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Buy this shirt: https://thormask.com/product/fred-g-sanford-paint-shirt/ The first Broadway play I ever saw was a matinee performance of David Rabe’s Streamers, a shattering tale of masculinity, racism, and homophobia set during the Vietnam War that was playing at Lincoln Center in the summer of 1976. I walked out of that theater stunned and not sure what to do next, so I walked around the city for what must have been hours, trying to absorb what I had just seen.That play was directed by Mike Nichols, a fact I had forgotten until this week, when I was reading Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press), Mark Harris’s fascinating, exhaustively researched, and utterly absorbing biography of the cultural polymath, someone who seemed to move effortlessly between the theater and the movies, conquering them both.It turns out that Streamers came to Nichols at a critical point in both his career and his personal life. A star in his 20s, when he teamed up with Elaine May to create their now legendary comedy team; a wunderkind on Broadway, where he won Tony Awards for the first three plays he directed (Barefoot in the Park, Luv, and The Odd Couple); and then a Hollywood phenomenon, nominated for a directing Oscar for his debut effort (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and then winning that Oscar for his second (The Graduate), Nichols suddenly seemed to have lost his magic touch around the time Streamers was sent to him to read.He had suffered the first real flops of his career—the misfire of Catch-22, followed by The Day of the Dolphin, and The Fortune—and had begun to envy the work of colleagues, like Milos Forman and Robert Altman, who were redefining American cinema. He had also ended the second of his first two marriages, a notably brief union of 11 months, and had moved on to his third. (Decades later, when Aaron Sorkin asked Nichols when he realized his brief marriage wasn’t going to work, he darkly answered, “When she pulled a knife on me.”) Throughout his life, Nichols would have a string of high-profile romances, from Gloria Steinem to the novelist and New Yorker film critic Penelope Gilliatt and a one-sided pursuit of Jackie Onassis, before finding what turned out to be the perfect match in Diane Sawyer, his fourth and final wife. (In an extended footnote, Harris swats away the conjecture, raised in a recently published book about Richard Avedon, that the director and photographer had a clandestine 10-year romantic relationship. “I remained open to any information about Nichols’s history with men that was specific and/or confirmable,” Harris writes. “I found none.”)Streamers marked a return to form for Nichols. It would bring him sold-out audiences, rave reviews, and yet another Tony nomination. It would also establish a pattern that lasted nearly a lifetime: triumph followed by setback, often accompanied by crippling depression (and occasionally substance abuse), followed by yet another successful comeback. It was a roller-coaster life that, no matter how challenging it might have been for Nichols, makes a thrilling tale for the reader.Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky (or Igor Michael Peschkowsky—the record is muddled) in Berlin, the son of a Russian-born father and a German mother, Nichols, as he would later become known, and his brother escaped to the U.S. as Jewish refugees in 1939. An intelligent but indifferent student, he was admitted to the University of Chicago (one of the few schools at the time that accepted applicants with subpar grades but sufficient test scores) and later became part of an improv group, where he met May. The two apparently despised each other on sight but ultimately formed a deep professional and personal bond that would last until Nichols’s death in 2014 at the age of 83.Nichols would start out as an actor, but once he gravitated toward directing, it was clear that he possessed almost an unrivaled gift that enabled him to move skillfully between comedies, dramas, and even musicals (as in Spamalot), making him the most successful director of his generation. In all, he would win nine Tonys (including two for producing) and two directing Emmys and garner four Oscar nominations in addition to his one win. (He and May would also win the 1961 Grammy Award for best comedy album.)Harris, the author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back (and the husband of playwright Tony Kushner, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America Nichols directed in an Emmy-winning adaptation), clearly has an empathy and a deep admiration for Nichols, but this is not a sugarcoated biography. The piercing cruelty Nichols could show toward performers, often pushing them to the edge of breakdown during rehearsals, is dealt with frankly. “At times, Nichols’s behavior bordered on the sadistic,” Harris writes, describing how during the filming of The Graduate he could be “tough, caustic, dismissive” of Dustin Hoffman, the young actor he had plucked out of obscurity to star as Benjamin Braddock. But so too is the adoration many of his colleagues felt toward him—particularly the women he trusted, nurtured, and closely collaborated with, among them Meryl Streep (Silkwood, Heartburn, Postcards From the Edge), Emma Thompson, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and, of course, Elaine May.The chapters covering Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate, two of Nichols’s greatest movies and indeed two of the greatest American movies of all time, are among the most engrossing. (Each chapter could have been turned into a book of its own.) Despite both films having been made six decades ago, with many of the key participants now dead, the narratives have a compelling you-are-there quality, as Harris chronicles the tricky business of directing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Woolf and in The Graduate describes a scene where Dustin Hoffman, secretly encouraged by Nichols, unexpectedly puts his hand on Anne Bancroft’s breast while Bancroft “without breaking character for second, glances at his hand, barely curious” and cooly examines a spot on the sweater she has just taken off. The burden of Mike Nichols: A Life is that it has to retain its readers’ attention to such a degree that they can resist the urge to put the book down for a few hours and watch a Nichols film. Throughout Mike Nichols: A Life, I had to constantly fight the desire to stream Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, to name just a few, until Harris’s skilled storytelling pulled me back in. But, finally, when I turned the last page, I opened my laptop, signed on to