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
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The Chinese actress has been slammed for playing a 15-year-old girl in a Chinese period drama series when she was 38 years old.
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Emma Thompson did it in Ang Lee’s 1995 screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
, as did Dustin Hoffman in the movie classic
The Graduate in 1967. Actors taking on roles that are much younger than their real age – Thompson played a 19-year-old when she was 35 and Hoffman a college student at 30 – is nothing new.
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The iconic film Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, has been dubbed racist, bullying and homophobic by snowflakes after the BBC aired it on Boxing Day
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