Mike Nichols biography claims Oscar-winning director's 1986 heart attack brought on by drug abuse
A new book about late filmmaker Mike Nichols claims the heart attack Nichols suffered in 1986 was due to the director's abuse of multiple drugs, including crack. In author Mark Harris's Mike Nichols: A Life, Harris said the Oscar-winning director of The Graduate 'had been using cocaine regularly for some time and had been known to use crack, too,' according to a passage New York Magazine published. The book claimed cocaine had a 'ubiquitous' presence among Nichols' friends at the time, and that the director of films such as Postcards from the Edge, The Birdcage and had Regarding Henry 'later ...