my Amazon Prime account, and began rewatching The Graduate. Sheer bliss. It’s hard to have any secrets when you occupy one of the most carefully scrutinized posts in the U.S., but still, don’t assume that you know everything about first lady Jill Biden. Biden, who turned 70 this month, is known for being upfront and honest, but there’s still more to her than meets the eye; below, find five of the most unexpected things you might not yet know about FLOTUS.1. She went through five proposals from Joe Biden before she said yes. “I had to be 100% sure that if Joe and I got married, it would be forever—for Beau and Hunter’s sake,” Biden wrote in 2019, explaining that she was eventually convinced to say yes—and she’s never regretted it.2. She’s an avid runner. Biden started running in the early ’90s, eventually competing in the 1998 Marine Corps Marathon, where she met her goal of a 4:30:32 finish time. (No small feat, especially for a non-Marine!)3. She’s a known prankster. To ring in April this year, Biden dressed up as a flight attendant during a flight from California to Washington, tricking members of the staff and press by wearing a short black wig and a name tag reading “Jasmine” and passing out ice cream bars. A pretty legendary April Fools’ stunt, to be honest.4. She’s a children’s-book author. In addition to her many other projects, Biden authored a children’s book titled Joey: The Story of Joe Biden, which was published in June of 2020. The book charts Joe Biden’s rise from the oldest of four siblings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to one of the youngest U.S. state senators ever elected.5. She’s a fan of the blind date (and might not be first lady if she weren’t). Biden met her now husband when she was still in college, on a blind date arranged by her brother. As she told Vogue in 2016, “I was a senior, and I had been dating guys in jeans and clogs and T-shirts. He came to the door, and he had a sport coat and loafers, and I thought, God, this is never going to work, not in a million years. He was nine years older than I am! But we went out to see A Man and a Woman at the movie theater in Philadelphia, and we really hit it off.” Math has never been my forte but from the time I entered the working world, a certain ratio seemed deranged to me: most Americans are on the job for 50 weeks, and only off for two. In between my third and fourth years of college, I studied abroad and lived with a family of three in Valencia, Spain. They dropped in the apartment for mid-day siestas, as is Spanish custom, and fled to various beaches for four weeks in August. It seemed gloriously cushy compared to the American grind. I’ve heard past colleagues brag about not taking all of their vacation days (as if leaving money on the table is a sign of dedication). A recent viral tweet was funny because it’s true (even if a little exaggeratory): European out-of-offices, it said, read something like: “I’m away camping for the summer. Email again in September,” compared to workaholic American OOOs: “I have left the office for two hours to undergo kidney surgery but you can reach me on my cell anytime.”Some companies in the U.S. seem to be waking up to the mental health benefits of more vacation. Bumble has shut down all of its offices this week, giving 700 employees an extra paid, “fully offline” week of vacation. The female-forward dating app made its $8.3 billion-dollar debut on the stock market in February and founder Whitney Herd “correctly intuited our collective burnout,” according to a since-deleted tweet from Bumble’s head of editorial content Clare O’Connor. “In the U.S. especially, where vacation days are notoriously scarce, it feels like a big deal.” As a spokesperson put it to CNBC: “Our global team has had a very challenging time during the pandemic. As vaccination rates have increased and restrictions have begun to ease, we wanted to give our teams around the world an opportunity to shut off and focus on themselves for a week.”In addition to normal vacation time, social media dashboard company Hootsuite will close its offices from July 5 through 12 for a “Wellness Week” so employees can “‘unplug’ together.” The pandemic, “reminded us how important mental health is,” Hootsuite said, citing stressors from increased time spent online during quarantine, rises in “depression, anxiety, loneliness, and uncertainty,” as well as the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latino communities, and the weight of Black Lives Matter protests and hate crimes against the Asian-American community.“The weight of these forces have fallen upon an already stressed-out and burned-out workforce,” Hootsuite said. “People have stopped taking much-needed time for self-care, or vacation time to process—in fact, they’re working more than ever before.” Working from home theoretically provides more flexibility—but it also makes it easier to further blur the lines between work and home. According to Bloomberg, people are working a minimum of two additional hours per day around the globe.There seems to be an increased awareness of the damages incurred by our nonstop American work culture: Naomi Osaka withdrawing from Wimbledon and the French Open, saying her anxiety and depression flare in the face of the media obligations, and Steph Curry deciding not to play in the Olympics in the interest of rest, are two high-level examples. “Quitting your job is hot this summer,” The Atlantic said this week, pointing to a finding from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that “more Americans quit in May than any other month on record going back to the beginning of the century.”The pandemic exposed the inequities of the American labor force—the contradiction that workers deemed “essential” aren’t paid or given benefits to match. About one in four workers—many of them hourly, low-wage workers—receive no guarantee of paid vacation at all, according to a 2019 report by the Center for Economic Policy and Research. (The report was aptly titled “No Vacation Nation.”) Meanwhile, the European Union guarantees four weeks of paid vacation each year by law. The U.S. is a long way off from a midday siesta, but like equal pay and paid leave, more vacation wouldn’t just be good for employees, it’s good for business. “Productivity requires ample breaks,” Hootsuite said in its Wellness Week announcement. “No one can run back-to-back marathons without burning out.” 6 Easy Step To Grab This Product: Click the button “Buy this shirt” Choose your style: men, women, toddlers, … Pic Any color you like! Choose size. Enter the delivery address. Wait for your shirt and let’s take a photograph. https://thormask.com This product belong to hung2 I Turned 