Biography mike nichols
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The first Broadway play I ever saw was a matinee performance of David Rabe’s Streamers, a shattering tale of masculinity, racism, and homophobia set during the Vietnam War that was playing at Lincoln Center in the summer of I walked out of that theater stunned and not sure what to do next, so I walked around the city for what must have been hours, trying to absorb what I had just seen.
That play was directed by Mike Nichols, a fact I had forgotten until this week, when I was reading Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press), Mark Harris’s fascinating, exhaustively researched, and utterly absorbing biography of the cultural polymath, someone who seemed to move effortlessly between the theater and the movies, conquering them both.
It turns out that Streamers came to Nichols at a critical point in both his career and his personal life. A star in his 20s, when he teamed up with Elaine May to create their now legendary comedy team; a wunderkind on Broadway, where he won Tony Awards fo
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Mike Nichols
American film and theatre director (–)
For other people named slang för mikrofon Nichols, see Mike Nichols (disambiguation).
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| Born | Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky ()November 6, Berlin, Germany |
| Died | November 19, () (aged&#;83) New York City, U.S. |
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| Alma&#;mater | University of Chicago |
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| Years&#;active | – |
| Spouses | Patricia Scott &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Margot Callas &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Annabel Davis-Goff &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Rachel Nichols (daughter-in-law) |
Mike Nichols (born Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky; November 6, – November 19, ) was an American bio and theatre director and comedian. He worked across a range of genres and had an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. He is
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&#;Mike Nichols: A Life&#; Biography Optioned By Producer Peter Spears, Eyes Feature Film
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Nomadland producer Peter Spears has optioned Mike Nichols: A Life, the biography of the director by Mark Harris, for development as a dramatic feature film.
The planned adaptation of the book, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, will not be a cradle-to-grave biography but instead will focus on a young Nichols as he journeys from Broadway to Hollywood to make his first film, &#;s Who&#;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, depicting his high-stakes collaboration with the film&#;s two married stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Spears will develop the film for his production company Cor Cordium. His other producing credits include the Oscar-winning Call Me by Your Name () and Bones and All () as well as On Swift Horses with Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Diego Calva and Will Poulter, which will open lat