“I know, what am I doing here?” he joked before breaking into song complete with a sparkling black suit and back-up dancers in white feathers.
A legend of film, theater and comedy in nearly equal measure, Mike Nichols was an unquestioned fixture of smart, urbane American culture across a relentlessly versatile, six-decade career that on stage or screen, reliably coursed with crackling intelligence.
“I know, what am I doing here?” he joked before breaking into song complete with a sparkling black suit and back-up dancers in white feathers.
A legend of film, theater and comedy in nearly equal measure, Mike Nichols was an unquestioned fixture of smart, urbane American culture across a relentlessly versatile, six-decade career that on stage or screen, reliably coursed with crackling intelligence.