16 In Quarantine 2021 None Of You Are Invited T Shirt Buy this shirt: https://thormask.com/product/fred-g-sanford-paint-shirt/ The first Broadway play I ever saw was a matinee performance of David Rabe’s Streamers, a shattering tale of masculinity, racism, and homophobia set during the Vietnam War that was playing at Lincoln Center in the summer of 1976. I walked out of that theater stunned and not sure what to do next, so I walked around the city for what must have been hours, trying to absorb what I had just seen.That play was directed by Mike Nichols, a fact I had forgotten until this week, when I was reading Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press), Mark Harris’s fascinating, exhaustively researched, and utterly absorbing biography of the cultural polymath, someone who seemed to move effortlessly between the theater and the movies, conquering them both.It turns out that Streamers came to Nichols at a critical point in both his career and his personal life. A star in his 20s, when he teamed up with Elaine May to create their now legendary comedy team; a wunderkind on Broadway, where he won Tony Awards for the first three plays he directed (Barefoot in the Park, Luv, and The Odd Couple); and then a Hollywood phenomenon, nominated for a directing Oscar for his debut effort (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and then winning that Oscar for his second (The Graduate), Nichols suddenly seemed to have lost his magic touch around the time Streamers was sent to him to read.He had suffered the first real flops of his career—the misfire of Catch-22, followed by The Day of the Dolphin, and The Fortune—and had begun to envy the work of colleagues, like Milos Forman and Robert Altman, who were redefining American cinema. He had also ended the second of his first two marriages, a notably brief union of 11 months, and had moved on to his third. (Decades later, when Aaron Sorkin asked Nichols when he realized his brief marriage wasn’t going to work, he darkly answered, “When she pulled a knife on me.”) Throughout his life, Nichols would have a string of high-profile romances, from Gloria Steinem to the novelist and New Yorker film critic Penelope Gilliatt and a one-sided pursuit of Jackie Onassis, before finding what turned out to be the perfect match in Diane Sawyer, his fourth and final wife. (In an extended footnote, Harris swats away the conjecture, raised in a recently published book about Richard Avedon, that the director and photographer had a clandestine 10-year romantic relationship. “I remained open to any information about Nichols’s history with men that was specific and/or confirmable,” Harris writes. “I found none.”)Streamers marked a return to form for Nichols. It would bring him sold-out audiences, rave reviews, and yet another Tony nomination. It would also establish a pattern that lasted nearly a lifetime: triumph followed by setback, often accompanied by crippling depression (and occasionally substance abuse), followed by yet another successful comeback. It was a roller-coaster life that, no matter how challenging it might have been for Nichols, makes a thrilling tale for the reader.Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky (or Igor Michael Peschkowsky—the record is muddled) in Berlin, the son of a Russian-born father and a German mother, Nichols, as he would later become known, and his brother escaped to the U.S. as Jewish refugees in 1939. An intelligent but indifferent student, he was admitted to the University of Chicago (one of the few schools at the time that accepted applicants with subpar grades but sufficient test scores) and later became part of an improv group, where he met May. The two apparently despised each other on sight but ultimately formed a deep professional and personal bond that would last until Nichols’s death in 2014 at the age of 83.Nichols would start out as an actor, but once he gravitated toward directing, it was clear that he possessed almost an unrivaled gift that enabled him to move skillfully between comedies, dramas, and even musicals (as in Spamalot), making him the most successful director of his generation. In all, he would win nine Tonys (including two for producing) and two directing Emmys and garner four Oscar nominations in addition to his one win. (He and May would also win the 1961 Grammy Award for best comedy album.)Harris, the author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back (and the husband of playwright Tony Kushner, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America Nichols directed in an Emmy-winning adaptation), clearly has an empathy and a deep admiration for Nichols, but this is not a sugarcoated biography. The piercing cruelty Nichols could show toward performers, often pushing them to the edge of breakdown during rehearsals, is dealt with frankly. “At times, Nichols’s behavior bordered on the sadistic,” Harris writes, describing how during the filming of The Graduate he could be “tough, caustic, dismissive” of Dustin Hoffman, the young actor he had plucked out of obscurity to star as Benjamin Braddock. But so too is the adoration many of his colleagues felt toward him—particularly the women he trusted, nurtured, and closely collaborated with, among them Meryl Streep (Silkwood, Heartburn, Postcards From the Edge), Emma Thompson, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and, of course, Elaine May.The chapters covering Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate, two of Nichols’s greatest movies and indeed two of the greatest American movies of all time, are among the most engrossing. (Each chapter could have been turned into a book of its own.) Despite both films having been made six decades ago, with many of the key participants now dead, the narratives have a compelling you-are-there quality, as Harris chronicles the tricky business of directing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Woolf and in The Graduate describes a scene where Dustin Hoffman, secretly encouraged by Nichols, unexpectedly puts his hand on Anne Bancroft’s breast while Bancroft “without breaking character for second, glances at his hand, barely curious” and cooly examines a spot on the sweater she has just taken off. The burden of Mike Nichols: A Life is that it has to retain its readers’ attention to such a degree that they can resist the urge to put the book down for a few hours and watch a Nichols film. Throughout Mike Nichols: A Life, I had to constantly fight the desire to stream Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, to name just a few, until Harris’s skilled storytelling pulled me back in. But, finally, when I turned the last page, I opened my laptop, signed