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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 Thank You For Your Service USA Flag T-Shirt so you should to go to store and get this 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 Harris’s fascinating, exhaustively researched, and utterly absorbing biography of the cultural polymath, someone who seemed to move effortlessly between the theater and the movies, conquering them both.It turns out that Streamers came to Nichols at a critical point in both his career and his personal life. A star in his 20s, when he teamed up with Elaine May to create their now legendary comedy team; a wunderkind on Broadway, where he won Tony Awards for the first three plays he directed (Barefoot in the Park, Luv, and The Odd Couple); and then a Hollywood phenomenon, nominated for a directing Oscar for his debut effort (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and then winning that Oscar for his second (The Graduate), Nichols suddenly seemed to have lost his magic touch around the time Streamers was sent to him to read.He had suffered the first real flops of his career—the misfire of Catch-22, followed by The Day of the Dolphin, and The Fortune—and had begun to envy the work of colleagues, like Milos Forman and Robert Altman, who were redefining American cinema. He had also ended the second of his first two marriages, a notably brief union of 11 months, and had moved on to his third. (Decades later, when Aaron Sorkin asked Nichols when he realized his brief marriage wasn’t going to work, he darkly answered, “When she pulled a knife on me.”) Throughout his life, Nichols would have a string of high-profile romances, from Gloria Steinem to the novelist and New Yorker film critic Penelope Gilliatt and a one-sided pursuit of Jackie Onassis, before finding what turned out to be the perfect match in Diane Sawyer, his fourth and final wife. (In an extended footnote, Harris swats away the conjecture, raised in a recently published book about Richard Avedon, that the director and photographer had a clandestine 10-year romantic relationship. “I remained open to any information about Nichols’s history with men that was specific and/or confirmable,” Harris writes. “I found none.”)Streamers marked a return to form for Nichols. It would bring him sold-out audiences, rave reviews, and yet another Tony nomination. It would also establish a pattern that lasted nearly a lifetime: triumph followed by setback, often accompanied by crippling depression (and occasionally substance abuse), followed by yet another successful comeback. It was a roller-coaster life that, no matter how challenging it might have been for Nichols, makes a thrilling tale for the reader.Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky (or Igor Michael Peschkowsky—the record is muddled) in Berlin, the son of a Russian-born father and a German mother, Nichols, as he would later become known, and his brother escaped to the U.S. as Jewish refugees in 1939. An intelligent but indifferent student, he was admitted to the University of Chicago (one of the few schools at the time that accepted applicants with subpar grades but sufficient test scores) and later became part of an improv group, where he met May. The two apparently despised each other on sight but ultimately formed a deep professional and personal bond that would last until Nichols’s death in 2014 at the age of 83.Nichols would start out as an actor, but once he gravitated toward directing, it was clear that he possessed almost an unrivaled gift that enabled him to move skillfully between comedies, dramas, and even musicals (as in Spamalot), making him the most successful director of his generation. In all, he would win nine Tonys (including two for producing) and two directing Emmys and garner four Oscar nominations in addition to his one win. (He and May would also win the 1961 Grammy Award for best comedy album.)Harris, the author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back (and the husband of playwright Tony Kushner, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America Nichols directed in an Emmy-winning adaptation), clearly has an empathy and a deep admiration for Nichols, but this is not a sugarcoated biography. The piercing cruelty Nichols could show toward performers, often pushing them to the edge of breakdown during rehearsals, is dealt with frankly. “At times, Nichols’s behavior bordered on the sadistic,” Harris writes, describing how during the filming of The Graduate he could be “tough, caustic, dismissive” of Dustin Hoffman, the young actor he had plucked out of obscurity to star as Benjamin Braddock. But so too is the adoration many of his colleagues felt toward him—particularly the women he trusted, nurtured, and closely collaborated with, among them Meryl Streep (Silkwood, Heartburn, Postcards From the Edge), Emma Thompson, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and, of course, Elaine May.The chapters covering Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate, two of Nichols’s greatest movies and indeed two of the greatest American movies of all time, are among the most engrossing. (Each chapter could have been turned into a book of its own.) Despite both films having been made six decades ago, with many of the key participants now dead, the narratives have a compelling you-are-there quality, as Harris chronicles the tricky business of directing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Woolf and in The Graduate describes a scene where Dustin Hoffman, secretly encouraged by Nichols, unexpectedly puts his hand on Anne Bancroft’s breast while Bancroft “without breaking character for second, glances at his hand, barely curious” and cooly examines a spot on the sweater she has just taken off. The burden of Mike Nichols: A Life is that it has to retain its readers’ attention to such a degree that they can resist the urge to put the book down for a few hours and watch a Nichols film. Throughout Mike Nichols: A Life, I had to constantly fight the desire to stream Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, to name just a few, until Harris’s skilled storytelling pulled me back in. But, finally, when I turned the last page, I opened my laptop, signed on to my Amazon Prime account, and began rewatching The Graduate. Sheer bliss.

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It’s hard to have any secrets when you occupy one of the Thank You For Your Service USA Flag T-Shirt so you should to go to store and get this most carefully scrutinized posts in the U.S., but still, don’t assume that you know everything about first lady Jill Biden. Biden, who turned 70 this month, is known for being upfront and honest, but there’s still more to her than meets the eye; below, find five of the most unexpected things you might not yet know about FLOTUS.1. She went through five proposals from Joe Biden before she said yes. “I had to be 100% sure that if Joe and I got married, it would be forever—for Beau and Hunter’s sake,” Biden wrote in 2019, explaining that she was eventually convinced to say yes—and she’s never regretted it.2. She’s an avid runner. Biden started running in the early ’90s, eventually competing in the 1998 Marine Corps Marathon, where she met her goal of a 4:30:32 finish time. (No small feat, especially for a non-Marine!)3. She’s a known prankster. To ring in April this year, Biden dressed up as a flight attendant during a flight from California to Washington, tricking members of the staff and press by wearing a short black wig and a name tag reading “Jasmine” and passing out ice cream bars. A pretty legendary April Fools’ stunt, to be honest.4. She’s a children’s-book author. In addition to her many other projects, Biden authored a children’s book titled Joey: The Story of Joe Biden, which was published in June of 2020. The book charts Joe Biden’s rise from the oldest of four siblings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to one of the youngest U.S. state senators ever elected.5. She’s a fan of the blind date (and might not be first lady if she weren’t). Biden met her now husband when she was still in college, on a blind date arranged by her brother. As she told Vogue in 2016, “I was a senior, and I had been dating guys in jeans and clogs and T-shirts. He came to the door, and he had a sport coat and loafers, and I thought, God, this is never going to work, not in a million years. He was nine years older than I am! But we went out to see A Man and a Woman at the movie theater in Philadelphia, and we really hit it off.”

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