Review: 'Mike Nichols: A Life,' a biography by Mark Harris
Penguin: 688 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Mike Nichols was a relatively novice filmmaker when he shot “The Graduate,” and the first time he saw it with a paying audience, he wondered if he’d made a dud. Nichols and its star, Dustin Hoffman, were sitting together in the balcony, unsure how it was playing, when the answer rose up like thunder from below: The audience was on its feet, cheering. “We were speechless,” Nichols said. “We didn’t understand why people were goi...
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