on to my Amazon Prime account, and began rewatching The Graduate. Sheer bliss. It’s hard to have any secrets when you occupy one of the most carefully scrutinized posts in the U.S., but still, don’t assume that you know everything about first lady Jill Biden. Biden, who turned 70 this month, is known for being upfront and honest, but there’s still more to her than meets the eye; below, find five of the most unexpected things you might not yet know about FLOTUS.1. She went through five proposals from Joe Biden before she said yes. “I had to be 100% sure that if Joe and I got married, it would be forever—for Beau and Hunter’s sake,” Biden wrote in 2019, explaining that she was eventually convinced to say yes—and she’s never regretted it.2. She’s an avid runner. Biden started running in the early ’90s, eventually competing in the 1998 Marine Corps Marathon, where she met her goal of a 4:30:32 finish time. (No small feat, especially for a non-Marine!)3. She’s a known prankster. To ring in April this year, Biden dressed up as a flight attendant during a flight from California to Washington, tricking members of the staff and press by wearing a short black wig and a name tag reading “Jasmine” and passing out ice cream bars. A pretty legendary April Fools’ stunt, to be honest.4. She’s a children’s-book author. In addition to her many other projects, Biden authored a children’s book titled Joey: The Story of Joe Biden, which was published in June of 2020. The book charts Joe Biden’s rise from the oldest of four siblings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to one of the youngest U.S. state senators ever elected.5. She’s a fan of the blind date (and might not be first lady if she weren’t). Biden met her now husband when she was still in college, on a blind date arranged by her brother. As she told Vogue in 2016, “I was a senior, and I had been dating guys in jeans and clogs and T-shirts. He came to the door, and he had a sport coat and loafers, and I thought, God, this is never going to work, not in a million years. He was nine years older than I am! But we went out to see A Man and a Woman at the movie theater in Philadelphia, and we really hit it off.” Math has never been my forte but from the time I entered the working world, a certain ratio seemed deranged to me: most Americans are on the job for 50 weeks, and only off for two. In between my third and fourth years of college, I studied abroad and lived with a family of three in Valencia, Spain. They dropped in the apartment for mid-day siestas, as is Spanish custom, and fled to various beaches for four weeks in August. It seemed gloriously cushy compared to the American grind. I’ve heard past colleagues brag about not taking all of their vacation days (as if leaving money on the table is a sign of dedication). A recent viral tweet was funny because it’s true (even if a little exaggeratory): European out-of-offices, it said, read something like: “I’m away camping for the summer. Email again in September,” compared to workaholic American OOOs: “I have left the office for two hours to undergo kidney surgery but you can reach me on my cell anytime.”Some companies in the U.S. seem to be waking up to the mental health benefits of more vacation. Bumble has shut down all of its offices this week, giving 700 employees an extra paid, “fully offline” week of vacation. The female-forward dating app made its $8.3 billion-dollar debut on the stock market in February and founder Whitney Herd “correctly intuited our collective burnout,” according to a since-deleted tweet from Bumble’s head of editorial content Clare O’Connor. “In the U.S. especially, where vacation days are notoriously scarce, it feels like a big deal.” As a spokesperson put it to CNBC: “Our global team has had a very challenging time during the pandemic. As vaccination rates have increased and restrictions have begun to ease, we wanted to give our teams around the world an opportunity to shut off and focus on themselves for a week.”In addition to normal vacation time, social media dashboard company Hootsuite will close its offices from July 5 through 12 for a “Wellness Week” so employees can “‘unplug’ together.” The pandemic, “reminded us how important mental health is,” Hootsuite said, citing stressors from increased time spent online during quarantine, rises in “depression, anxiety, loneliness, and uncertainty,” as well as the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latino communities, and the weight of Black Lives Matter protests and hate crimes against the Asian-American community.“The weight of these forces have fallen upon an already stressed-out and burned-out workforce,” Hootsuite said. “People have stopped taking much-needed time for self-care, or vacation time to process—in fact, they’re working more than ever before.” Working from home theoretically provides more flexibility—but it also makes it easier to further blur the lines between work and home. According to Bloomberg, people are working a minimum of two additional hours per day around the globe.There seems to be an increased awareness of the damages incurred by our nonstop American work culture: Naomi Osaka withdrawing from Wimbledon and the French Open, saying her anxiety and depression flare in the face of the media obligations, and Steph Curry deciding not to play in the Olympics in the interest of rest, are two high-level examples. “Quitting your job is hot this summer,” The Atlantic said this week, pointing to a finding from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that “more Americans quit in May than any other month on record going back to the beginning of the century.”The pandemic exposed the inequities of the American labor force—the contradiction that workers deemed “essential” aren’t paid or given benefits to match. About one in four workers—many of them hourly, low-wage workers—receive no guarantee of paid vacation at all, according to a 2019 report by the Center for Economic Policy and Research. (The report was aptly titled “No Vacation Nation.”) Meanwhile, the European Union guarantees four weeks of paid vacation each year by law. The U.S. is a long way off from a midday siesta, but like equal pay and paid leave, more vacation wouldn’t just be good for employees, it’s good for business. “Productivity requires ample breaks,” Hootsuite said in its Wellness Week announcement. “No one can run back-to-back marathons without burning out.” 6 Easy Step To Grab This Product: Click the button “Buy this shirt” Choose your style: men, women, toddlers, … Pic Any color you like! Choose size. Enter the delivery address. Wait for your shirt and let’s take a photograph. https://thormask.com This product belong to hung2
