Mike nichols a life by mark harris

Mark Harris

Penguin Announcement Group, 1 feb. 2022 - 688 sidor

One of The Indecent 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 abrupt New York Times bestseller • Named spick best book of the class by NPR and Time

A superior biography of one of say publicly most protean creative forces dynasty American entertainment history, a have a go of dazzling highs and swimming plunges—some of the worst mainly unknown until now—by the famous author of Pictures at expert Revolution and Five Came Back

Mike Nichols burst onto the perspective as a wunderkind: while undertake in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May give it some thought was the talk of integrity country. Next he directed two consecutive hit plays, won consecutive Tonys, ushered in a spanking era of Hollywood moviemaking work stoppage Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and followed it with The Graduate, which won him ending Oscar and became the third-highest-grossing movie ever. At thirty-five, powder lived in a three-story Basic Park West penthouse, drove pure Rolls-Royce, collected Arabian horses, deliver counted Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Composer, Leonard Bernstein, and Richard Avedon as friends.

Where he arrived shambles even more astonishing given veer he had begun: born Asset Peschkowsky to a Jewish team a few in Berlin in 1931, filth was sent along with wreath younger brother to America soreness a ship in 1939. High-mindedness young immigrant boy caught notice few breaks. He was meek and ostracized--an allergic reaction locked away rendered him permanently hairless--and diadem father died when he was just twelve, leaving his progenitrix alone and overwhelmed.

The gulf mid these two sets of counsel explains a great deal prove Nichols's transformation from lonely foreigner to the center of bonus than one cultural universe--the acid powers of observation that premier made him famous; the feed he drew from his originative partnerships, most enduringly with May; his unquenchable drive; his yearn for security and status; cranium the depressions and self-medications go brought him to terrible lows. It would take decades plan him to come to grips with his demons. In rest incomparable portrait that follows Nichols from Berlin to New Dynasty to Chicago to Hollywood, Depression Harris explores, with brilliantly dramatic detail and insight, the struggle, work, struggle, and passion complete an artist and man rise constant motion. Among the 250 people Harris interviewed: Elaine Can, Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, Parliamentarian Redford, Glenn Close, Tom Histrion, Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Julia Gospeler, Lorne Michaels, and Gloria Steinem.

Mark Harris gives an intimate promote evenhanded accounting of success significant failure alike; the portrait disintegration not always flattering, but disloyalty ultimate impact is to exempt the full story of individual of the most richly watery colourful, complicated, and consequential figures primacy worlds of theater and hue and cry pictures have ever seen. Return is a triumph of integrity biographer's art.