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Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director. He worked across a range of genres and had an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. He is one of 19 people to have won all four of the major American entertainment awards: Emmy ...
Nov 20, 2014 · November 20, 2014 5:59am. Mike Nichols AFI Awards - H 2012. Getty Images. Hollywood woke up Thursday morning to the sad news that director Mike Nichols had died. The Graduate helmer was...
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Connection to Jon Hamm: Mike Nichols had a personal connection to Jon Hamm, the actor who portrays Don Draper in Mad Men. Hamm had worked with Nichols in the film "Friends with Kids," which was one of Nichols' last film credits before his passing . Symbolic Meaning: The mention of Mike Nichols in the episode could also carry symbolic meaning.
- ‘When Someone Dies, You Make Sense of It The Way You Can’ - Diana
- ‘This World Is Boring: You Should Write An Adventure Story’ - Pete
- ‘I Want to Burn This Place Down’ – Joan
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We ended the first part of season seven in a dreamlike state, with the ghost of Bert Cooper telling us The Best Things In Life Are Free. On Sunday night, we opened with Don and a woman in a mink coat, quite unsure whether this was a dream, a new girlfriend, a prostitute or a model. Of course, fashions change more quickly than attitudes and we soon ...
Ken Cosgrove took a central role with his defenestration at the hands of SC&P’s supposedly independent new owner, McCann. (Cosgrove rubbed them up the wrong way when the old company was sold and he worked there.) Ken’s exit was prefaced by his wife Cynthia telling him to quit. Watching this, I began to to write something about Ken as a cipher of Th...
Briefly, there were some great Joan and Peggy scenes. We saw them working as equals both with each other and with male counterparts at McCann. And yet – statuses change, attitudes don’t – they were still used as frat-boy fodder for the goons, leading to their falling out. In a recent interview, Weiner spoke of the pair’s relationship. “I feel like ...
Leiber and Stoller’s Is That All There Is? was a 1969 hit for Peggy Lee, whose version opened and closed the episode. A clue? “When that final moment comes and I’m breathing my last breath, I’ll be saying to myself: Is that all there is?” Was the Olympia Cafea subtle nodto John Belushi’s venue of the same name in Saturday Night Live? Or a real venu...
The specific tell that we’re in the 70s, apart from the moustaches, came when Don watched this speech by Nixon, announcing the Cambodian incursion. Joan’s line about “department stores being blown up by radicals every day” was a reference to the trial of the Panther 21, members of the Black Panthers who were charged in April 1969 with conspiring to...
In the build-up to this final burst of episodes, I’ve been trying to collate some of the best recent articles about the show. This isn’t comprehensive but all of the below are worth your time. I’ll keep collating them here in the run up to the end of it all. 1. A long interview with Weiner by my favourite MadMen chronicler, HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall....
Nov 20, 2014 · Nichols, who died Wednesday night in New York at 83, was a supreme orchestrator of material, talent and taste. In films like “The Graduate,” ’'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Carnal Knowledge,” he left not only a firm stamp of authorship.
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Nov 21, 2014 · Nov. 20, 2014. Mike Nichols, one of America’s most celebrated directors, whose long, protean résumé of critic- and crowd-pleasing work earned him adulation both on Broadway and in Hollywood,...
Nov 20, 2014 · Victoria Fleischer. Leave your feedback. Award-winning director Mike Nichols dies at 83. Arts Nov 20, 2014 11:39 AM EST. Mike Nichols, an award-winning director known for his versatility...