Buy this shirt: https://thormask.com/product/fred-g-sanford-paint-shirt/ The first Broadway play I ever saw was a matinee performance of David Rabe’s Streamers, a shattering tale of masculinity, racism, and homophobia set during the Vietnam War that was playing at Lincoln Center in the summer of 1976. I walked out of that theater stunned and not sure what to do next, so I walked around the city for what must have been hours, trying to absorb what I had just seen.That play was directed by Mike Nichols, a fact I had forgotten until this week, when I was reading Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press), Mark Harris’s fascinating, exhaustively researched, and utterly absorbing biography of the cultural polymath, someone who seemed to move effortlessly between the theater and the movies, conquering them both.It turns out that Streamers came to Nichols at a critical point in both his career and his personal life. A star in his 20s, when he teamed up with Elaine May to create their now legendary comedy team; a wunderkind on Broadway, where he won Tony Awards for the first three plays he directed (Barefoot in the Park, Luv, and The Odd Couple); and then a Hollywood phenomenon, nominated for a directing Oscar for his debut effort (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and then winning that Oscar for his second (The Graduate), Nichols suddenly seemed to have lost his magic touch around the time Streamers was sent to him to read.He had suffered the first real flops of his career—the misfire of Catch-22, followed by The Day of the Dolphin, and The Fortune—and had begun to envy the work of colleagues, like Milos Forman and Robert Altman, who were redefining American cinema. He had also ended the second of his first two marriages, a notably brief union of 11 months, and had moved on to his third. (Decades later, when Aaron Sorkin asked Nichols when he realized his brief marriage wasn’t going to work, he darkly answered, “When she pulled a knife on me.”) Throughout his life, Nichols would have a string of high-profile romances, from Gloria Steinem to the novelist and New Yorker film critic Penelope Gilliatt and a one-sided pursuit of Jackie Onassis, before finding what turned out to be the perfect match in Diane Sawyer, his fourth and final wife. (In an extended footnote, Harris swats away the conjecture, raised in a recently published book about Richard Avedon, that the director and photographer had a clandestine 10-year romantic relationship. “I remained open to any information about Nichols’s history with men that was specific and/or confirmable,” Harris writes. “I found none.”)Streamers marked a return to form for Nichols. It would bring him sold-out audiences, rave reviews, and yet another Tony nomination. It would also establish a pattern that lasted nearly a lifetime: triumph followed by setback, often accompanied by crippling depression (and occasionally substance abuse), followed by yet another successful comeback. It was a roller-coaster life that, no matter how challenging it might have been for Nichols, makes a thrilling tale for the reader.Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky (or Igor Michael Peschkowsky—the record is muddled) in Berlin, the son of a Russian-born father and a German mother, Nichols, as he would later become known, and his brother escaped to the U.S. as Jewish refugees in 1939. An intelligent but indifferent student, he was admitted to the University of Chicago (one of the few schools at the time that accepted applicants with subpar grades but sufficient test scores) and later became part of an improv group, where he met May. The two apparently despised each other on sight but ultimately formed a deep professional and personal bond that would last until Nichols’s death in 2014 at the age of 83.Nichols would start out as an actor, but once he gravitated toward directing, it was clear that he possessed almost an unrivaled gift that enabled him to move skillfully between comedies, dramas, and even musicals (as in Spamalot), making him the most successful director of his generation. In all, he would win nine Tonys (including two for producing) and two directing Emmys and garner four Oscar nominations in addition to his one win. (He and May would also win the 1961 Grammy Award for best comedy album.)Harris, the author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back (and the husband of playwright Tony Kushner, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America Nichols directed in an Emmy-winning adaptation), clearly has an empathy and a deep admiration for Nichols, but this is not a sugarcoated biography. The piercing cruelty Nichols could show toward performers, often pushing them to the edge of breakdown during rehearsals, is dealt with frankly. “At times, Nichols’s behavior bordered on the sadistic,” Harris writes, describing how during the filming of The Graduate he could be “tough, caustic, dismissive” of Dustin Hoffman, the young actor he had plucked out of obscurity to star as Benjamin Braddock. But so too is the adoration many of his colleagues felt toward him—particularly the women he trusted, nurtured, and closely collaborated with, among them Meryl Streep (Silkwood, Heartburn, Postcards From the Edge), Emma Thompson, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and, of course, Elaine May.The chapters covering Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate, two of Nichols’s greatest movies and indeed two of the greatest American movies of all time, are among the most engrossing. (Each chapter could have been turned into a book of its own.) Despite both films having been made six decades ago, with many of the key participants now dead, the narratives have a compelling you-are-there quality, as Harris chronicles the tricky business of directing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Woolf and in The Graduate describes a scene where Dustin Hoffman, secretly encouraged by Nichols, unexpectedly puts his hand on Anne Bancroft’s breast while Bancroft “without breaking character for second, glances at his hand, barely curious” and cooly examines a spot on the sweater she has just taken off. The burden of Mike Nichols: A Life is that it has to retain its readers’ attention to such a degree that they can resist the urge to put the book down for a few hours and watch a Nichols film. Throughout Mike Nichols: A Life, I had to constantly fight the desire to stream Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, to name just a few, until Harris’s skilled storytelling pulled me back in. But, finally, when I turned the last page, I opened my laptop, signed on to my Amazon Prime account, and began rewatching The