Nichols

[nik-uhlz]

noun

1. John, 1940–2023, U.S. novelist, known for his “New Mexico Trilogy,” beginning with The Milagro Beanfield War (1974).

2. Mike Michael Igor Peschkowsky, 1931–2014, U.S. stage and film director, born in Germany.

Nichols

/ ˈnɪkəlz /

noun

1. Peter ( Richard ). born 1927, British dramatist, whose works include A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967), the musical Privates on Parade (1977), and Blue Murder (1995)

Example Sentences

“When the president decides someone has to die, the military becomes his personal hit squad,” military analyst and former Republican Tom Nichols said Monday on MSNBC.

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“It’ll go this way, get a little pear-shaped, then it’ll come back this way,” Lauper says of the show, which is based on Mike Nichols’ 1988 movie about a secretary navigating the male-dominated business world.

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As the team at Beyond Fest continue to push the event in new directions, there is still a place for films like the North American premiere of a new 4K restoration of Mike Nichols’ ripe-for-rediscovery “The Day of the Dolphin,” a 1973 thriller starring George C. Scott in which dolphins are trained to carry out an assassination attempt on the president of the United States.

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At 27, with nearly zero name recognition, he horrified his then-agent by turning down a $10,000-a-week TV gig as a strait-laced psychiatrist to do a Mike Nichols theater production for just $110.

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Instead, he told Nichols he’d rather tangle with Anne Bancroft in “The Graduate,” only to be rejected as too handsome for the role.

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