...Charlie Wilson’s War has been widely and favorably reviewed and is currently in its 10th printing. It is the basis of a Tom Hanks/Mike Nichols film of the same name, currently expected to be released by Universal Studios in late 2007.

...Feiffer served as an assistant for Will Eisner in the 1940s, learning to tell stories with words and pictures while working on Eisner's acclaimed The Spirit comic strip. Feiffer also wrote the stage play Little Murders, the screenplay for Mike Nichols's 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, illustrated the children's book classic The Phantom Tollbooth, wrote the book The Great Comic Book Heroes (an extract of which Quentin Tarantino adapted for a speech in his film Kill Bill), and won an Oscar in 1961 for his short animation "Munro"...

...Nichols formed a comedy team with Elaine May, with whom he appeared in nightclubs, on radio, released best-selling records, guested on several television programs and had their own show on Broadway, directed by Arthur Penn...

...She achieved her greatest fame, in the 1950s, from her improvisational comedy routines in partnership with Mike Nichols.

...Now a "name" actor, in 1970 Voight went on to join the all-star cast of Mike Nichols' ill-fated adaptation of Catch-22. Adapted by Buck Henry from Joseph Heller's comic anti-war novel, and featuring the acting talents of Voight, Alan Arkin as the main character of John Yossarian, Anthony Perkins, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Richard Benjamin, and Orson Welles, the film failed to connect with either the critics or audiences, despite the film's intentional parallels with the then-raging war in Vietnam...

...After playing the archbishop martyred by Henry II in the title role of Becket and British spy Alec Leamas in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, he and Taylor had a great success in Mike Nichols's film of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in which a bitter erudite couple spend the evening trading vicious barbs in front of their horrified and fascinated guests, played by George Segal and Sandy Dennis...

...Nixon graduated from Hunter College High School, and made theatrical history while a freshman at Barnard College in 1984, simultaneously appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols. She played the daughter of Jeremy Irons and Christine Baranski in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing while portraying a teenage runaway who encounters slimy Hollywood types two blocks away in David Rabe's Hurlyburly...

...On January 18, 2008 Aiken will join the Broadway cast of "Monty Python's Spamalot", playing one of the leads, Sir Robin, in the Tony Award-winning musical directed by Mike Nichols. Aiken is slated to stay with the production through May 4.

...Together they recorded several influential albums, including 1966's Sounds of Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, Bookends in 1968 and Bridge Over Troubled Water (1969). Simon and Garfunkel also contributed extensively to the soundtrack of the 1967 Mike Nichols film The Graduate (starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft). While writing Mrs. Robinson, Simon originally toyed with the title Mrs...

...They appeared together at President Jimmy Carter's inaugural gala and in a 1980 New Haven stage revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Swoosie Kurtz and James Naughton....

...Nichols has been married four times, most notably to TV journalist Diane Sawyer, whom he wed on April 29 1988. He has three children, Daisy (born 1964), Max (born 1974) and Jenny (born 1977)...

Sawyer has been married to film director Mike Nichols since April 29, 1988.

...Her additional feature credits include Ich und Er (USA: Me and Him, 1988), Queens Logic (1991), Café Society (1995), Miami Rhapsody (1995) and Blue Moon (2002). On television, Bishop starred in the Mike Nichols' series The Thorns and plays Lisa Ann Walter's mother on My Wildest Dreams. She has guest-starred on Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Murphy Brown...

...Cobb) *1966 - After the Fox - Director: Vittorio DeSica (with Peter Sellers and Victor Mature) *1967 - Barefoot in the Park - Director: Gene Saks (with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda) *1968 - The Odd Couple - Director: Gene Saks (with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau) *1969 - Sweet Charity - Director: Bob Fosse (with Shirley MacLaine, Chita Rivera and Sammy Davis Jr.) *1970 - The Out-of-Towners - Director: Arthur Hiller (with Jack Lemmon) *1971 - Plaza Suite - Director: Arthur Hiller (with Walter Matthau) *1972 - The Last of the Red Hot Lovers - Director: Gene Saks (with Alan Arkin) *1972 - The Heartbreak Kid - Director: Elaine May (with Cybill Shepard and Charles Grodin) *1975 - The Prisoner of Second Avenue - Director: Melvin Frank (with Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft) *1975 - The Sunshine Boys - Director: Herbert Ross (with Walter Matthau and George Burns) *1976 - Murder by Death - Director: Robert Moore (with Truman Capote, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven and Peter Sellers) *1977 - The Goodbye Girl - Director: Herbert Ross (with Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason) *1978 - The Cheap Detective - Director: Robert Moore (with Peter Falk, Louise Fletcher, Stockard Channing, Madeline Kahn, John Houseman, Nicol Williamson and Eileen Brennan) *1978 - California Suite - Director: Herbert Ross (with Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Walter Matthau, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby) *1980 - Seems Like Old Times - Director: Jay Sandrich (with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase) *1982 - I Ought To Be In Pictures - Director: Herbert Ross (with Walter Matthau) *1982 - Sonny Boys - Director: Rolf von Sydow (with Carl-Heinz Schroth and Johannes Heesters) *1983 - Max Dugan Returns - Director: Herbert Ross (with Matthew Broderick, Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Kiefer Sutherland and Donald Sutherland) *1984 - The Lonely Guy - Director: Arthur Hiller (with Steve Martin) *1985 - The Slugger's Wife - Director: Hal Ashby (with Michael O'Keefe and Rebecca De Mornay) *1988 - Biloxi Blues - Director: Mike Nichols (with Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken) *1991 - The Marrying Man - Director: Jerry Rees (with Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin) *1993 - Lost in Yonkers - Director: Martha Coolidge (with Richard Dreyfuss) *1995 - The Sunshine Boys - Director: John Erman (with Woody Allen and Peter Falk) *1998 - The Odd Couple II - Director: Howard Deutch (with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau) *2001 - Sonny Boys - Director: Jörg Hube (with Werner Schneyder and Dieter Hildebrandt) *2004 - The Goodbye Girl (with Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels for Turner Network Television) *2007 - The Heartbreak Kid

...In July 2001, Portman opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Mike Nichols, playing the role of Nina alongside Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The play opened at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park...

...In 2003 Wright reprised his role as Norman 'Belize' Arriaga in HBO's award-winning adaptation of Angels in America starring alongside screen veterans Al Pacino, Emma Thompson and Meryl Streep and directed by Mike Nichols. His performance garnered him an Emmy award as well as a Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries...

:For "The Phantom Editor" who re-cut George Lucas' Episode I of Star Wars, see Mike J. Nichols....

...That same year, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavily to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols' film The Graduate, which was released on January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to #1 as an album...

...If standing on your head on the roof helps you, it helps you - if you think so." There is a famous anecdote that one of his stage co-stars, Maureen Stapleton, told the director of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite: "I don't know what to do, I am scared of him." The director, Mike Nichols, replied, "My dear, everyone is scared of George C. Scott!"...

...They later reconciled and worked together many times, with May scripting his films The Birdcage and Primary Colors. They appeared together at President Jimmy Carter's inaugural gala and in a 1980 New Haven stage revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Swoosie Kurtz and James Naughton...

In 1966, Mike Nichols, began casting The Graduate. Negotiations with Warren Beatty and Robert Redford fell through, Hoffman auditioned for the role...