Arthur Ashe

June, 1969

These days, Buck Henry enters laughing. In the wake of The Graduate--which he scripted--he suddenly became one of Hollywood's hottest screenwriters. "The Graduate," he says, "was one long ball to work on. Mike Nichols is a hell of a director." Candy, Henry's next effort as scenarist, was a different story, however. "I was writing the film as it was being shot," the New York-born writer recalls. "I was also writing to accommodate actors who would suddenly appear...