Famed theater and movie director Mike Nichols died Wednesday night. He managed to make a motion picture version of "Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" that was shorn of some of the play's spicier epithets but remained true to Albee's intent. If "The Sixties" didn't start with "The Graduate", that film certainly captured the ethos of that "decade". My favorite Nichols' moment, however, was a routine he did with Elaine May, a satire on the funeral industry where Nichols played "the Bereaved" and May his "Grief Lady." Just about the funniest thing I have ever seen.