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# Mike Nichols: A Life

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    Life Isn’t Everything
  

*by P***B on Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2021*

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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    The perfect biography of this great artist we needed
  

*by N***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2021*

Still reading, and hate to finish. This is one of the finest biographies I’ve read. Interesting, concise, thorough, extremely engaging, intelligent, funny. It’s really an extraordinary tribute and summary to this great American life. I’m honestly sad about finishing it because it’s so enjoyable to hear from the people who worked with and knew Nichols, and himself. As well, the book itself is very well made —  great design, illustrations, paper quality and typeface. It’s honestly one of the best made books I’ve ever seen — I think Penguin realized this would be the authoritative document on Nichols life and they wanted it to be something special, and it is. Mark Harris is an exceptional biographer; his insight, taste, investigative abilities, and writing are so enjoyable to read. He narrates the life elegantly and has carefully selected stories and details that present Nichols and his world without extraneous opinionating or gossip -- except what's relevant. The overall approach creates a focused, sophisticated atmosphere that makes one feel what it must have been like to be in Nichols' orbit. This makes a good complement to "Life Isn't Everything," a collection of stories and recollections from Nichols' friends that came out a few years ago.UPDATE:Sadly, I finished this book -- sadly, because I did not want it to end. I cried when it was over. This was really one of the most wonderful experiences I ever had reading a biography. Because many of the participants are still with us -- Streep, Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks etc -- the loss of Nichols from among them, among us, is so much sadder. We really realize that Mike Nichols made a lot of the cultural history of the second half of the twentieth century and set the twenty-first on a good path -- he advised and mentored Lin-Manuel Miranda at some point. So the loss of someone like this is so hard -- will we ever see such intelligence, insight, love of performers, talent, wit, sophistication again? I feel the loss of Nichols so much more after finishing this wonderful biography. Anyone who's interested in film, theater or the arts at all should read this, and wish they had met this amazing guy.

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    Mesmerizing Biography
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2021*

This is one of the best biographies of a contemporary artist in recent years, certainly the best since John Lahr's Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh about Tennessee Williams.  The book covers both Nichols' private life and public work, with an emphasis on his work, a choice I always prefer. While Harris clearly admired Nichols, the book is quite candid regarding Nichols drug use, failed marriages and health issues.  I did not think the book was gossipy, although it seemed as if everyone Nichols knew after he and Elaine May became rich and famous in their 20s, was a celebrity.  In spite of that, people come across as real, not a minor achievement on the author's part.  Mark Harris has become a favorite author of mine. This is his third terrific book. He previously wrote Pictures at a Revolution, about the best picture nominees of 1968 (one of which was The Graduate) and Five Came Back, about five film directors whose careers were altered by WWII.  Highly recommended. If you are like me, you will likely find the chapters focusing on the movies and the life on the set of films like The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Catch 22 to be the strongest, but the rest of the book is terrific. I was surprised to realize he did more on Broadway than in Hollywood, but those sections also are quite good as well, even if they may not be as familiar.  When the book talks about the Nichols' direction of Neil Simon plays, or The Death of a Salesman or Angels in America, the works are familiar enough for most to follow.

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