The Graduate is a milestone film (the third highest grossing movie ever) for Baby Boomers, who felt for the first time that Hollywood understood their generation and what it was striving to achieve.

Iconic director of stage and screen Mike Nichols died of cardiac arrest on Nov. 19. He was 83. Among the many accomplishments of Nichols’ esteemed career is the immense effect he had on the Broadway ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than a decade after his death, treasured American filmmaker Mike Nichols still inspires contemporary masters like Noah ...

Broadway and Hollywood director Mike Nichols died today at 83. He was best known for his films The Graduate and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but was also one of only about a dozen people in the ...

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