Actor/director/writer/producer Mike White, whose many credits include writing School of Rock, has come back from a bit of a rocky time (specifically, a stay in a psychiatric hospital) with a project that’s generating a lot of buzz. Enlightened is a new series created by White for HBO. Starring Laura Dern, it’s about “an executive on the verge of a nervous breakthrough,” according to the show’s pithy tagline. Yesterday’s edition of The New York Times Magazine profiled White, and Art Streiber shot the portrait that accompanied the piece.
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Mike White. Photo by Art Streiber for The New York Times Magazine. Prop stylist: Jamie Dean Studio. Insects by Graham Owen.
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Click here to read “Stuff Mike White Likes,” by Carina Chocano, in the October 9 New York Times Magazine.
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