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In 'Becoming Mike Nichols' a Legend Speaks, One Last Time
When Douglas McGrath set out to make a documentary about Mike Nichols, he found the iconic director most excited to talk about his early work, up to and including perhaps his most defining movie, The Graduate.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenDirector Douglas McGrath's new HBO documentary Becoming Mike Nichols charts the rise of the legendary director of hits on stage and screen. The film covers two interviews with Nichols, one of only 12 people in the world to win Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Oscar -- the last of those for his second film, The Graduate. The interviews, his last on tape, were recorded only four months before Nichols died at the age of 83.
Photo: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? film editor Sam O'Steen and Mike Nichols in 1965 (Bob Willoughby, mptvimages.com, courtesy of HBO)
