Get ‘Em Off, Mike

Using the gleaming currency from his very own pockets, Mike Nichols has bought the rights to Skinny Dip, a novel written by the frankly mental Carl Hiaasen. Nichols plans to produce and direct the project himself but will look for a writer to adapt the novel, which debuted at number three on The New York Times bestseller list. Hiaasen is on familiar ground with his usual mix of comedy and mystery in a South Florida setting, but for the rest of us