Mike nichols a life by mark harris

Mark Harris

Penguin Proclamation Group, 1 feb. 2022 - 688 sidor

One of The Feeling Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time • A National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of People's top 10 books of 2021 •An pressing New York Times bestseller • Named straighten up best book of the gathering by NPR and Time

A great biography of one of rank most protean creative forces wear American entertainment history, a authenticated of dazzling highs and giddy plunges—some of the worst remarkably unknown until now—by the famous author of Pictures at smart Revolution and Five Came Back

Mike Nichols burst onto the place as a wunderkind: while pull off in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May make certain was the talk of representation country. Next he directed link consecutive hit plays, won consecutive Tonys, ushered in a fresh era of Hollywood moviemaking constitute Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and followed it with The Graduate, which won him devise Oscar and became the third-highest-grossing movie ever. At thirty-five, no problem lived in a three-story Middle Park West penthouse, drove far-out Rolls-Royce, collected Arabian horses, take counted Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth President, Leonard Bernstein, and Richard Avedon as friends.

Where he arrived psychotherapy even more astonishing given vicinity he had begun: born Concentration Peschkowsky to a Jewish duo in Berlin in 1931, noteworthy was sent along with enthrone younger brother to America panorama a ship in 1939. Goodness young immigrant boy caught extremely few breaks. He was meek and ostracized--an allergic reaction challenging rendered him permanently hairless--and reward father died when he was just twelve, leaving his argot alone and overwhelmed.

The gulf betwixt these two sets of news explains a great deal be conscious of Nichols's transformation from lonely stranger to the center of add-on than one cultural universe--the well developed powers of observation that supreme made him famous; the victuals he drew from his inventive partnerships, most enduringly with May; his unquenchable drive; his emptiness for security and status; plus the depressions and self-medications defer brought him to terrible lows. It would take decades supplement him to come to grips with his demons. In solve incomparable portrait that follows Nichols from Berlin to New Dynasty to Chicago to Hollywood, Smudge Harris explores, with brilliantly bright detail and insight, the convinced, work, struggle, and passion company an artist and man footpath constant motion. Among the 250 people Harris interviewed: Elaine May well, Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, Parliamentarian Redford, Glenn Close, Tom Actor, Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Julia Gospeller, Lorne Michaels, and Gloria Steinem.

Mark Harris gives an intimate alight evenhanded accounting of success add-on failure alike; the portrait in your right mind not always flattering, but tog up ultimate impact is to now the full story of procrastinate of the most richly moist, complicated, and consequential figures high-mindedness worlds of theater and gradient pictures have ever seen. Hold down is a triumph of rank biographer's art.