Mike Nichols
1931-2014
One of the great show biz talents of the last fifty or so years left us yesterday with the passing of Mike Nichols.
His greatest legacy will be that of the twenty-two movies that he directed, some of them truly landmark films such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", "Catch-22", and, of course, his Oscar winning "The Graduate" (one of my own all-time personal favorites). The last movie he directed was the very fine 2007 "Charlie Wilson's War" with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
Nichols was much more than that, of course. He is one of a very select few who have won an Emmy, Tony, Oscar, and Grammy Award. He was the founder of the legendary Second City Comedy Troop of Chicago. He has won six Tony Awards, five of them for Directing. He began as a comedian, and his teaming with Elaine May produced one of the great comedy teams of all time. Many people have posted YouTube clips on Facebook today of some classic Nichols and May comedy routines. You could do worse things with your time today than searching some of those out for yourself today.
RIP Mike Nichols.
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