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	Mike Nichols Bio
		A childhood war refugee from Germany, director, producer and writer Mike Nichols first rose to fame in the late 1950s as one half of a popular comedy act with Elaine May. The team's humor was distinguished by a sharp eye for the foibles of male-female relationships and a bitingly satirical attention to contemporary social pressures.
		Following the team's 1961 breakup, Nichols first turned his attention to directing for the Broadway stage, where he was an immediate and long-lasting success with comedies like Barefoot in the Park (1963), Luv (1964), The Odd Couple (1965), and Plaza Suite (1968).
		Some of the film's satirical elements were overlooked at the time; Nichols was prescient enough to realise that the younger generation had little with which to replace the empty values of their parents.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/8200/nichols.htm (719 words)

	American Masters . Mike Nichols \| PBS
		Nichols and May spent much of the next three years traveling the country performing together on stage, radio, and television.
		Nichols, who concentrated primarily on directing, worked often with Neil Simon and has won seven Tony Awards, for plays including "The Odd Couple" (1965) and "The Real Thing" (1984).
		THE BIRD CAGE, written by May and directed by Nichols was a triumphant return and one of the funniest movies of 1996.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/nichols_m.html (526 words)

	Mike Nichols - Films as Director:
		The films of Mike Nichols are guided by the eye and ear of a satirist whose professional gifts emerge from a style of liberal, improvisational comedy that originated in a Chicago theater club and developed into a performing partnership with Elaine May in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
		Nichols, moreover, intentionally undermines the comic resolution toward which the film has been heading through ambivalent shots of Ben and Elaine on their departing bus, implicating them in mutual recognition of a colossal mistake.
		But Nichols is very much an auteur, working intimately with his collaborators on all aspects of his films, principally the writing and, as with many auteurs, using many of the same actors and technicians again and again.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Mi-Pe/Nichols-Mike.html (2237 words)

	Mike Nichols @ Filmbug UK
		Mike Nichols is a legend in the entertainment industry, honored for his contributions to both stage and screen, in front of and behind the camera.
		In 1987, Nichols received the George Abbott Award and in 1990 was honored by the American Museum of the Moving Image for his contribution to the film industry.
		Nichols directed his first film, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in 1966, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, and for which Elizabeth Taylor won a Best Actress Academy Award.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/27052 (747 words)

	AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Mike Nichols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shot boldly in the French New Wave style, Nichols wrecked America's picture-perfect façade of white picket fences and neatly-trimmed yards to reveal the cultural disenchantment spreading to the suburban middle and upper-middle classes.
		Born in Berlin on November 6, 1931, Nichols' family left for America when he was seven, just as the Nazis were stepping up their anti-Semitic and eventually genocidal cause.
		For his achievements as a director, Mike Nichols received in December 2003 a Kennedy Center Medal, along with such luminaries as Loretta Lynn, James Brown and Carol Burnett.
	www.amctv.com /person/detail/0,,4847-1-PST,00.html (474 words)

	Mike Nichols Summary
		Mike Nichols was born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany on November 6, 1931.
		Nichols and Sawyer married in the spring of 1988.
		Nichols was born to a Russian Jewish family in 1931.
	www.bookrags.com /Mike_Nichols (2706 words)

	CD Baby: MIKE NICHOLS: On My Sleeve
		Mike began writing in earnest again in the fall of 2000, and after finding a studio that would record his music, one song led to another.
		Mike is special, a hero, he is a fighter, he is a dreamer, and he is completely, fully saturated with love.
		Mike uses many musical styles but I have to say my favorite is the tropical and funny Justin Why Did You Have To Bone Me. Many parents of young adults can relate to this tune, been there, had it happen to me. Thanks to Billy Peoples for turning me on to On My Sleeve.
	cdbaby.com /nichols (1656 words)

	Mike Nichols
		Nichols won a Tony Award when he made his Broadway directorial debut in 1963 with Neil Simon's hit comedy Barefoot in the Park.
		Nichols has won four Tonys for directing and one for producing the musical Annie in 1997.
		Nichols continues to direct for both film and stage: recent productions include the feature film Closer (2004), starring Jude Law and Natalie Portman, and a Broadway musical version of the popular Monty Python movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, called Spamelot.
	www.tribute.ca /DIRECTORS/bios/1063.htm (332 words)

	Mike Nichols
		Mike's abilities as researcher, writer, and teacher have included his studies and publications in such fields as psychical research, the occult, theology, mythology, folklore and music, as well as Witchcraft and Paganism.
		Many of Mike's articles -- including his beloved essays on the Pagan holidays -- have been available in the file areas of various Pagan computer bulletin boards since 1988, and have by now reached and influenced a worldwide readership.
		Note: This short author's intro was originally written for a Colorado Pagan newsletter which featured one of Mike's articles, then was later adapted as the biographical blurb for The Witches' Sabbats: And Other Reflections, by Mike Nichols, foreward and published by Ellen Cannon Reed, no longer in print.
	www.angelfire.com /mo3/paganfiles/library/mike_nichols.htm (541 words)

