Mike Nichols

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    Melanie Griffith says 'Working Girl' director made her pay $80,000 for being drunk on set

    Melanie Griffith has revealed that she was fined for coming to work on the 1988 movie "Working Girl "while under the influence.

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    Role Recall: Richard Dreyfuss on doubting 'Jaws,' coping with an abusive Bill Murray on 'What About Bob?' and more

    Richard Dreyfuss tells behind-the-scenes stories from his most beloved films, including "American Graffiti," "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "The Goodbye Girl," "Stand By Me" and "What About Bob?"

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    Stream This: Carrie Fisher's 'Postcards From the Edge'

    Carrie Fisher will always be valorized for her role in saving an entire galaxy from Imperial tyranny as heroic princess-turned-general, Leia Organa. It’s a tale that has obvious similarities to Fisher’s own life story as the child of Hollywood royalty — Debbie Reynolds (who died one day after her daughter, on Dec. 28) and Eddie Fisher — who publicly struggled with drug addiction, although she resisted discussing how much of the semi-autobiographical plot was actually her own.

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    Red Carpet Flashback! ‘The Birdcage’ Turns 20

    Twenty years ago this week, The Birdcage, the zany remake of the French farce La Cage aux Folles hit theaters. Directed by Mike Nichols, the comedy stars Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a flamboyant Miami couple who have to pretend to be both traditional and straight to impress their ultraconservative future in-laws. Stars came out to celebrate the film’s premiere on both coasts — at a New York premiere on March 3, followed by one in Los Angeles on March 5, 1996. Click through to see who walke

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    'American Masters: Mike Nichols': A Genius For Comedy

    American Masters kicks off its 30th season on Friday night with a profile of Mike Nichols, best known now, I suppose, as the director of The Graduate and the HBO movie of Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America. May has directed this American Masters, which relies heavily on Julian Schlossberg’s interviews with Nichols, who died in 2014. The result is a fairly vivid portrait of Nichols, who, after the break-up of the Nichols and May act, became one of the most successful theater and film directo

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    Mike Nichols Regretted Not Directing 'The Exorcist'

    Looking back on the 40-year film career of legendary director Mike Nichols, it almost seems he could do no wrong. Nichols, who passed away one year ago this November, is the man behind such classics as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, Working Girl, and The Birdcage, and was racking up awards well into his 70s. In the October issue of Vanity Fair, which features a collection of reminiscences from Nichols’ famous friends, film and music mogul David Geffen told the

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    Mike Nichols on Three of His Biggest Hits: 'The Graduate,' 'The Birdcage,' and 'Working Girl'

    Mike Nichols, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 83, had a career as a film director that spanned four decades and encompassed some of the most entertaining movies in Hollywood history. It took enormous artistic courage,” Dustin Hoffman has said of Mike Nichols casting him in The Graduate. As hard as it is to imagine anyone else playing Benjamin Braddock, the decision to choose the unknown Hoffman over a more conventional leading-man type — like Robert Redford, who gunned for the role