Mike Nicholsâs Brilliant Career
Mike Nichols in 1966Credit...Sam Falk/The New York Times
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By James Wolcott
By Mark Harris
Individual genius is a group accomplishment, and donât let Flaubert tell you different. Mike Nichols, whose name stands alone on the marquee of Mark Harrisâs gleaming, teeming biography, possessed wit, cunning, icy clarity, ravenous ambition and a knack for mimicking the qualms and quavers of neurosis, but none of that would have been set free if he hadnât lucked upon the right tribe.
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Mike Nichols with Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel and Jack Nicholson on a break during the âCarnal Knowledgeâ shoot.Credit...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences