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Mike Nichols was an American comedian, director, producer, and actor of the stage and screen. He began his career in the 1950s as a comedian alongside Elaine May doing improvisational comedy. Together they formed the comedy duo Nichols and May. Their live improv act was a hit sensation on Broadway, and the first of their three albums won a ...
Feb 6, 2021 · SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Boy, Mike Nichols glittered. His name was in lights on Broadway as a great theater director, on movie marquees as a filmmaker, a striking creative force from his time at the ...
Sep 11, 2015 · Mike Nichols, who died at home in New York last November 19, 13 days past his 83rd birthday, left a crater-size hole in the cultural landscape and in the life of the city he loved.He was that rare ...
Nov 21, 2014 · Nov. 20, 2014. Mike Nichols, one of America’s most celebrated directors, whose long, protean résumé of critic- and crowd-pleasing work earned him adulation both on Broadway and in Hollywood ...
Feb 1, 2021 · Mike Nichols and Elaine May opened for Mort Sahl at the Village Vanguard in October, 1957. Apart from their manager, Jack Rollins, whom they’d met for the first time just a week or two before ...
Aug 26, 2023 · 5 'The Birdcage' (1996) Image via MGM. Understandably holding up as one of Mike Nichols's most popular and entertaining movies, The Birdcage is a classic 1990s comedy starring Robin Williams and ...
Nov 20, 2014 · NEW YORK (AP) — A legend of film, theater and comedy in nearly equal measure, Mike Nichols was an unquestioned fixture of smart, urbane American culture across a relentlessly versatile, six-decade career that on stage or screen, reliably coursed with crackling intelligence. Nichols won nine Tonys, an Oscar, several Emmys and a Grammy. He made up the lanky half of his groundbreaking comic duo ...
