Takes: Mike Nichols by Joshua Rothman

Mike Nichols, the director of "The Graduate" (1967) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), died last night, at the age of eighty-three. Nichols first came to prominence in the nineteen-fifties, as half of the comedy duo Nichols and May, before going on to become a phenomenally successful stage and screen director. In "Making It Real," his 2000 Profile of Nichols, John Lahr wrote that he "represented the high-w…

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