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Natalie Portman says Mike Nichols was her only male mentor who wasn't 'creepy'
The actress said the late director was a 'genuine feminist', and the only male mentor who was never 'creepy' with her.
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Melanie Griffith says she was fined over £60,000 on 'Working Girl' for coming to work 'intoxicated'
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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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
