Articles
Michelle Obama’s Oscar Moment: How the First Lady Became an Academy Presenter
The Best Picture announcement came via live satellite hook-up
The Shining Prequel?: Horror Classic May Get Backstory
Is the “Here’s Johnny!” line that Jack Torrance (famously portrayed by Jack Nicholson) utters after axing through a door in The Shining a one-off event—or the...
Eat It or Else! The New Culture of Culinary Coercion
Now that I am old, I probably can’t take it for granted that everyone remembers the iconic scene in Five Easy Pieces, when Jack Nicholson wants to order a plain...
Brazilian Scammer Nabbed After Using Fake Jack Nicholson ID
Successful identity theft requires a certain bit of stealth. That usually includes avoiding the use of famous names and actors – like, say, Jack Nicholson.
How Do You Know: Well, I Like It
Hard to think it's been 40 years since Mary Richards got a job in the WJM newsroom after the most uncomfortable job interview ever. When the hard-driving boss...
Short List
1 | DVD The New Hollywood Box Set For a minute or two in the late '60s, savvy lunatics like Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper and Bob Rafelson got the keys to the...
Death Myths: The Bucket List and The Savages
Jack Nicholson's description of terminal illness: "You go home to some ceremonial procession into death, with everyone standing around watching you die while you...
Movies: The Gang's All Here
The Departed -- A remake of the 2002 Hong Kong-- cinema dirty-cop classic Infernal Affairs--marks the third collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo...
Faithful Departed
An undercover cop worms his way into the trust of a powerful mobster. The mobster's young protege joins the police force and rises quickly through the ranks...
People: Aug. 19, 1985
"It wasn't my intention for him to do it as a film," recalls Nora Ephron, 44. "I just wanted him to read it." But Director Mike Nichols, 53, thought Heartburn,...
Jack of Hearts
Here's the thing about Jack Nicholson: some women really like him, and other women can't stand him. Fortunately he can tell the difference: "I know when I got...
Sean Penn: Necessary Actor
It was one of the more ferocious scenes in The Pledge, and when Sean Penn, who was directing it, called "Cut!," he expected Jack Nicholson to be drained to the...
People: Jul. 21, 2003
FRERE JACK When JACK NICHOLSON addressed striking French actors who interrupted his film shoot in Paris last week, he might have been overcome by feelings of...
Movies: As Good As He Gets
Warren Schmidt moves ponderously. This is not because Jack Nicholson, who plays him to perfection, is particularly weighty or out of shape for a 66-year-old man...
Managing to Tolerate Adam
You feel it percolating in your gut as the guy behind the deli counter serves someone who has waited less time than you. It rises to form a knot of bile as you...
Cinema: What Lurks Beneath
The film begins as it ends, with Jack Nicholson's Jerry Black wandering a desiccated landscape, mumbling crazily to himself. At first, of course, we do not know...
Television: Bette Midler Plays the Role of Her Life--Literally
When you're a big star, you don't pass gas for just anybody. But then the star of CBS's most hyped new sitcom is hardly just anybody. So when the writers of...
CINEMA: MAD ABOUT HER
Tough men go dippy in her presence. They look beyond the blondness and see a questing intelligence, a wit that can sting or caress and, in the corners of her...
