Mike Nichols, 'The Graduate' Director, Dead at 83

The director Mike Nichols, who won the 1968 best director Oscar and enjoyed a long screen and stage career, has died at the age of 83.

Marrying Nichols changed that. He had a Manhattan townhouse, a home in Santa Barbara, California, and a Connecticut country home, and she embraced it all. "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I moved in with Mike and discovered his homes 

It would be too much to say that Mike Nichols contained multitudes, but, whatever was going on in there, it must have been a hell of a party. Now that he has died, those of us who never met the guy are left to ponder just how many guys there were to

The closest I ever got to Mike Nichols was in a Los Angeles living room when I was maybe five years old. My parents had an old comedy record by Nichols and May —May being Elaine May, the actress, writer and director in her own right, who partnered

Mike Nichols, the Academy Award-winning director of films like The Graduate and The Birdcage and a nine-time Tony Awards winner, has passed away at the age of 83. Good Morning America reports that the filmmaker died suddenly Wednesday night of