Researching Mike Nichols: How the New Biography of the Director Came Together
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hollywoodreporter.comMike Nichols had been a guest at Mark Harris' wedding to writer Tony Kushner, and the couple had dined with the filmmaker many times since Nichols directed the 2003 HBO adaptation of Kushner's play Angels in America.
But when Harris' book publisher, Penguin Press, approached the journalist and author to write a biography of Nichols after the director's death, "I knew that there was a ton I didn't know," Harris says. "And I knew I would never not be interested." Six years later, Harris' Mike Nichols: A Life is out.
Based on 250 interviews with actors and collaborators including Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman and Elaine May, Harris' book traces Nichols' extraordinary life — from his boyhood trip from Germany to the U.S.
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