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Mike Nichols
A Life
Taschenbuch von Mark Harris
Sprache: Englisch

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A magnificent, NYT-bestselling biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges-some of the worst largely unknown before-by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back

Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and followed it with The Graduate, which won him an Oscar and became the third-highest-grossing movie ever.

Where he arrived is even more astonishing given where he had begun: born Igor Peschkowsky to a Jewish couple in Berlin in 1931, he and his younger brother were sent to America on a ship in 1939. The young immigrant boy caught very few breaks. He was bullied and ostracized-an allergic reaction had rendered him permanently hairless-and his father died when he was just twelve, leaving his mother alone and overwhelmed.

The gulf between these two sets of facts explains a great deal about Nichols's transformation from lonely outsider to the center of more than one cultural universe. In an incomparable portrait that follows Nichols from Berlin to New York to Chicago to Hollywood, Mark Harris explores, with brilliantly vivid detail and insight, the life, work, struggle, and passion of an artist and man in constant motion. Among the 250 people Harris interviewed: Elaine May, Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Tom Hanks, Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Lorne Michaels, and Gloria Steinem.

Mark Harris gives an intimate and evenhanded accounting of success and failure alike; the portrait is not always flattering, but its ultimate impact is to present the full story of one of the most richly interesting, complicated, and consequential figures the worlds of theater and motion pictures have ever seen. It is a triumph of the biographer's art.
A magnificent, NYT-bestselling biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges-some of the worst largely unknown before-by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back

Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and followed it with The Graduate, which won him an Oscar and became the third-highest-grossing movie ever.

Where he arrived is even more astonishing given where he had begun: born Igor Peschkowsky to a Jewish couple in Berlin in 1931, he and his younger brother were sent to America on a ship in 1939. The young immigrant boy caught very few breaks. He was bullied and ostracized-an allergic reaction had rendered him permanently hairless-and his father died when he was just twelve, leaving his mother alone and overwhelmed.

The gulf between these two sets of facts explains a great deal about Nichols's transformation from lonely outsider to the center of more than one cultural universe. In an incomparable portrait that follows Nichols from Berlin to New York to Chicago to Hollywood, Mark Harris explores, with brilliantly vivid detail and insight, the life, work, struggle, and passion of an artist and man in constant motion. Among the 250 people Harris interviewed: Elaine May, Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Tom Hanks, Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Lorne Michaels, and Gloria Steinem.

Mark Harris gives an intimate and evenhanded accounting of success and failure alike; the portrait is not always flattering, but its ultimate impact is to present the full story of one of the most richly interesting, complicated, and consequential figures the worlds of theater and motion pictures have ever seen. It is a triumph of the biographer's art.
Über den Autor
Mark Harris
Zusammenfassung
GLOWING LAUNCH, INSTANT NYT BESTSELLER: Harris appeared on Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, CBS Sunday Morning, and much more, propelled by blurbs from Tina Fey, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Steven Spielberg

ESSENTIAL FOR ANY STUDENT OF FILM OR THEATER: An incomparable behind-the-scenes tour of how movies and plays succeed or fail.

A CLASSIC BIOGRAPHY OF A LEGENDARY CREATIVE FORCE (AND "EGOT" WINNER): One of the few to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, Nichols bestrode both Hollywood and Broadway like a colossus for four decades.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCESS: Nichols's widow Diane Sawyer gave everyone from Elaine May to Meryl Streep the green light to talk to Harris, resulting in a truly definitive biography.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIV
674 S.
32 farbige Bildtaf.
ISBN-13: 9780399562266
ISBN-10: 0399562265
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Harris, Mark
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 205 x 139 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Harris
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,591 kg
Artikel-ID: 120569514
Über den Autor
Mark Harris
Zusammenfassung
GLOWING LAUNCH, INSTANT NYT BESTSELLER: Harris appeared on Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, CBS Sunday Morning, and much more, propelled by blurbs from Tina Fey, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Steven Spielberg

ESSENTIAL FOR ANY STUDENT OF FILM OR THEATER: An incomparable behind-the-scenes tour of how movies and plays succeed or fail.

A CLASSIC BIOGRAPHY OF A LEGENDARY CREATIVE FORCE (AND "EGOT" WINNER): One of the few to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, Nichols bestrode both Hollywood and Broadway like a colossus for four decades.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCESS: Nichols's widow Diane Sawyer gave everyone from Elaine May to Meryl Streep the green light to talk to Harris, resulting in a truly definitive biography.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIV
674 S.
32 farbige Bildtaf.
ISBN-13: 9780399562266
ISBN-10: 0399562265
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Harris, Mark
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 205 x 139 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Harris
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,591 kg
Artikel-ID: 120569514
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