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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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ecstatically excited at odd times that help set the tone for the movie, which aims to confuse the viewer as to what’s actually happening and what’s occurring solely inside Jessica’s mind.
The set-up is that Jessica has just emerged from a psychiatric hospital after a six-month stay; her diagnosis is never specified, but she was seeing and hearing things (like her dead father) and believing them to be real. Her husband, Duncan (Barton Heyman), has left his orchestra gig in New York and spent his savings on a ramshackle farmhouse in Connecticut, hoping to help Jessica continue her recovery and also, it’s implied, to repair the marriage that’s been strained by her illness and absence.