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100 1  Harris, Mark,|d1963-|eauthor. 
245 10 Mike Nichols :|ba life /|cMark Harris. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021   
300    xiii, 673 pages, [32] unnumberered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
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504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [601]-650) and 
       index. 
505 2  Part One. What It Was Really Like -- Part Two. What 
       Happened Next. 
520    "A magnificent biography of one of the most protean 
       creative forces in American entertainment history, a life 
       of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the 
       worst largely unknown until now--by the acclaimed author 
       of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back. Mike 
       Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind without 
       parallel: while still in his 20's, he was half of a 
       lucrative hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk
       of the country. Next he directed four hit Broadway plays, 
       picking up the Best Director Tony for three of them, and 
       by his mid-30's the first two films he directed, Who's 
       Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Graduate, were the 
       highest-grossing movies of 1966 and 1967 respectively, and
       The Graduate had won him an Oscar for Best Director. Well 
       before his 40th birthday, Nichols lived in a sprawling 
       penthouse on Central Park West, drove a Rolls Royce, 
       collected Arabian horses, and counted the likes of 
       Jacqueline Kennedy, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Avedon and 
       the Aga Khan as good friends. Where he had arrived is even
       more astonishing given where he began: born Igor 
       Peschkowsky to a Jewish couple in Berlin in 1931, he and 
       his younger brother were sent alone to America on a ship 
       in 1939. Their father, who had gone ahead to find work, 
       was waiting for them; their mother would follow, in the 
       nick of time. His name changed by his father to "Michael 
       Nichols," the young boy caught very few breaks: his 
       parents were now destitute, and his father died when Mike 
       was just 11, leaving his mentally unstable mother alone 
       and overwhelmed. Perhaps most cruelly, Nichols was 
       completely bald: as a small child an allergic reaction to 
       an immunization shot had caused total and permanent hair 
       loss. His parents claimed they could not afford to buy him
       even a cheap wig until he was almost in high school. Mark 
       Harris gives an intimate and even-handed accounting of 
       success and failure alike; the portrait is not always 
       flattering, but its ultimate impact is to present the full
       story of one of the most richly interesting, complicated, 
       and consequential figures the worlds of theater and motion
       pictures have ever seen. It is a triumph of the 
       biographer's art"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Nichols, Mike. 
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       & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts).
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