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Mike Nichols: A Life Remembered February 4, 2021 Few directors have made a significant impact in both cinema and the theater; Mike Nichols was one of them. Like Orson Welles before him, Nichols was a triple-threat: a wunderkind actor, writer, and director treading the boards of Broadway before making in-roads in Hollywood with an impressive string of films ( Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Catch-22, and Carnal Knowledge) all before he turned 40. After 21 films, 29 Broadway productions, and one of the few members of the EGOT club (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award recipien...

The Turbulent Genius of Mike Nichols Vogue 2/1/2021 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 1976. 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 Har...

Penguin Press, 688 pages, $29.99 After six days on the S.S. Bremen in 1939, the little Berliner fleeing the Third Reich disembarked in New York. Igor Michael Peschowsky was seven, “a self-contained, unsmiling child,” and bald as an egg – the unexpected result of a whooping-cough vaccine. At the time, said his brother, they had never seen the inside of a synagogue and were about as un-Jewish as it’s possible for Jews to be. In terms of distinguishing characteristics (no hair, no brows, no lashes) and identity (not Russian like Dad, not fully German like Mom, and not yet American), Igor...

Mark Harris' new lively biography,  Mike Nichols: A Life , includes an anecdote oft-told in interviews by Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman, then an unknown, resisted reading for the part of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, a plum role that could, and later did, make him a star. But at the time he felt he would have been miscast. "This character is so WASPish," he protested to Nichols, who directed the film. Nichols responded, "Maybe he's Jewish inside."  Nichols' Jewish identity and his immigrant perspective on American culture and human foibles informed his work. A mere recitation of ...

>> they are in jurisdictions that have massive criminal justice systems where many times kate is lucky, she's an agreement small community where you can do this. in manhattan, in brooklyn, in our city in the bronx, it's almost impossible. >> i should point out in the federal system when it comes to plea bargaining, parties do not come up with a sentence. the sentencing decisions to left up to the judge. although the government are the charges to which the defender will plead guilty come in most cases. there's a limited exception. there's sen...