	BAM : Brooklyn Academy of Music
		Nichols confronts the male psyche (with a script by Jules Feiffer), contrasting the sex lives of sad-sack Sandy (Garfunkel) and libido-charged Jonathan (Nicholson).
		Nichols interweaves reality and doses of fantasy while maintaining an urgent pace; the result is a six-hour film that never feels boring.
		Nichols delicately balances the human element with a political agenda to offer a moving story about a woman faced with a difficult choice and a sense of duty.
	www.bam.org /film/MikeNichols.aspx (724 words)

	Mike Nichols
		Nichols was also one of the few directors to take the formidable talent and star power of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and use it to good purpose.
		Nichols and May both understand that the source material is essentially Charley's Aunt with racier dialogue, but they manage to bring a lot of the then-contemporary debate about family values into the mix.
		Nichols is after all a director who has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success for almost five decades.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/nichols.html (3306 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Waking: A Novel of Suspense: Books: Mike Nichols,Michael Nichols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mike Nichols paces his novel well and certainly doesn't wear out his welcome by keeping it a perfect length-- not too long.
		Nichols often breaks the pacing to bring his readers into long self-analyses that bring very little to the plot and that just seem to make the book drag a little in its down times.
		Nichols is adept at handling the many twists and turns of the psychological suspense thriller.
	www.amazon.ca /Waking-Novel-Suspense-Mike-Nichols/dp/0062734237 (1570 words)

	Mike Nichols Bio, News and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
		Nichols was born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany of a Russian father and German mother.
		Raised in New York City, Nichols attended the University of Chicago where, together with Elaine May and Paul Sills, he was one of the founding members of the comedy group The Compass, later renamed Second City.
		Nichols is a recipient of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors and is Chairman of the Board of Friends In Deed, a non-profit organization founded to provide support to those affected by life-threatening illness.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /director.php?id=417 (129 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Mike Nichols
		For nearly half a century, Mike Nichols has had such a varied and profound effect on our culture that probably no American has been left untouched by his genius.
		A child war refugee, Nichols, who was born Michael Peshkowsky, emigrated with his family to the United States to escape the Nazis.
		Soon after, Nichols and May broke from the group and their meteoric rise as a comedy team began in 1957, when they first performed in New York at the Village Vanguard and the Blue Angel.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=5730&source_type=A (669 words)

	Mike Nichols - Moviefone
		A deft humorist and social critic, director Mike Nichols has managed to skewer mainstream sensibilities in crowd-pleasing work throughout most of...
		A childhood war refugee from Germany, director, producer and writer Mike Nichols first rose to fame in the late 1950s as one half of a popular comedy act...
		Mike Nichols - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Mike Nichols Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/mike-nichols/104435/main (113 words)

	TWPT Talks with Mike Nichols
		A pioneer in the midwestern Pagan community, Nichols taught classes in Witchcraft for twenty years continuously from the 1970s to '80s in Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri, through the Communiversity and at his bookstore, The Magick Lantern.
		A founding member of the Coven of New Gwynedd, Nichols was the first Wiccan representative on the Kansas City Interfaith Council.
		Nichols is a lifelong student of the Craft and, after years of research, writing, and teaching, he still considers himself a student.
	www.twpt.com /mikenichols.htm (6091 words)

	Mike Nichols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After their 1960 hit Broadway show, {+An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, closed in 1961, however, they parted ways.
		Nichols began to direct plays in 1963, earning a sterling reputation for his work on a string of hits, including the Neil Simon comedies {+Barefoot in the Park and {+The Odd Couple.
		Turning his attention from sex to war, Nichols seemed to be on target for another timely success when he and Henry decided to tackle Joseph Heller's sardonic anti-war bestseller Catch-22 (1970).
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P104435 (966 words)

	Mike Nichols - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1939, his father fled the Nazis, moving the family to the U.S. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, he began work in improvisational comedy with the Compass Players troupe (a precursor to The Second City), and later started the long-running Midnight Special folk music program on radio station WFMT.
		They were accompanied by Chicago pianist Marty Rubenstein, host of the TV show "Marty's Place." Personal idiosyncrasies and tensions (the latter culminating in the out-of-town closing of A Matter of Position, a new play written by May and starring Nichols) eventually drove this great comic duo apart to pursue other projects in 1961.
		Nichols and May won the Grammy Award in 1961 for Best Comedy Performance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Nichols (934 words)

