Acclaimed director Mike Nichols died suddenly Wednesday night. He was 83.
Nichols, who was married to Diane Sawyer from 1988 until his death, was described as a "true visionary" by ABC News president James Goldston when the network announced Thursday morning that he had passed.
During his lengthy career, Nichols boasted an impressive body of work, including movies like The Graduate, Working Girl, The Birdcage and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He is one of the few people to have won an Emmy, a Gramy, an Oscar and a Tony (EGOT).
He won an Academy Award for The Graduate in 1968, and between 1964 and 2012, he picked up six Tony awards for his directorial work—more than anyone. Some of his most notable stage works included The Odd Couple and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He won nine Tony Awards in total, including two for producing as well as directing a musical, Monty Python's Spamalot, in 2005.
He won a Grammy for his 1961 comedy album, An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May. He won multiple Emmy Awards for directing TV movies, including Closer in 2004 and Charlie Wilson's War in 2007.
Nichols had recently been immersed in a new project for HBO to adapt Master Class, Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play about opera legend Maria Callas. This reunited him with Meryl Streep, who he worked with on multiple projects, including the 2004 HBO miniseries Angels in America.
Source: E! News
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Gloomy riffs, catchy grooves and choruses that call to mind the flair of "The Walking Dead" - welcome to ZOMBIELAND! Megaherz is one of the finest examples of Neue Deutsche Harte, a genre of industrial metal, which takes elements of groove metal, techno and German rock. Megaherz makes use of clean and deep male vocals, heavy riffs, samples, keyboard and synthesizer effects. The band's 8th studio album, Zombieland, promises to be a to be a milestone in the band's history, and captivates with rich grooves, bombastic riffs and catchy choruses.
Megaherz is back - stronger than ever - and prove with Zombieland that they are still among the most exciting German rock bands in recent years.
More than a band, Gang of Four is an idea for a band. Created amid the political and intellectual foment of Leeds in 1977, Gang of Four was an argument, a manifesto, a dare: What would happen if you dismantled assumptions and worked from first principles? What might a rock band sound like if it took nothing for granted?
What Happens Next, the title of Gang of Four’s thrilling and unsettling ninth album, refers both to the world outside and the band itself: an emphatic commitment to the future.
On the album, as on the band’s rejuvenating 2013 tour dates, founding guitarist and songwriter Andy Gill has constructed a new Gang of Four: John “Gaoler” Sterry on vocals, Thomas McNiece on bass and Jonny Finnegan on drums. What Happens Next is a work that is aware of Gang of Four’s past but not beholden to it, and finds a band that is empowered to explore new tones and narratives.
Gaoler is a shape-shifting, charismatic singer able to slide under the skin of Gill’s narrators, sometimes cruel, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes a neutral observer of how society operates. He is joined on What Happens Next by Alison Mosshart (of the Kills and the Dead Weather), Robbie Furze (of the Big Pink), Gail Ann Dorsey, Japanese guitarist Tomayasu Hotei and German musician and actor Herbert Grönemeyer. What Happens Next contains the intellectual muscle you would expect but this plenitude of voices also makes it Gang of Four’s most richly emotional album yet.
International in scope as well as personnel, What Happens Next grapples with ideas of identity, religion and capitalism, and how individuals are led astray by ideology and received wisdom. It does so with music that is heavy, dynamic and often moving in ways that Gang of Four haven’t explored before. The consistent thread is Gill’s unmistakeable guitar-playing, as restless and probing as his lyrics.
With a tough, radical new sound, Andy Gill has constructed a new entity for exploring enduring fascinations, which makes What Happens Next Gang of Four’s boldest, most self-interrogating album since Entertainment! As ever, Gang of Four takes nothing for granted.
Since its debut in 1993 under the leadership of JeroMad, Drama Of The Spheres is constantly changing. Batcave, Industrial Rock, Deathrock, Dark Wave, experimental... DOTS is not limited to any style.
2 years after "A Kafka Tale" concept album about "In The Penal Colony" of Franz Kafka, Drama Of The Spheres gets tough and returns this time with a "Puzzled View" into "Back to the Roots'" mode:
8 pieces, 8 "songs" (according to JeroMad) with straightforward structures, rabid guitar riffs always these incisive, winding and tortuous melodies that Drama has the secret...
If Trent Reznor remixed covers of Virgin Prunes by Killing Joke beginnings...
