“Let’s get out of here. I don’t want to see anybody.” Those were the words of polymath thinker, actor, entertainer and director Mike Nichols (1931-2014) at the June 21, 1966 premiere of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nichols was convinced he’d misfired with the film version of Edward Albee’s highly regarded play about marriage, and raced out of Los Angeles’s Pantages Theatre so as to avoid an audience heaving with Hollywood royalty. Oh well, what did Nichols know? Which is the point, or should be the point when contemplating Andrew Ferguson, President Trump’s newly installed FTC Chair.
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