Director Mike Nichols passed away yesterday at 83. Mr. Nichols was - TopicsExpress



          

Director Mike Nichols passed away yesterday at 83. Mr. Nichols was born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin on Nov. 6, 1931. Mr. Nichols’s father, from whom Mr. Nichols said he got his sense of humor, was a Jewish doctor from Russia who fled to America to escape the Nazis in 1938, Anglicizing part of his name — Nicholaiyevitch — to become Paul Nichols. Michael and his younger brother, Robert, joined him in New York the next year. Michael knew two sentences in English, he recalled in a 1964 interview in Life magazine: “I do not speak English” and “Please don’t kiss me.”
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:26:47 +0000

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