Wikio - Mike Nichols

Monty Python's Spamalot, Palace, London (The Stage)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:38:57 GMT

... Soderquist, Andrew Spillett, Ross Dawes, Jake Nightingale, Michael Xavier, Adam Stafford Director: Mike Nichols Design: Tim Hatley Sound: Acme Sound Partners Lighting: Hugh Vanstone Choreography: Casey Nicholaw Run time: 2hr 20mins Website: Production information can change over the run of the show.Run sheet LondonSeptember 30 2006-27 Do you believe the information shown here is incorrect?...

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Honda grows while US auto industry falters (kansascity.com)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:15:00 GMT

When consumers astonished the U.S. auto industry two months ago by quickly shunning trucks and going for gas mileage, the biggest beneficiary ended up being Honda Motor Co.

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Pineapple Express and A Brief History Of Plot Songs (SpoutBlog)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:05:17 GMT

... Harris’ Pictures at a Revolution , Paul Simon was under contract to write three original songs for Mike Nichols’ movie. He turned in two, and Nichols liked neither. “Have you got anything else?” the director asked. Simon and Art Garfunkel apparently “muttered to each other” for a few minutes, and then played a song-in-progress, which was then called “Mrs. Roosevelt,” “about...

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Are Eight Bedrooms Enough to Break a Record? 1030 Fifth Duplex Listed for $47.5 M. (The New York Observer)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:04:44 GMT

This May, it took Christine Wasserstein less than a week to find a buyer for her $34 million apartment (which she’d kept after a divorce from New York magazine owner Bruce Wasserstein). Her neighbors at 1030 Fifth Avenue —where, for example, Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols live in Robert Redford’s old penthouse—were probably impressed. Barnard trustee Karen Fleiss , who founded the hedge...

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mike Nichols Column: Life's Lessons Reflected in a Lake (Red Orbit )

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:02:29 GMT

By Mike Nichols, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jun. 30--There are two beaches separated by an outcropping that I am told was once a pier at the state park in northern Ozaukee County known as Harrington.

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Gameday: Yankees at Mets (Game 2) (Hot Foot)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:48:47 GMT

... get hot, and he has shown throughout his career that he can, than watch out NL. Lineup courtesy of Mike Nichols at Metsblog . As always, to char during the game head to The Hot Foot Bleachers . ShareThis

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Is MAMMA MIA! This Summer's HAIRSPRAY!? (Ain't it Cool News)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:27:23 GMT

When Meryl Streep sings, good films tend to happen. Mike Nichols's POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE is an underrated early 90s flick based on the hard-drugging biography of Princess Leia, DEATH BECOMES HER has its moments, and A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION is a modest, but strangely perfect swan song for the great Robert Altman. But Meryl singing ABBA... that's going to put this theory to the test....

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Charles van de Putte, CPI Card Group, Receives CQA-Certified Quality Auditor (PR News Wire )

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:15:00 GMT

... of, and a commitment to, quality techniques and practices in their job and career," explains Mike Nichols, President, American Society for Quality. CPI -- Nevada manufactures all general-purpose plastic cards that do not require Visa/MasterCard security. It is the only ISO 9001:2000 registered plant serving the general-purpose plastic card market, and Mr. van de Putte is CPI --...

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News: Mets Acquire Trot Nixon (Mike Nichols/MetsBlog.com) (Ballbug)

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:55:47 GMT

Mike Nichols / MetsBlog.com : News: Mets Acquire Trot Nixon — Following tonight's game, Omar Minaya announced the Mets have acquired OF Trot Nixon from the Diamondbacks for cash or a player to be named later. — Nixon was batting .309 with a .437 OBP, 15 2B, 10 HR and 31 RBI in 181 at-bats for the D-backs Triple-A Tucson affiliate.

