cynthia: the other thing that i think was -- a million things were great about mike nichols but the waye could boil something down until its essence, i had done three readings of "the seagull," and someone was talking about the themes, and mike said this is a story about the children of rich people. the children of famous, rich successful artists, and how intimidated they are. he said that in the reading, there was meryl streep. immediately, they knew what he meant. it isn't about art, it is about something very basic. when you are a giant, how do your children deal with that and not feel small? charlie: we remember him well. good to see you. congratulations. cynthia: thank you. ♪ cory: live from pier three in san francisco, welcome to "bloomberg west." i'm cory johnson. the fed has dropped the word "patient" from its guidance, opening the door to a rate increase as early as june. the fed also indicated it will start to flow. here is fed chair janet yellen. janet yellen: we anticipate it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate when the committee has seen

cynthia: the other thing that i think was -- a million things were great about mike nichols but the waye could boil something down until its essence, i had done three readings of "the seagull," and someone was talking about the themes, and mike said this is a story about the children of rich people. the children of famous, rich successful artists, and how intimidated they are. he said that in the reading there was merrill street -- meryl streep. immediately, they knew what he meant. it isn't about art it is about something very basic. when you are a giant, how do your children deal with that and not feel small? charlie: we remember him well. good to see you. congratulations. cynthia: thank you. ♪ >> hill republicans sing the final cut. and congratulations. plans to call bebe sometimes have. netanyahu says he will form a

. >> rose: how often did you work with mike nichols?>> i worked with him twice in my career but our paths would cross and one time he was -- a really fun thing he had me do he directed the film primary colors, but he actually had me for whatever reason read with the young men who were auditioning. i des he wanted a girl to read with them so he thought of me. >> rose: but wasn't there something about you working in the theater and going back and forth and m3ke got involved in that. >> he cast me in both of those. he cast me in tom's play when i was 17. we took it to boston big hit, brought it into new york, on broadway, big hit. then pulled me out of that to be in hurley burly p we took it to chicago, big mitt off broadway big hit. moved it to broadway, big hit. the woman who had taken over for me in the first play the real thing, she had to leave. her replacement they weren't happy with. by happenstance mike also produced whoopi goldberg's show and no one heard of her and he brought her to their attention and he said come out with the h