mike nichols Archives – Jewish Journal

Caroline Aaron on Playing Shirley Maisel: She’s a Liberated Woman for the Times

Gerri Miller December 4, 2019

Did You Hear About the Book on Jewish Comedy?

Jonathan Kirsch October 20, 2017

New HBO doc explores Mike Nichols’ journey from Nazi Germany to Hollywood

Tom Tugend February 17, 2016

In 1939, a 7-year-old Jewish boy named Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky left Nazi Germany and, accompanied only by his 4-year-old brother, arrived in New York with an English vocabulary consisting of two phrases: “I don’t speak English” and “Please don’t kiss me.”

Award-winning American director Mike Nichols dies at 83

Jewish Journal November 20, 2014

Mike Nichols, a nine-time Tony Award winner on Broadway and the Oscar-winning director of films such as \”Who\’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,\” \”The Graduate\” and \”Carnal Knowledge,\” died on Wednesday at age 83, ABC News said.\n

Well Versed

Gene Lichtenstein November 9, 2000

The trouble with reading Judith Viorst\’s delightful new book of verse, \”Suddenly Sixty, And Other Shocks of Later Life,\” is that you recognize another decade has gone by in her life and so, presumably, in yours as well. \”Suddenly Sixty \”follows on the high heels of those earlier guideposts – \”It\’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty,\” \”How Did I Get to Be Forty,\” and \”Forever Fifty\” – and like them charts the changes and new quirks in her life as another 10 years flit by.