TY - BOOK AU - Carter,Ash AU - Kashner,Sam TI - Life isn't everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends SN - 9781250112873 AV - PN1998.3.N54 C37 2020 U1 - 791.4302/33092B 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Henry Holt and Company KW - Nichols, Mike KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - United States KW - Biography N1 - Includes index; P.B; Introduction: The Burton stakes -- Dybbuks and Golems -- To sell another drink -- Premise envy -- Don't act it funny -- It all started in the alley -- The Citizen Kane of disaffected youth -- Icarus was falling -- Shift your weight -- Under the Balthus -- Can I get a wild take? -- Caviar for the general -- A means to egress -- Like church, but a fun church -- Making friends with death -- Epilogue: That guru thing N2 - "An up-close and personal portrait of legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian Mike Nichols, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts-from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels"-- ER -