Graduate. Sheer bliss. It’s hard to have any secrets when you occupy one of the most carefully scrutinized posts in the U.S., but still, don’t assume that you know everything about first lady Jill Biden. Biden, who turned 70 this month, is known for being upfront and honest, but there’s still more to her than meets the eye; below, find five of the most unexpected things you might not yet know about FLOTUS.1. She went through five proposals from Joe Biden before she said yes. “I had to be 100% sure that if Joe and I got married, it would be forever—for Beau and Hunter’s sake,” Biden wrote in 2019, explaining that she was eventually convinced to say yes—and she’s never regretted it.2. She’s an avid runner. Biden started running in the early ’90s, eventually competing in the 1998 Marine Corps Marathon, where she met her goal of a 4:30:32 finish time. (No small feat, especially for a non-Marine!)3. She’s a known prankster. To ring in April this year, Biden dressed up as a flight attendant during a flight from California to Washington, tricking members of the staff and press by wearing a short black wig and a name tag reading “Jasmine” and passing out ice cream bars. A pretty legendary April Fools’ stunt, to be honest.4. She’s a children’s-book author. In addition to her many other projects, Biden authored a children’s book titled Joey: The Story of Joe Biden, which was published in June of 2020. The book charts Joe Biden’s rise from the oldest of four siblings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to one of the youngest U.S. state senators ever elected.5. She’s a fan of the blind date (and might not be first lady if she weren’t). Biden met her now husband when she was still in college, on a blind date arranged by her brother. As she told Vogue in 2016, “I was a senior, and I had been dating guys in jeans and clogs and T-shirts. He came to the door, and he had a sport coat and loafers, and I thought, God, this is never going to work, not in a million years. He was nine years older than I am! But we went out to see A Man and a Woman at the movie theater in Philadelphia, and we really hit it off.” Math has never been my forte but from the time I entered the working world, a certain ratio seemed deranged to me: most Americans are on the job for 50 weeks, and only off for two. In between my third and fourth years of college, I studied abroad and lived with a family of three in Valencia, Spain. They dropped in the apartment for mid-day siestas, as is Spanish custom, and fled to various beaches for four weeks in August. It seemed gloriously cushy compared to the American grind. I’ve heard past colleagues brag about not taking all of their vacation days (as if leaving money on the table is a sign of dedication). A recent viral tweet was funny because it’s true (even if a little exaggeratory): European out-of-offices, it said, read something like: “I’m away camping for the summer. Email again in September,” compared to workaholic American OOOs: “I have left the office for two hours to undergo kidney surgery but you can reach me on my cell anytime.”Some companies in the U.S. seem to be waking up to the mental health benefits of more vacation. Bumble has shut down all of its offices this week, giving 700 employees an extra paid, “fully offline” week of vacation. The female-forward dating app made its $8.3 billion-dollar debut on the stock market in February and founder Whitney Herd “correctly intuited our collective burnout,” according to a since-deleted tweet from Bumble’s head of editorial content Clare O’Connor. “In the U.S. especially, where vacation days are notoriously scarce, it feels like a big deal.” As a spokesperson put it to CNBC: “Our global team has had a very challenging time during the pandemic. As vaccination rates have increased and restrictions have begun to ease, we wanted to give our teams around the world an opportunity to shut off and focus on themselves for a week.”In addition to normal vacation time, social media dashboard company Hootsuite will close its offices from July 5 through 12 for a “Wellness Week” so employees can “‘unplug’ together.” The pandemic, “reminded us how important mental health is,” Hootsuite said, citing stressors from increased time spent online during quarantine, rises in “depression, anxiety, loneliness, and uncertainty,” as well as the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latino communities, and the weight of Black Lives Matter protests and hate crimes against the Asian-American community.“The weight of these forces have fallen upon an already stressed-out and burned-out workforce,” Hootsuite said. “People have stopped taking much-needed time for self-care, or vacation time to process—in fact, they’re working more than ever before.” Working from home theoretically provides more flexibility—but it also makes it easier to further blur the lines between work and home. According to Bloomberg, people are working a minimum of two additional hours per day around the globe.There seems to be an increased awareness of the damages incurred by our nonstop American work culture: Naomi Osaka withdrawing from Wimbledon and the French Open, saying her anxiety and depression flare in the face of the media obligations, and Steph Curry deciding not to play in the Olympics in the interest of rest, are two high-level examples. “Quitting your job is hot this summer,” The Atlantic said this week, pointing to a finding from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that “more Americans quit in May than any other month on record going back to the beginning of the century.”The pandemic exposed the inequities of the American labor force—the contradiction that workers deemed “essential” aren’t paid or given benefits to match. About one in four workers—many of them hourly, low-wage workers—receive no guarantee of paid vacation at all, according to a 2019 report by the Center for Economic Policy and Research. (The report was aptly titled “No Vacation Nation.”) Meanwhile, the European Union guarantees four weeks of paid vacation each year by law. The U.S. is a long way off from a midday siesta, but like equal pay and paid leave, more vacation wouldn’t just be good for employees, it’s good for business. “Productivity requires ample breaks,” Hootsuite said in its Wellness Week announcement. “No one can run back-to-back marathons without burning out.” 6 Easy Step To Grab This Product: Click the button “Buy this shirt” Choose your style: men, women, toddlers, … Pic Any color you like! Choose size. Enter the delivery address. Wait for your shirt and let’s take a photograph. https://thormask.com This product belong to hung2 I Turned 16 In Quarantine 2021 None Of You Are Invited T Shirt