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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 ...
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- 1955–2014
- November 19, 2014 (aged 83), New York City, U.S.
- University of Chicago
- ‘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....
Poe. In Episode 8 of Season 7 of Mad Men, titled "Severance," the episode was dedicated to the memory of Mike Nichols, a renowned director. The mention of Mike Nichols holds significance in the context of the episode and the show as a whole.
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Feb 11, 2021 · Mike was born in 1931, so if you think of men of his generation, there aren’t a lot, besides him, whose formative creative collaboration was with a woman who was at least his equal, whom he ...
Apr 6, 2015 · The final episode of the final season of "Mad Men" pays tribute to the late director Mike Nichols, who died in 2014. The episode follows Don Draper and his co-workers as they face a casting session for a fur company and a department store, and revisit their past and present relationships. The episode also features a dream sequence with Rachel Menken, the love interest of Don's ex-wife Betty.
Feb 3, 2021 · Nichols died in 2014 at age 83, just ten years after what might have been his biggest triumph, a miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner's play Angels in America. Nichols, with his quicksilver mood ...
With Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones. A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.
