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- Illustrations, unspecified
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- Henry Holt & Company
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- Illustrated
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
1250112877
ISBN-13
9781250112873
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038547526
Product Key Features
Book Title
Life Isn't Everything : Mike Nichols, As Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Rich & Famous, Theater / Direction & Production, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / Direction & Production
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-031319
Reviews
"What, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50 years of one's closest friends and collaborators to say behind one's back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them ever met)? This book." --Wes Anderson "Funny, incisive, kind, wicked, daring, gripping, sad, human. Kind of like a Mike Nichols movie." --Noah Baumbach "I love a great Mike Nichols story! And an entire book of them--by turns hilarious, insightful and inspiring--is a real gift." --Judd Apatow "Legendary director Mike Nichols (1931-2014) refused to write his memoirs, but this scintillating oral history fills the gap splendidly, with wry and heartfelt commentary by "150 of his closest friends," from Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Meryl Streep through Candice Bergen and Christine Baranski, all of whom cherished their professional and personal relationships with a man who seemingly impressed everyone he met as being the smartest and most charming person in the room." -- Booklist starred review, "Some of the best writing about Hollywood." -- John Simon, The New York Times "Manna from heaven, its brilliantly orchestrated polyphony bringing him, his work, and his world to vivid life...It is properly celebratory and deliciously filled with his bons mots, but from its opening pages, it shirks none of the complexity of the man, acknowledging the darkness so close to the shining surface... The breadth of the witnesses is remarkable, as are their candor and perceptiveness." -- Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books A People magazine "Book of the Week" "A fascinating oral history of Nichols's career. . . . [Kashner and Carter] have intelligently chosen to concentrate on the career rather than the life, and on Nichols's working methods and artistic techniques. Most of the 150 voices . . . speak eloquently both of the enormous intelligence Nichols brought to almost every project he was involved in and of the deep respect he accorded his collaborators." -- Brooke Allen , Wall Street Journal "Captivating... what stands out in the memories of Nichols' many colleagues is his ability to guide actors." -- Associated Press "What, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50 years of one's closest friends and collaborators to say behind one's back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them ever met)? This book." --Wes Anderson "Funny, incisive, kind, wicked, daring, gripping, sad, human. Kind of like a Mike Nichols movie." --Noah Baumbach "I love a great Mike Nichols story! And an entire book of them--by turns hilarious, insightful and inspiring--is a real gift." --Judd Apatow "For those of you who were denied the exquisite pleasure of knowing Mike Nichols, it's not too late to make his very special acquaintance. Life Isn't Everything allows this once in a generation personality to sparkle anew. I was entertained, provoked, reminded of just exactly why a great man was great." -- John Patrick Shanley "One of the f#@%ing illest books ever." -- Jonah Hill "The Irish wake of your dreams." -- Broadway Direct "Legendary director Mike Nichols (1931-2014) refused to write his memoirs, but this scintillating oral history fills the gap splendidly, with wry and heartfelt commentary by "150 of his closest friends," from Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Meryl Streep through Candice Bergen and Christine Baranski, all of whom cherished their professional and personal relationships with a man who seemingly impressed everyone he met as being the smartest and most charming person in the room." -- Booklist starred review "[A] candid, intimate portrayal of a man they loved and admired.... A warmhearted, revelatory composite portrait." --Kirkus Reviews "It turns out an oral history is ... the best way to tell the fascinating story of Nichols... The quotes are carefully arranged to deliver a narrative... that makes each successive fact more shocking." --Joel Stein, Town & Country, Best Biographies of the Year "Deep, in-the-pocket theater devotees . . . are going to feast on this brilliant and terrific oral history of the life and times of the singular Mike Nichols." -- Buffalo News, "What, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50 years of one's closest friends and collaborators to say behind one's back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them ever met)? This book." --Wes Anderson "Funny, incisive, kind, wicked, daring, gripping, sad, human. Kind of like a Mike Nichols movie." --Noah Baumbach, "What, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50 years of one's closest friends and collaborators to say behind one's back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them ever met)? This book." --Wes Anderson "Funny, incisive, kind, wicked, daring, gripping, sad, human. Kind of like a Mike Nichols movie." --Noah Baumbach "I love a great Mike Nichols story! And an entire book of them--by turns hilarious, insightful and inspiring--is a real gift." --Judd Apatow "Legendary director Mike Nichols (1931-2014) refused to write his memoirs, but this scintillating oral history fills the gap splendidly, with wry and heartfelt commentary by "150 of his closest friends," from Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Meryl Streep through Candice Bergen and Christine Baranski, all of whom cherished their professional and personal relationships with a man who seemingly impressed everyone he met as being the smartest and most charming