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The Business

In 'Becoming Mike Nichols' a Legend Speaks, One Last Time

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Douglas McGrath set out to make a documentary about Mike Nichols, he found the iconic director most excited to talk about his early work, up to and including perhaps his most defining movie, The Graduate.

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0:00.0

On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.

0:05.6

Neither party's agenda really aligns with who its coalition is today.

0:09.9

It was the dumbest speech I have ever seen in my life of covering politics.

0:14.9

When people walk into a voting booth, at the end of the day, they do say,

0:19.1

I really should vote for someone smarter than me.

0:21.7

I'm Warren Alney. To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign. Find the To the Point

0:26.4

podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:36.7

And he said, I'll tell you something. I think most directors do their best work early.

0:40.8

He said, I think I did my best work early.

0:42.9

He said, I think the graduate was my best film.

0:46.1

Director Douglas McGrath's new HBO documentary, Becoming Mike Nichols,

0:50.6

charts the rise of the legendary director of hits on stage and screen. The film covers two

0:56.1

interviews with the then-82-year-old Nichols, one of only 12 people in the world to win Tony,

1:02.1

Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar, the last for his second film, The Graduate. But first on the news banter,

1:08.9

a major shake-up at ABC, and Deadpool shakes up the superhero universe.

1:14.3

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

1:21.6

I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter. Hello, Matt.

1:26.9

Hi there.

1:29.0

So let's start with television, a shake-up at a broadcast network. It's almost like, you know, the inevitable thing that is going to

1:34.6

happen at every single broadcast network, especially now. Things are so difficult in the broadcast

1:39.6

business. You know, having said that there's still billions of dollars in advertising being sold,

1:44.6

broadcast is still the big tent. But at ABC, this past week, ABC Entertainment Group President

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