Download or read book The Essential Jack Nicholson written by James L. Neibaur and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years Jack Nicholson toiled in low-budget films and guest spots in such television shows as Dr. Kildare and The Andy Griffith Show before his breakout performance in Easy Rider. Despite “retiring” in 2010, Nicholson remains one of the most revered actors of the last half century. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards—the most of any male actor—Nicholson has received three Oscars and countless other honors. The Essential Jack Nicholson looks at the key films in the career of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. After a brief profile of the actor, James L. Neibaur highlights each of Nicholson’s most important works, explaining why his performances are essential viewing. In addition to Easy Rider, the films discussed include Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Shining, Reds, Terms of Endearment, Prizzi’s Honor, Ironweed, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt, and The Departed. Neibaur also provides details about each film’s production, critical reaction, commercial reception, major nominations, and awards. A filmography of all of Nicholson’s movie roles (and select television performances) is also included. The Essential Jack Nicholson is a valuable source of information for fans of this iconic star and his films.
Download or read book If the Other Guy Isn t Jack Nicholson I ve Got the Part written by Ron Base and published by Chicago : Contemporary Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base examines the complex chemistry of movie stardom--a potent mix of greed and cunning, ego and casting, dedication and just plain dumb luck.
Download or read book Jack s Life A Biography of Jack Nicholson Updated and Expanded written by Patrick McGilligan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jack’s Life feels true. . . . Fascinating.”—Entertainment Weekly Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America’s outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its publication twenty years ago. Jack’s Life captures the essence of this most private and public of stars with a vivid depiction of Nicholson’s tangled Dickensian upbringing, his hungry years as actor and writer, his nearaccidental breakthrough in Easy Rider, and his prolificacy and artistry ever since, with roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, and The Departed, to name a beloved handful of his sixty-plus films. McGilligan captures the life and legacy of this unabashed and complex personality
Download or read book The Delaplaine Jack Nicholson His Essential Quotations written by Andrew Delaplaine and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are NICHOLSON's most essential quotations culled from as wide a variety of source materials available. They have been compiled, edited and carefully selected for inclusion in this book by that well-known Quote Monger, Andrew Delaplaine. The original illustrations are by his sister, Renee. Learn about the man's wit and wisdom from his very own words.
Download or read book Hollywood Hellraisers written by Robert Sellers and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I don’t know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I’m going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.”—Marlon Brando “I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It’s an absolute miracle that I’m still around.”—Dennis Hopper “You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police.”—Jack Nicholson “The best time to get married is noon. That way, if things don’t work out, you haven’t blown the whole day.”—Warren Beatty They’re the baddest bad-asses Hollywood as ever seen: Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson. They are men to whom rules did not apply; normal standards of behavior were simply too wearisome to worry about. These are men who brawled, boozed, snorted, and screwed their way into legendhood—but along the way they changed acting and the way movies were made forever. Hollywood Hellraisers is a whistle-stop tour of jaw-dropping sexual activity, misbehavior of an Olympic standard, all-out excess, and genuine madness. It’s a wonder Hollywood survived.
Download or read book Cooking for Jack written by Tommy Baratta and published by Beyond Words/Atria Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack Nicholson needed to lose the twenty-five pounds he'd gained to portray the lead character in the film Hoffa in order to star in Wolf, he called on his longtime pal, chef Tommy Baratta. The "Jack Nicholson Diet", now on the menu of Baratta's popular Greenwich Village restaurant, Marylou's, is the basis for the simple, low-fat, yet soul-satisfying recipes in Cooking for Jack. To help Jack slim down, Tommy drew on the philosophy that fine Italian food means fresh ingredients, simply prepared, and he created a powerhouse repertoire of quick, full-flavored dishes that are low in fat and calories. Eating Tommy's way, Jack dropped those extra pounds - and so did Tommy! Cooking for Jack includes more that one hundred of the recipes that keep Jack lean and energized, from breakfasts such as Basic Frittata and No Problem French Toast to his favorite dessert, a luscious but light Rice Pudding with rum-soaked raisins.
Download or read book Jack Nicholson written by Philippe Durant and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jack Nicholson Scenes Behind the Smile written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2024-06-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step behind the curtain with Jack Nicholson: Scenes Behind the Smile, a definitive exploration of one of Hollywood's most enigmatic figures, brought to life by the ChatStick Team. This compelling biography delves deep into Nicholson's world, offering readers a unique glimpse into the life of a legendary actor whose performances have left an indelible mark on cinema. Discover the stories behind Nicholson's most iconic roles, from the unsettling charm of Jack Torrance to the devilish wit of the Joker. Learn about his formative years, his meteoric rise to fame, and the off-screen charisma that made him a fixture in Hollywood lore. 🎥🌟 Highlights of the Book: Comprehensive insights into Nicholson's early life and the challenges that shaped his career. Detailed analyses of Nicholson's key performances and their cultural impact. An intimate look at his personal life, passions, and philanthropy. Reflections on his legacy and the enduring influence on future generations of actors. Whether you're a longtime admirer or a newcomer to his work, Jack Nicholson: Scenes Behind the Smile promises a thorough, engaging, and revealing portrayal of the man whose life is as captivating as his films. 📚🎭 Download your copy today and experience the depth behind the legendary smile of Jack Nicholson!
