Life isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends
Ash Carter and Sam Kashner
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Life isn't Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends
Ash Carter and Sam Kashner
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
For practitioners of what used to be called the lively arts, Life Isn’t Everything, an oral biography of Mike Nichols, is manna from heaven, its brilliantly orchestrated polyphony bringing him, his work, and his world to vivid life.
Carter and Kashner have skillfully handled things.
...a captivating oral history of the late director Mike Nichols.
Legendary director Mike Nichols...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,'.
...a flawed but fascinating oral history that covers the eight decades of Nichols’s extraordinary life and career.
... a marvelous oral biography with recollections from actors, filmmakers, and friends.
... a fascinating oral history.
... there is a long section about the Nichols-and-May years that launched his career, there is no contribution from Elaine May. And that the book skids over his three previous marriages and his three children, focusing instead on his fourth marriage, to Diane Sawyer. And that there is no mention of what a biography of Richard Avedon describes as Nichols’ secret 10-year affair with the photographer.
...[a] candid, intimate portrayal.