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An instant New York Times Bestseller!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 BackMike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and followed it with The Graduate, which won him an Oscar and became the third-highest-grossing movie ever. At thirty-five, he lived in a three-story Central Park West penthouse, drove a Rolls-Royce, collected Arabian horses, and counted Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Leonard Bernstein, and Richard Avedon as friends.Where he arrived is even more astonishing given where he had begun: born Igor Peschkowsky to a Jewish couple in Berlin in 1931, he was sent along with his younger brother to America on a ship in 1939. The young immigrant boy caught very few breaks. He was bullied and ostracized--an allergic reaction had rendered him permanently hairless--and his father died when he was just twelve, leaving his mother alone and overwhelmed.The gulf between these two sets of facts explains a great deal about Nichols's transformation from lonely outsider to the center of more than one cultural universe--the acute powers of observation that first made him famous; the nourishment he drew from his creative partnerships, most enduringly with May; his unquenchable drive; his hunger for security and status; and the depressions and self-medications that brought him to terrible lows. It would take decades for him to come to grips with his demons. In an incomparable portrait that follows Nichols from Berlin to New York to Chicago to Hollywood, Mark Harris explores, with brilliantly vivid detail and insight, the life, work, struggle, and passion of an artist and man in constant motion. Among the 250 people Harris interviewed: Elaine May, Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Tom Hanks, Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Lorne Michaels, and Gloria Steinem.Mark Harris gives an intimate and evenhanded 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.

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What is it about a man that entices me to read a book, a book about his life. Truthfully the comedy, the shocking insights, the gossip, the good stuff. All of it is here in this book written by Mark Harris. The author takes us to new ground, but he also explores the other stuff.A man who had always interested me is Mike Nichols. It was his romance and finally marriage to Diane Sawyer, that garnered attention. It seems the fourth time works, and they were married 26 years. This book written by Harris gives us the real deal, and Mike Nichol’s life comes to the fore in a manner that is fun to read about.As we learn, Mike, born of Polish parents, came to the US to escape Hitler. Mike lived a life of hardwork with his parents, attended a college that gave him a base for his career. While in college Mike met Elaine May. Elaine was a woman with great wit. She and Mike had a comic speil that was funny and attracted a lot of attention. Offers came in for both of them, and Mike found his niche in directing. 8 nominations for directing sold out Broadway shows, showed his true bailiwick..The book gives us big pieces of his life, the loss of his hair, eyelashes and eyebrows as a child resulted in terrible wigs and loss of self esteem. His addictions to cocaine and Halcion, his severe depression kept him in drug centers for months at a time. He married four times, his last marriage to Diane for 26 years. A man with many problems, some insights into his life but not enough to keep him out of the limelight. By the end of the book, I had garnered some of the flight of fancy. Mike Nichols kept to himself most of his life, and now we know a little bit more . A man to admire, with charisma to spare, who overcame many of his problems.Recommended. prisrob 02-02-2021

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