Talk:Mike Nichols

Does he speak fluent German?

...and shouldn't he be listed in the german-american category? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.224.54.100 (talk) 01:38, August 28, 2007 (UTC) Reportedly would have extended conversations with Billy Wilder in German. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:2680:CD78:8D34:B377:290F:E8DE (talk) 06:31, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Father's name

"Nicholaievitch" does not sound like Russian name at all. It is more like a middle name (which is the name of father, i.e. Mike's grandfather). From Mike's middle name is seems, that his father's name was Igor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.244.221.2 (talk) 02:50, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - wrong link

Under the "Career" section, the following text appears "Nichols' career as a film director began with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966" but the link is the play and not the film. Would anyone like to fix this? Thanks Kvsh5 (talk) 21:16, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Health

did he not have bypass surgery?173.88.174.52 (talk) 01:27, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Assessment

I agree with the increase to C-class. There is a lot of good content, but the prose is choppy, with lots of stubby little paragraphs. It needs quite a bit of WP:MOS cleanup. Best of luck with future improvements. -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:58, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

The lead needs to be expanded to properly summarize the article. Feel free to list this article again once this concern and that of Ssilvers is addressed. Regards Hekerui (talk) 11:28, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Age when he left Germany?

There is an inconsistency. Nichol's birthday is listed as November 6, 1931, but then the body says: "In April 1938, when the Nazis were arresting Jews in Berlin, seven-year-old Michael and his three-year-old brother Robert were sent alone to the United States...." The birthday would make Nichols six in April 1938, not seven. He might have been seven when he arrived in the US, but not in April 1938.

Thomaso (talk) 13:27, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Death

"Nichols died suddenly from cardiac arrest on November 19, 2014". Cardiac arrest is not a cause of death, cardiac arrest is death. You cannot die 'from' cardiac arrest,

 Done Died of a heart attack. Jim Michael (talk) 19:55, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Wigs

The article states that, after age 4, Nichols lost all of his hair and wore wigs for the rest of his life. There is a photo of Nichols to the top right of the article. In that photo, that cannot possibly be a wig, can it? That seems like his natural hair, given the hairline, the part line, etc. Am I mistaken? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:03, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Mike bought the best as soon as he could afford it, and became adept at affixing his own hair and eyebrows. He also had access to the best professionals in the business on an on-call basis. 2601:243:4:E90A:D800:D163:C3B9:FF50 (talk) 04:20, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Meeting Elaine May

In the documentary film Becoming Mike Nichols, Nichols himself tells the story of seeing Elaine May in the front row of Miss Julie, but doesn’t make any mention of “making eye-contact”, telling it more as his becoming aware of her, not having any immediate contact or chemistry. He then says that he met her for the first time the next day, when he found her in the company of Paul Sills, to whom he wished to show a rave review of what he considered to have been a dreadful performance. May read the review over Sill’s shoulder, and the only interaction he records is that she laughed out loud (“Hah!”) once - again he makes no mention of chemistry. He then goes on to talk about meeting her at the station, but he tells it as that she - not he, as the article says - was the one who immediately and without warning, began to improvise a conversation as if they were spies. Jock123 (talk) 08:47, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Mrs Robinson

Further to the mention of the Becoming Mike Nichols documentary above, again Nichol’s recollection in the film regarding the song Mrs Robinson is different to the one given in the article here. In the documentary, he says that at the recording session, Paul Simon demoed a song entitled “Mrs Robinson”, solo on guitar, which Nichols hated. He asked if Simon had any other songs written for the movie, to which the reply was no. But he asked for a moment, and went over to Art Garfunkel, and they huddled together for a few moments, before returning, at which point Simon announced they would play “Here’s to You, Mrs Robinson”, and did the chorus of the song. At this point Simon admitted to Nichols that the song was being written as “Here’s to You, Mrs Roosevelt”. Nichols goes on to say that the acoustic guitar version with Simon & Garfunkel heard on the soundtrack has the “Di-di-di” introduction because Simon had not got a finished verse when the track was laid down for the film. Jock123 (talk) 12:27, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Resting Place

Mike was an East Coast denizen. Although the manner and place of the disposition of his remains is not publicly known, a Los Angeles resting place wouldn't be likely and isn't substantiated. 2601:243:4:E90A:D800:D163:C3B9:FF50 (talk) 04:41, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

cousins

I have found that when it comes to famous relations, Wikipedia is hit or miss. I'm please to report that Mike Nichols and Albert Einstein being third cousins twice removed (Einstien being Nichol's maternal grandfather Gustav Landauer's third cousin) is a hit. 2600:4040:5D38:1600:3D00:BB1C:C931:62F2 (talk) 14:30, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Notability as a commedian

I would suggest being a grammy winning comedian is deserving of "notability." If not as part of the lead, at least in the short description as someone looking for the Nichols of Nichols and May may not know he went on to become a very notable director. --John (User:Jwy/talk) 18:28, 7 September 2024 (UTC)