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JACK NICHOLSON ~ Mischievous and Magnificent
JACK NICHOLSON ~ Mischievous and Magnificent
JACK NICHOLSON ~ Mischievous and Magnificent
JACK NICHOLSON ~ Mischievous and Magnificent
JACK NICHOLSON ~ Mischievous and Magnificent
Jack Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is decision they made in my individual acknowledged the importance of being cast in was stopped at a red light in North
an American actor and filmmaker who case”. Easy Rider: “All I could see in the early films, Hollywood. After accusing the other
acting career spans for over sixty years. He has won three Academy Awards, before Easy Rider, was this desperate young man of cutting him off in traffic,
He is known for playing a wide range of and with twelve nominations, he is the actor trying to vault out of the screen and Nicholson used a golf club to bash the
starring or supporting roles, including most nominated male actor in the create a movie career.” roof and windshield of Blank’s car. A
satirical comedy, romance, and darkly Academy’s history. Among his most Only Nicholson (1960s–2000s), Michael Caine witness confirmed Blank’s account of
comic portrayals of anti-heroes and notable films are Easy Rider (1969), Five (1960s–2000s), Meryl Streep (1970s–2010s), Paul the incident, and misdemeanor charges
villainous characters. In many of his films, Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail Newman (1950s–1960s, 1980s–2000s), Katharine of assault and vandalism were filed
he has played the “eternal outsider, the (1973), Chinatown (1974), The Passenger Hepburn (1930s–1960s, 1980s), and Laurence against Nicholson. Charges were
sardonic drifter”, someone who rebels (1975), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Olivier (1930s–1970s) have been nominated for dropped after Nicholson apologized to
against the social structure. In his personal Nest (1975), The Shining (1980), Terms an acting (lead or supporting) Academy Award Blank, and the two reached an
life, he exudes a wolf like charm, a wicked of Endearment (1983), Prizzi’s Honor in five different decades. undisclosed settlement, which
sense of humor; and his animated features (1985), Batman (1989), A Few Good Men With three Oscar wins, he also ties with included a reported $500,000 check
capture the essence of a mischievous child (1992), As Good as It Gets (1997), About Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid from Nicholson.
on the verge of orneriness. Schmidt (2002), and The Departed Bergman, and Meryl Streep for the second-most Celebrity friendships
Before we launch into this man’s (2006). Oscar wins in acting categories. Only Katharine Nicholson lived next door to Marlon
amazing career, we will take a side trip to How it began: A spot opened up in Hepburn, with four Oscars, won more. Brando for a number of years on
his birth. In 1974, Time magazine Fonda and Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969), One of Nicholson’s greatest successes came in Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills.
researchers learned, and informed it led to his first big acting break. 1975, with his role as Randle P. McMurphy in Warren Beatty also lived nearby,
Nicholson, that his “sister”, June, was Nicholson played alcoholic lawyer One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The movie earning the road the nickname “Bad
actually his mother, and his other “sister”, George Hanson, for which he received was an adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel, and Boy Drive”. After Brando’s death in
Lorraine, was really his aunt. By this time, his first Oscar nomination. The film cost was directed by Miloš Forman and co-produced 2004, Nicholson purchased his
both the mother (he was raised by) and only $400,000 to make, and became a by Michael Douglas. Nicholson plays an anti- bungalow for $6.1 million, with the
grandmother had died (in 1963 and 1970, blockbuster, grossing $40 million. authoritarian patient at a mental hospital purpose of having it demolished.
respectively). On finding out, Nicholson Biographer John Parker states that where he becomes an inspiring leader for the Nicholson stated that it was done out
said it was “a pretty dramatic event, but it Nicholson’s interpretation of his role other patients. of respect to Brando’s legacy, as it had
wasn’t what I’d call traumatizing ... I was placed him in the company of earlier Nicholson is in the California Hall of Fame, become too expensive to renovate the
pretty well psychologically formed”. “anti-hero” actors, such as James the New Jersey Hall of Fame, and received an “derelict” building which was plagued
Yet, the revelation definitely impacted Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, while honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from by mold.
his view of the world as it pertains to promoting him into an “overnight Brown University at its 243rd commencement. Nicholson was also a close friend of
abortion. He confesses to be pro-choice, number-one hero of the counter-culture At the ceremony, Ruth Simmons, Brown Robert Evans, the producer of
however, against abortion ~ since he is movement”. University’s president, called him, “the most Chinatown, and after Evans lost
aware that he may not have been born ~ The part was a lucky break for skilled actor of our lifetime”. Woodland, his home, as the result of a
had a different decision about his birth Nicholson—the role had been written Nicholson is the Hollywood celebrity who is 1980s drug bust, Nicholson and other
mother’s pregnancy been made. He has for the actor Rip Torn, who withdrew almost like a character in some ongoing novel friends of the producer purchased
also said that he has “nothing but total from the project after an argument with of our times. He has huge wealth, and lives life Woodland to give it back to Evans.
admiration, gratitude, and respect for the Hopper. In interviews, Nicholson later with reckless abandon even as he is aging. He Hobbies
strength of the women who made the is father to 5 children with 4 different mothers; Nicholson is a fan of the New York
Elder Abuse was married in 1962 to the mother of his first Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers. He
HOTLINE child, divorced in 1968 and has been single has been a Laker season ticket holder
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