Director , comedian , andEGOT - winning badass Mike Nicholsdied yesterday . Nichols set out his start in comedy , first as an improviser and then as part of a duo with the as legendary Elaine May .
Even though he was curious as diddlyshit he make up one’s mind he desire to get into serious filmmaking and theatre , and lead a cosmic string of critically lauded films and plays over the course of decades . The Graduate is probably his considerably - known film , but he also helmed Who ’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? , Primary Colors , The Birdcage , the HBO miniseries Angels in America , Working Girl , and Charlie Wilson ’s War .
Nichols ’ personal life was as eventful as his calling . He escape Nazi Germany at years 9 to come to the U.S. , and is a distant relative of Albert Einstein . Married four clock time , he romance Diane Sawyer , fathered children , andthought sawhorse were purple .
The Graduate is a knockout field of study in ambivalence , the depressed edges of suburbia , and the folly of Romantic Movement . It hasthe most perfect endingto any movie . find out it some sentence before long to celebrate the great man who directed it .
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