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Robert Redford badly wanted the lead role in 1967's, 'The Graduate,' but was rejected by Director Mike Nicholls because he didn't think Redford could play a loser. 'Let's put it this way," Nichols reportedly said, "Have you ever struck out with a girl?" "What do you mean?" asked Redford.
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Natalie Portman wanted to go fully nude for 'Closer' but director Mike Nichols refused.
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Natalie Portman went completely nude for filming scenes in her 2004 film, Closer, but director Mike Nichols decided not to use the footage in the final film.
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Mrs. Robinson" was written as "Mrs. Roosevelt" about Eleanor Roosevelt, and rewritten on the fly after Mike Nichols rejected 2 other songs for "The Graduate."
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Simon & Garfunkel's split-up started when Simon was cut from 'Catch-22' and director Mike Nichols kept Garfunkel in the cast
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Only 12 people have won an EGOT (Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Tony). They are: Richard Rogers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Golberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez.
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That, of the 15 artists achieving EGOT, only 5 have achieved BEGOT (BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony): John Gielgud, Whoopie Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn and Mike Nichols.
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Mike Nichols' movie Lord of War was at best a muricanist mockumentary about the real Viktor Bout, who's russian and not murican, which arms deals amounted to about 5 % of his successful various business, and who's still rotting in an american jail.
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Mike Nichols' Wolf is the highest-grossing non-Twilight werewolf movie.
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The Graduate director Mike Nichols was a fourth cousin of Albert Einstein. And Elaine May teased him for it at AFI tribute.
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Mike Smith (possible the luckiest man alive) was once engaged to Nichole Hiltz.
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Director Mike Nichols was left permanently hairless after a botched whooping cough vaccination at age four. He wore a wig, fake eyebrows and eyelashes almost his entire life. There was not a hair on his body.
