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Elaine May (born April 21, 1932) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress. She achieved her greatest fame in the 1950s from her improvisational comedy routines in partnership with Mike Nichols. She is a two time Academy Award nominated screenwriter and also the mother of Oscar nominee Jeannie Berlin.
Elaine Berlin was born in Philadelphia in 1932, the daughter of the theatre director/actor Jack Berlin and his wife, Ida, an actress, who had a small role in May's film, A New Leaf. As a child, Elaine occasionally performed with her father in the Yiddish theater he ran. In 1942, the family moved to Los Angeles.
She married Marvin May in the late 1940s and gave birth to a daughter, actress-director-screenwriter Jeannie Berlin (who is known by her mother's maiden name) in 1949 at age 17; the couple later divorced. In 1962, she married lyricist Sheldon Harnick, best known for his work in Fiddler On The Roof. However, they divorced a year later when May became romantically involved with her psychoanalyst, Dr. David L. Rubinfine. May and Rubinfine remained married until his death in 1982, though they lived separately in later years.[citation needed]
[Lyrics by J.]
[Music by Elenium]
Freezing but burning from inside,
The carves that you left me never healed.
Around me is the world tonight,
Can not see it, tears fill my eyes.
Lonely steps I follow, this path is touching my heart.
Like Your Immortal Kiss, your forever hurting closesness.
Darkness that took you, takes me too!
(Greed in my heart send you fading away,
Away, why death took you? Just space,
Emptyness and despair;
Bring me back your immortal love!
Falling, falling eternally.
Your arms the paradise, I once felt,
Is now just a beautiful dream.
The steps are gone so are you.
Still through the utter darkness I'd travel,
For your tears, just to see them again!
Greed in my heart send you fading away,
Away why death took you?
So close you were and then gone,
You left me Your Immortal Kiss!
As the story ends I'll see your life, passing by my soul.The tears as you