	Amazon.ca: Carnal Knowledge: Video: Mike Nichols,Jack Nicholson,Candice Bergen,Art Garfunkel,Ann-Margret,Rita ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As they go from youth to middle age, the movie, revolutionary at the time and wonderfully directed by Mike Nichols, follows their paths, examining how their attitudes toward women and sex are a reflection of their life values.
		Mike Nichols was on a roll after "The Graduate" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "Carnal Knowledge" is his most intimate film, and one of the most daring of the 1970s.
		Nichols always has the camera in the right place, or at least an interesting place.
	www.amazon.ca /Carnal-Knowledge-Mike-Nichols/dp/B00000JZIF (1571 words)

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		Mike Nichols is a great director who doesn’t often put a foot wrong.
		Director Mike Nichols was born in Berlin, Germany to a Russian father and a German mother.
		Mike Nichols's film is based on the tragic true story of Karen Silkwood, an employee of an Oklahoma plutonium plant who tries to raise public awareness about dangerous conditions at the site.
	www.lycos.com /info/mike-nichols--director-mike-nichols.html (544 words)

	Mike Nichols and Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Tater Chip Patches" is just one of the many characters Mike Nichols will present during his show.
		If you are ready for some side-splitting humor along with a variety of music from several genres including country, gospel, swing and 60's oldies, look no further than the Mike Nichols and Friends Show.
		Mike Nichols and Friends will keep you laughing with the hilarious characters "Tater Chip Patches" and "Posture Pedic", and unbelievable impersonations of various country stars.
	www.bransonshows.com /activity/MikeNicholsandFriends.cfm (180 words)

	Comedy College: Lessons in Laughter - Mike Nichols and Elaine May
		Nichols and May: Mike Nichols and Elaine May met at the University of Chicago where they created a dramatic style of comedy that was based more on character and motivation than snappy patter and gags.
		Material excerpted from: An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May (314 558 456-2); Copyright: Mercury Records, Inc. (1960).
		Mike Nichols and Elaine May Examine Doctors (314 558 457-2); Copyright: Mercury Records, Inc. (1962).
	comedycollege.publicradio.org /archive/nichols_may.shtml (173 words)

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		Mike Nichols’ new film Closer is a gift, an unassailable gift to movie critics.
		Based on Joseph Heller's critically acclaimed, best-selling novel, CATCH-22 is Mike Nichols's provocative antiwar satire that tells the frenetic tale of a group of World War II fliers trapped in the insanity of the Mediterranean.
		The Mike Nichols-directed Spamalot is inspired by the seminal comedy troupe's wacky 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a loose adaptation of the legend of King Arthur.
	www.lycos.com /info/mike-nichols.html (436 words)

	Mike Nichols - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Julia Roberts and Jude Law star in Mike Nichols' coldblooded examination of modern mating.
		Mike Nichols' HBO production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" brings the most glorious, most thrilling and most painful work of contemporary American theater into the living room.
		Charles Taylor reviews 'Primary Colors,' directed by Mike Nichols and starring JohnTravolta, Emma Thompson and Adrian Lester.
	dir.salon.com /topics/mike_nichols (218 words)

	Mike Nichols - Wikipedia
		Mike Nichols war 8 Jahre alt, als seine Eltern 1939 (Mutter Deutsche, Vater Russe) vor dem Nationalsozialismus aus Deutschland flohen und nach Chicago zogen.
		Nichols blieb jedoch dem Broadway als Autor und Regisseur verbunden und konnte mit Stücken wie Barefoot in the Park, Luv und The Odd Couple – Ein verrücktes Paar einige Publikumserfolge vorweisen.
		Danach konzentrierte sich Nichols wieder auf das Theater und konnte schließlich mit zwei Theater- Verfilmungen spektakuläre Erfolge feiern: 2003 erhielt die Miniserie Angels in America zahlreiche Preise, darunter allein 11 Auszeichnungen (bei 21 Nominierungen) bei den Emmy-Awards.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Nichols (607 words)

	Q&A: Eric Idle and Mike Nichols on ‘Spamalot’ - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
		Yet the director, the legendary Mike Nichols, and the show's creator, Eric Idle, an original Python, are still tweaking it.
		NICHOLS: After a week of rehearsals, I said to Hank [Azaria, who plays four roles, including Lancelot], "Jesus, you know the whole French taunter part already!" He said, "Mike, I've been off book since I was 12.
		NICHOLS: One of the things I love about the show is that it knows it has very little plot.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6999424/site/newsweek (1368 words)

	Mike Nichols
		Roberts is in early talks to board the project with her "Closer" director Mike Nichols.
		Mike Nichols discusses his latest film, "Closer" with Los Angeles Daily News.
		Columbia Pictures has tapped veteran filmmaker Mike Nichols to direct a feature adaptation of Patrick Marber's acclaimed stage drama "Closer," with a script penned by the playwright himself.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /p/mike_nichols/news.php (617 words)

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