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"War, Inc.": A fine way to occupy your time, if not a country (Seattle Times)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:23:26 GMT

... dramas ("Full Metal Jacket"). But the film is really more reminiscent — in a good way — of Mike Nichols' flawed but compelling adaptation of "Catch-22," another movie that attacks war as a business opportunity and haven for dealmakers."War, Inc." has an interesting director at the helm: Joshua Seftel, who made an eye-opening (and, as with "War, Inc.," politically contrarian) documentary...

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"They become their parents" (Lance Mannion)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:33:55 GMT

... the credits roll. This is a happy ending? When asked what happens to Ben and Elaine now, director Mike Nichols is said to have replied, They become their parents. This is a stunning and, if he meant it, heartless thing for him to say. Early in the movie Ben tells his father what he wants his life to be like. “Different.” Different from the life his father’s led, different from the...

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The Graduate (John Baker's Blog)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:48:43 GMT

... the credits roll. This is a happy ending? When asked what happens to Ben and Elaine now, director Mike Nichols is said to have replied, They become their parents. ShareThis

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Eye: Display Cases (Women's Wear Daily)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:23:12 GMT

... I don't want to have to start flapping my arms to get air," joked Diane Sawyer, whose husband, Mike Nichols, and Donald Marron were being honored.After dinner, many of the grown-ups decamped and a flood of youngsters packed the outdoor after party to watch M.I.A. perform an energetic set. The Sri Lanka-born rapper certainly had a reason to be in a good mood: She was sporting a diamond...

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Analyst: There’s a great future in iPhone apps (Venture Beat)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:26:27 GMT

In Mike Nichols’ 1967 film The Graduate , Mr. Maguire (Walter Brooke) takes young Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) aside to tell him, “there’s a great future in plastics.” One can almost imagine Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster saying the same thing today about 3rd party applications on the iPhone and iPod Touch. The market for these apps could be over $1 billion by next year, Munuster wrote in his research...

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Hollywood Historians Hold Hot Tub Party (James Wolcott's Blog)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:41:27 GMT

... bugged about the slick, pandering chicaneries of Charlie Wilson's War , which was directed by Mike Nichols, who, not so cowinkadinkily, got his start as the director of tonight's flashback classic, The Graduate, the bourgeois countercultural satire that gave us Dustin Hoffman, Mrs. Robinson, and the word "plastics" as a pop culture punchline.** How major a phenomenon was The Graduate?...

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An Art Party at the MoMa Sculpture Garden (VF Daily)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:19:47 GMT

The MoMa sculpture garden came alive last night as members of New York City’s art elite gathered in the urban oasis for the museum’s “Party in the Garden,” one of the more anticipated annual art parties on the social calendar. This year’s benefit, which raised $2.7 million, honored director Mike Nichols and longtime MoMa trustee Donald Marron. Guests in black tie stepped out of towncars...

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M.I.A. Rocks the MoMA Sculpture Garden (Vulture)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:00:35 GMT

At last night's MoMA Party in the Garden, stars like Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols kept cool while LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy D.J.-ed and M.I.A. performed. After telling New York 's Jada Yuan that she's canceling her European tour , she showed no signs of fatigue during her electric set. New York was there to capture the evening on video.

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Claire Danes is a MoMA MAven (Just Jared)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:25:01 GMT

... , and acclaimed multi-award-winning televison, stage, and film director, writer, and producer Mike Nichols . Proceeds benefited the Museum’s general operating fund, helping to make possible its award-winning educational programs. 10+ pictures inside of MoMa maven Claire Danes … (more…)

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Charlie Wilson's War (TheCelebrityCafe.com)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:55:09 GMT

... assistance from a renegade CIA agent, Gust Avraktos (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Master of his craft, Mike Nichols adds another great film to the long list of achievements from his extensive career. One great thing about this movie is there is no fat on it. It’s short and sweet (under 100 minutes) and there are no extraneous parts that drag on. Everything is essential. It’s great seeing...

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Obama Handles Clinton (The Daily Dish)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:31:14 GMT

I have no idea what was said and would one day love to see a Mike Nichols recreation, but how canny for Obama to go to her house. The symbolism of deference, the crossing of her threshhold, makes for extremely...

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