Ash Carter and Sam Kashner: “Life Isn’t Everything”

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Evasive, brilliant, demanding and charming – just being all of those things would consume most of us. But Mike Nichols was an acclaimed performer, writer and finally, director of stage, screen and television, a career spanning from "The Graduate" to "Angels in America". Yet he hid in plain sight, which led writers Ash Carter and Sam Kashner to gather over one hundred of Nichols' friends and colleagues for the Mike Nichols oral history “Life Isn’t Everything” – a compelling and revealing book.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:05.0	Welcome to the treatment.
0:15.0	Life isn't everything.
0:18.0	Who knew if that's true or not, but is the title of the terrific new book about Mike Nichols,
0:22.7	as we remember by 150 of his closest friends, its authors, Ash Carter and Sam Cashner here.
0:27.4	First of all, thanks for doing this so much.
0:29.7	Thank you guys for doing this.
0:30.6	Thanks for having us.
0:31.4	Appreciate it.
0:32.1	I should say, Ash, I met you.
0:33.2	When I met you, you were telling me you were going to do this book. And just the people that you wanted to get for it,
0:40.5	that materialized in this way must be really thrilling to you.
0:44.3	Yeah, I mean, it was.
0:47.3	I think that we can't give ourselves too much credit.
0:51.4	I think that it's really the we're kind of just riding on the
0:54.7	coattails of our subject. And I just want to say also that the numeral, the figure on the cover,
1:02.3	we honestly could have gone past it, but our publisher was threatening to cancel our contract.
1:07.2	Really?
1:07.9	You know, we were adding people right up until they sent it to the printer, you know.
1:12.5	Well, that's an interesting question.
1:13.9	How do you guys decide who to make the cut?
1:16.4	Because there's so many great people in here.
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