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Mark Harris

Book Review: “Mike Nichols: A Life” — Portrait of a Protean Artist

This nearly 600-page text is a closely detailed, comprehensive portrait by a biographer riveted, as many of us are, by his charismatic subject.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Helen Epstein, Mark Harris, Mike Nichols: A Life

Book Review: Before, During, and After — A Look Back at Patriotic and Paranoid American Cinema

Informative new books look at a pair of tumultuous periods in American history — the Second World War and the Cold War — when Hollywood rode a particularly rocky political roller coaster.

By: Rob Ribera Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Blacklist, film criticism, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, Hollywood Reds, Jeff Smith, Mark Harris, Rob Ribera, The Cold War

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