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The improbable life of Mike Nichols
ourselves at our best, at our worst, and at all those complicated, all-too-human places in-between. Mike s approach as a director was, Make it real. Make it recognizable. And go toward the people – the talent, the actors, the writers that you love, said Mark Harris, the author of a new biography about Nichols. Penguin Press
His tale began improbably: Mike Nichols life story is the story of someone who started with the odds pretty well stacked against him, said Harris.
As Nichols himself explained to Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes in 1996, when he was born in Berlin in 1931, Nichols wasn t even his name: It was Michael Igor Peschkowsky, and my father was a doctor, and he was Russian. And when we came to this country, he said that by the time he spelled his name, the patient was in the hospital, so he changed it.