Who Was Mike Nichols When He Wasn't Playing Mike Nichols? It's Not An Easy Question
"Making stories was how Nichols coped with the world. The biographical question is: why was there a need to cope? The answer is not mysterious. Nichols was unusually self-aware, and he liked to talk about his life. To some extent, the Mike Nichols story is a story by Mike Nichols." " The New Yorker