person in the room." --Bill Ott, Booklist starred review, "A fascinating oral history of Nichols's career. . . . [Kashner and Carter] have intelligently chosen to concentrate on the career rather than the life, and on Nichols's working methods and artistic techniques. Most of the 150 voices . . . speak eloquently both of the enormous intelligence Nichols brought to almost every project he was involved in and of the deep respect he accorded his collaborators." -- Brooke Allen , Wall Street Journal "What, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50 years of one's closest friends and collaborators to say behind one's back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them ever met)? This book." --Wes Anderson "Funny, incisive, kind, wicked, daring, gripping, sad, human. Kind of like a Mike Nichols movie." --Noah Baumbach "I love a great Mike Nichols story! And an entire book of them--by turns hilarious, insightful and inspiring--is a real gift." --Judd Apatow "Legendary director Mike Nichols (1931-2014) refused to write his memoirs, but this scintillating oral history fills the gap splendidly, with wry and heartfelt commentary by "150 of his closest friends," from Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Meryl Streep through Candice Bergen and Christine Baranski, all of whom cherished their professional and personal relationships with a man who seemingly impressed everyone he met as being the smartest and most charming person in the room." -- Booklist starred review "Deep, in-the-pocket theater devotees . . . are going to feast on this brilliant and terrific oral history of the life and times of the singular Mike Nichols." -- Buffalo News, "What, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50 years of one's closest friends and collaborators to say behind one's back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them ever met)? This book." --Wes Anderson "Funny, incisive, kind, wicked, daring, gripping, sad, human. Kind of like a Mike Nichols movie." --Noah Baumbach "I love a great Mike Nichols story! And an entire book of them--by turns hilarious, insightful and inspiring--is a real gift." --Judd Apatow, "What, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50 years of one's closest friends and collaborators to say behind one's back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them ever met)? This book." --Wes Anderson "Funny, incisive, kind, wicked, daring, gripping, sad, human. Kind of like a Mike Nichols movie." --Noah Baumbach "I love a great Mike Nichols story! And an entire book of them--by turns hilarious, insightful and inspiring--is a real gift." --Judd Apatow "Legendary director Mike Nichols (1931-2014) refused to write his memoirs, but this scintillating oral history fills the gap splendidly, with wry and heartfelt commentary by "150 of his closest friends," from Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Meryl Streep through Candice Bergen and Christine Baranski, all of whom cherished their professional and personal relationships with a man who seemingly impressed everyone he met as being the smartest and most charming person in the room." -- Booklist starred review "Deep, in-the-pocket theater devotees . . . are going to feast on this brilliant and terrific oral history of the life and times of the singular Mike Nichols." -- Buffalo News, "What, exactly, would one wish for a sizable room filled with 50 years of one's closest friends and collaborators to say behind one's back (if one happened to be arguably/inarguably the most charming, talented, fascinating, entertaining person any of them ever met)? This book." --Wes Anderson
Dewey Decimal
792.023
Table Of Content
Authors' Note Introduction: The Burton Stakes Chapter 1: Dybbuks and Golems Chapter 2: To Sell Another Drink Chapter 3: Premise Envy Chapter 4: Don't Act It Funny Chapter 5: It All Started in the Alley Chapter 6: The Citizen Kane of Disaffected Youth Chapter 7: Icarus Was Falling Chapter 8: We Must Work Together Chapter 9: No New Worlds to Conquer Chapter 10: Can I Get a Wild Take? Chapter 11: Caviar for the General Chapter 12: A Means to Egress Chapter 13: Like Church, but a Fun Church Chapter 14: Making Friends with Death Coda: That Guru Thing Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts--from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels. The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness--from The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Angels in America , The Birdcage , Working Girl , and Primary Colors , not to mention his string of hit plays, including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple . If that weren't enough, he was also one half of the timelessly funny duo Nichols & May, as well as a founding member of the original improv troupe. Over a career that spanned half a century, Mike Nichols changed Hollywood, Broadway, and comedy forever. Most fans, however, know very little of the person behind it all. Since he never wrote his memoirs, and seldom appeared on television, they have very little sense of his searching intellect or his devastating wit. They don't know that Nichols, the great American director, was born Mikail Igor Peschkowsky, in Berlin, and came to this country, speaking no English, to escape the Nazis. They don't know that Nichols was at one time a solitary psychology student, or that a childhood illness caused permanent, life-altering side effects. They don't know that he withdrew into a debilitating depression before he "finally got it right," in his words, by marrying Diane Sawyer. Here, for the first time, Ash Carter and Sam Kashner offer an intimate look behind the scenes of Nichols' life, as told by the stars, moguls, playwrights, producers, comics and crewmembers who stayed loyal to Nichols for years. Life Isn't Everything is a mosaic portrait of a brilliant and original director known for his uncommon charm, wit, vitality, and genius for friendship, this volume is also a snapshot of what it meant to be living, loving, and making art in the 20th century.
LC Classification Number
PN1998.3.N54C37 2020
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