of obstinacy Fitzcarraldo, from a writer who knows something about persistence.
Author Andrew Nicholls began as a songwriter, forming the Toronto band Nobby Clegg and the Civilians with co-writer Darrell Vickers, after the radio success of their grim home-recorded single My Old Man. The team wrote for sitcoms and radio in Canada, and had twelve one-act plays produced, before moving to Hollywood in their twenties to work in television. They staffed Don Adams’ sitcom Check It Out, and wrote for Love Boat and for Joan Rivers, Rodney Dangerfield and George Carlin before landing on NBC’s Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, where they became head writers in 1988, earning four Emmy nominations.
As Man Is To God is a single meditative poem on the difficult filming of Werner Herzog’s 1982 masterpiece of obstinacy Fitzcarraldo, from a writer who knows something about persistence.
Author Andrew Nicholls began as a songwriter, forming the Toronto band Nobby Clegg and the Civilians with co-writer Darrell Vickers, after the radio success of their grim home-recorded single My Old Man. The team wrote for sitcoms and radio in Canada, and had twelve one-act plays produced, before moving to Hollywood in their twenties to work in television. They staffed Don Adams’ sitcom Check It Out, and wrote for Love Boat and for Joan Rivers, Rodney Dangerfield and George Carlin before landing on NBC’s Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, where they became head writers in 1988, earning four Emmy nominations.