Buy this shirt: https://thormask.com/product/fred-g-sanford-paint-shirt/ The first Broadway play I ever saw was a matinee performance of David Rabe’s Streamers, a shattering tale of masculinity, racism, and homophobia set during the Vietnam War that was playing at Lincoln Center in the summer of 1976. I walked out of that theater stunned and not sure what to do next, so I walked around the city for what must have been hours, trying to absorb what I had just seen.That play was directed by Mike Nichols, a fact I had forgotten until this week, when I was reading Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press), Mark Harris’s fascinating, exhaustively researched, and utterly absorbing biography of the cultural polymath, someone who seemed to move effortlessly between the theater and the movies, conquering them both.It turns out that Streamers came to Nichols at a critical point in both his career and his personal life. A star in his 20s, when he teamed up with Elaine May to create their now legendary comedy team; a wunderkind on Broadway, where he won Tony Awards for the first three plays he directed (Barefoot in the Park, Luv, and The Odd Couple); and then a Hollywood phenomenon, nominated for a directing Oscar for his debut effort (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and then winning that Oscar for his second (The Graduate), Nichols suddenly seemed to have lost his magic touch around the time Streamers was sent to him to read.He had suffered the first real flops of his career—the misfire of Catch-22, followed by The Day of the Dolphin, and The Fortune—and had begun to envy the work of colleagues, like Milos Forman and Robert Altman, who were redefining American cinema. He had also ended the second of his first two marriages, a notably brief union of 11 months, and had moved on to his third. (Decades later, when Aaron Sorkin asked Nichols when he realized his brief marriage wasn’t going to work, he darkly answered, “When she pulled a knife on me.”) Throughout his life, Nichols would have a string of high-profile romances, from Gloria Steinem to the novelist and New Yorker film critic Penelope Gilliatt and a one-sided pursuit of Jackie Onassis, before finding what turned out to be the perfect match in Diane Sawyer, his fourth and final wife. (In an extended footnote, Harris swats away the conjecture, raised in a recently published book about Richard Avedon, that the director and photographer had a clandestine 10-year romantic relationship. “I remained open to any information about Nichols’s history with men that was specific and/or confirmable,” Harris writes. “I found none.”)Streamers marked a return to form for Nichols. It would bring him sold-out audiences, rave reviews, and yet another Tony nomination. It would also establish a pattern that lasted nearly a lifetime: triumph followed by setback, often accompanied by crippling depression (and occasionally substance abuse), followed by yet another successful comeback. It was a roller-coaster life that, no matter how challenging it might have been for Nichols, makes a thrilling tale for the reader.Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky (or Igor Michael Peschkowsky—the record is muddled) in Berlin, the son of a Russian-born father and a German mother, Nichols, as he would later become known, and his brother escaped to the U.S. as Jewish refugees in 1939. An intelligent but indifferent student, he was admitted to the University of Chicago (one of the few schools at the time that accepted applicants with subpar grades but sufficient test scores) and later became part of an improv group, where he met May. The two apparently despised each other on sight but ultimately formed a deep professional and personal bond that would last until Nichols’s death in 2014 at the age of 83.Nichols would start out as an actor, but once he gravitated toward directing, it was clear that he possessed almost an unrivaled gift that enabled him to move skillfully between comedies, dramas, and even musicals (as in Spamalot), making him the most successful director of his generation. In all, he would win nine Tonys (including two for producing) and two directing Emmys and garner four Oscar nominations in addition to his one win. (He and May would also win the 1961 Grammy Award for best comedy album.)Harris, the author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came Back (and the husband of playwright Tony Kushner, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America Nichols directed in an Emmy-winning adaptation), clearly has an empathy and a deep admiration for Nichols, but this is not a sugarcoated biography. The piercing cruelty Nichols could show toward performers, often pushing them to the edge of breakdown during rehearsals, is dealt with frankly. “At times, Nichols’s behavior bordered on the sadistic,” Harris writes, describing how during the filming of The Graduate he could be “tough, caustic, dismissive” of Dustin Hoffman, the young actor he had plucked out of obscurity to star as Benjamin Braddock. But so too is the adoration many of his colleagues felt toward him—particularly the women he trusted, nurtured, and closely collaborated with, among them Meryl Streep (Silkwood, Heartburn, Postcards From the Edge), Emma Thompson, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and, of course, Elaine May.The chapters covering Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate, two of Nichols’s greatest movies and indeed two of the greatest American movies of all time, are among the most engrossing. (Each chapter could have been turned into a book of its own.) Despite both films having been made six decades ago, with many of the key participants now dead, the narratives have a compelling you-are-there quality, as Harris chronicles the tricky business of directing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Woolf and in The Graduate describes a scene where Dustin Hoffman, secretly encouraged by Nichols, unexpectedly puts his hand on Anne Bancroft’s breast while Bancroft “without breaking character for second, glances at his hand, barely curious” and cooly examines a spot on the sweater she has just taken off. The burden of Mike Nichols: A Life is that it has to retain its readers’ attention to such a degree that they can resist the urge to put the book down for a few hours and watch a Nichols film. Throughout Mike Nichols: A Life, I had to constantly fight the desire to stream Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, to name just a few, until Harris’s skilled storytelling pulled me back in. But, finally, when I turned the last page, I opened my laptop, signed on to my Amazon Prime account, and began rewatching