‘Mike Nichols: A Life’ By Mark Harris c.2021, Penguin Press $35/688 pages Few books will make you want to stop reading, break out the popcorn and start streaming movies ASAP as much as “Mike Nichols: A Life.” I don’t mean that at all as criticism.
Film historian Mark Harris’s biography of film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian Mike Nichols is so entertaining that you’ll almost put it down to dip into Nichols’s work.
To watch some of his iconic films such as “The Graduate” or “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” stream his Emmy Award-winning version of “Angels in America” or listen to the albums of his groundbreaking comedy act with Elaine May.