Mike Nichols died yesterday at the age of eighty-three. For those who knew and loved him"I count myself among them"his passing is no ordinary loss. Mike was inimitable. The son of a White Russian émigré and a German beauty, Nichols arrived in America at the age of seven, in 1939, with no English and no hair, the result of defective whooping-cough vaccine. His sense of otherness was total. "I was a zero," he told me…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 05:24PM on November 21, 2014