The Graduate. Sheer bliss. It’s hard to have any secrets when you occupy one of the most carefully scrutinized posts in the U.S., but still, don’t assume that you know everything about first lady Jill Biden. Biden, who turned 70 this month, is known for being upfront and honest, but there’s still more to her than meets the eye; below, find five of the most unexpected things you might not yet know about FLOTUS.1. She went through five proposals from Joe Biden before she said yes. “I had to be 100% sure that if Joe and I got married, it would be forever—for Beau and Hunter’s sake,” Biden wrote in 2019, explaining that she was eventually convinced to say yes—and she’s never regretted it.2. She’s an avid runner. Biden started running in the early ’90s, eventually competing in the 1998 Marine Corps Marathon, where she met her goal of a 4:30:32 finish time. (No small feat, especially for a non-Marine!)3. She’s a known prankster. To ring in April this year, Biden dressed up as a flight attendant during a flight from California to Washington, tricking members of the staff and press by wearing a short black wig and a name tag reading “Jasmine” and passing out ice cream bars. A pretty legendary April Fools’ stunt, to be honest.4. She’s a children’s-book author. In addition to her many other projects, Biden authored a children’s book titled Joey: The Story of Joe Biden, which was published in June of 2020. The book charts Joe Biden’s rise from the oldest of four siblings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to one of the youngest U.S. state senators ever elected.5. She’s a fan of the blind date (and might not be first lady if she weren’t). Biden met her now husband when she was still in college, on a blind date arranged by her brother. As she told Vogue in 2016, “I was a senior, and I had been dating guys in jeans and clogs and T-shirts. He came to the door, and he had a sport coat and loafers, and I thought, God, this is never going to work, not in a million years. He was nine years older than I am! But we went out to see A Man and a Woman at the movie theater in Philadelphia, and we really hit it off.” Math has never been my forte but from the time I entered the working world, a certain ratio seemed deranged to me: most Americans are on the job for 50 weeks, and only off for two. In between my third and fourth years of college, I studied abroad and lived with a family of three in Valencia, Spain. They dropped in the apartment for mid-day siestas, as is Spanish custom, and fled to various beaches for four weeks in August. It seemed gloriously cushy compared to the American grind. I’ve heard past colleagues brag about not taking all of their vacation days (as if leaving money on the table is a sign of dedication). A recent viral tweet was funny because it’s true (even if a little exaggeratory): European out-of-offices, it said, read something like: “I’m away camping for the summer. Email again in September,” compared to workaholic American OOOs: “I have left the office for two hours to undergo kidney surgery but you can reach me on my cell anytime.”Some companies in the U.S. seem to be waking up to the mental health benefits of more vacation. Bumble has shut down all of its offices this week, giving 700 employees an extra paid, “fully offline” week of vacation. The female-forward dating app made its $8.3 billion-dollar debut on the stock market in February and founder Whitney Herd “correctly intuited our collective burnout,” according to a since-deleted tweet from Bumble’s head of editorial content Clare O’Connor. “In the U.S. especially, where vacation days are notoriously scarce, it feels like a big deal.” As a spokesperson put it to CNBC: “Our global team has had a very challenging time during the pandemic. As vaccination rates have increased and restrictions have begun to ease, we wanted to give our teams around the world an opportunity to shut off and focus on themselves for a week.”In addition to normal vacation time, social media dashboard company Hootsuite will close its offices from July 5 through 12 for a “Wellness Week” so employees can “‘unplug’ together.” The pandemic, “reminded us how important mental health is,” Hootsuite said, citing stressors from increased time spent online during quarantine, rises in “depression, anxiety, loneliness, and uncertainty,” as well as the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latino communities, and the weight of Black Lives Matter protests and hate crimes against the Asian-American community.“The weight of these forces have fallen upon an already stressed-out and burned-out workforce,” Hootsuite said. “People have stopped taking much-needed time for self-care, or vacation time to process—in fact, they’re working more than ever before.” Working from home theoretically provides more flexibility—but it also makes it easier to further blur the lines between work and home. According to Bloomberg, people are working a minimum of two additional hours per day around the globe.There seems to be an increased awareness of the damages incurred by our nonstop American work culture: Naomi Osaka withdrawing from Wimbledon and the French Open, saying her anxiety and depression flare in the face of the media obligations, and Steph Curry deciding not to play in the Olympics in the interest of rest, are two high-level examples. “Quitting your job is hot this summer,” The Atlantic said this week, pointing to a finding from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that “more Americans quit in May than any other month on record going back to the beginning of the century.”The pandemic exposed the inequities of the American labor force—the contradiction that workers deemed “essential” aren’t paid or given benefits to match. About one in four workers—many of them hourly, low-wage workers—receive no guarantee of paid vacation at all, according to a 2019 report by the Center for Economic Policy and Research. (The report was aptly titled “No Vacation Nation.”) Meanwhile, the European Union guarantees four weeks of paid vacation each year by law. The U.S. is a long way off from a midday siesta, but like equal pay and paid leave, more vacation wouldn’t just be good for employees, it’s good for business. “Productivity requires ample breaks,” Hootsuite said in its Wellness Week announcement. “No one can run back-to-back marathons without burning out.” 6 Easy Step To Grab This Product: Click the button “Buy this shirt” Choose your style: men, women, toddlers, … Pic Any color you like! Choose size. Enter the delivery address. Wait for your shirt and let’s take a photograph. https://thormask.com This product belong to hung2
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