Download or read book The Jack Nicholson Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Jack Nicholson written by Amelia Carroll and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is your ultimate Jack Nicholson resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jack Nicholson's whole picture right away. Get countless Jack Nicholson facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource. The Jack Nicholson Handbook is the single and largest Jack Nicholson reference book. This compendium of information is the authoritative source for all your entertainment, reference, and learning needs. It will be your go-to source for any Jack Nicholson questions. A mind-tickling encyclopedia on Jack Nicholson, a treat in its entirety and an oasis of learning about what you don't yet know...but are glad you found. The Jack Nicholson Handbook will answer all of your needs, and much more.
Download or read book Jack Nicholson written by Marc Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fall of Buster Keaton written by James L. Neibaur and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator and his 1925 work, The General, placed at number 18 in the American Film Institute's poll of the 100 greatest features, the highest ranked silent film on the survey. But with the advent of sound in the late 1920s, silent stars like Keaton began to fall out of favor and the great comedian's career began to decline. In The Fall of Buster Keaton, James Neibaur assesses Keaton's work during the talking picture era, especially those made at MGM, Educational, and Columbia studios. While giving some attention to the early part of Keaton's career, Neibaur focuses on Keaton's contract work with the three studios, as well as his subsequent work as a gagman, supporting player, and television pitchman. The book also recounts the resurgence of interest in Keaton's silent work, which resulted in a lifetime achievement Oscar and worldwide recognition before his death in 1966. This fascinating account of an artist's struggle and triumph during the more challenging period of his career will be of interest to anyone wanting to learn about one of film's most influential performers.
Download or read book Jack s Life A Biography of Jack Nicholson written by Patrick McGilligan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-02-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Volatile Jack Nicholson has found the perfect biographer in Patrick McGilligan, who gives us a rich, absorbing portrait of one of the greatest movie stars ever." —Patricia Bosworth No male American film star of the post-Brando era has demonstrated the talent, the charisma, the larger-than-life audacity, and the string of screen triumphs of Jack Nicholson. In Jack's Life, Patrick McGilligan, one of our finest film historians, has produced the definitive biography of this most private and public of stars, from his tangled Dickensian upbringing in New Jersey, his formative years as an actor and screenwriter, his near-accidental breakthrough to stardom in Easy Rider, and his string of great roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Last Detail, The Shining, and other films that mark him as a searching, complex artist. Here as well is the often Rabelaisian life behind the smiling mask, the legendary romances and appetites for sex and drugs, the obsessions with money and control, and the perpetual restlessness.
Download or read book Jack Nicholson written by Lucia Marzo and published by Gremese Editore. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jack Nicholson written by Patrick McGilligan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aucune vedette de films américains n'a démontré autant de talent et de charisme que Jack Nicholson. Patient masochiste dans La Petite Boutique des horreurs (1960), le comédien fait ses débuts dans l'écurie de films à petits budgets de Roger Corman. Il s'impose comme la star du nouvel Hollywood des années 1970 dans Easy Rider (1969), et remporte un Oscar quelques années plus tard grâce au film de Milos Forman, Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (1976). Il est aujourd'hui une des icônes les plus populaires du cinéma américain, aux performances inoubliables chez Kubrick (Shining), Polanski (Chinatown), Sean Penn (Crossing Guam ou Scorsese (Les Infiltrés). Patrick McGilligan capture avec justesse la vie privée, publique et cinématographique de Jack Nicholson dans toute sa complexité et ses contradictions. Il livre un portrait sensible de l'homme, de l'artiste, d'un hédoniste élevé dans un cocon de timidité... Après des recherches minutieuses et plus de 200 entretiens, il raconte cinquante ans d'une carrière exceptionnelle, un caractère pour le moins difficile et aussi une vie privée chaotique parsemée de fêtes légendaires. Il révèle le grand " secret de famille " de Jack Nicholson, qui fut élevé par sa grand-mère en croyant qu'elle était sa mère. De fait, il n'apprit que très tard la véritable identité de celle qui se faisait passer... pour sa soeur ! Une situation perturbante qui peut expliquer ses liaisons multiples et parfois simultanées, ses divers excès et ses réticences face à la paternité. Son succès croissant, les choix de ses rôles et sa recherche permanente de légitimité font de lui une des étoiles les plus intrigantes d'Hollywood.
Download or read book Easy Rider written by Steven Bingen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969 a man walked upon the moon, the Woodstock music festival was held in upstate New York, Richard Nixon was sworn in as the president of the United States, the Beatles made their last public appearance, as did, after a fashion, Judy Garland, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Boris Karloff, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Jack Kerouac, all of whom passed away that year. Something else passed away that year as well. In early July, just days before the moon landing, a low-budget exploitation movie, EasyRider, was released. It’s astonishing and wholly unexpected success almost single-handedly destroyed the Hollywood studio system which had been controlling the entertainment industry for half a century. Its success would ultimately change the way movies would be made, and who made them, as well as how those movies looked and sounded, and which audiences those movies would be made for. Additionally, the film’s innovative techniques; including extensive location shooting, unexplained editing juxtapositions, improvised dialogue, and innovative use of popular music, would change the vocabulary and language of cinema forever. Easy Rider: 50 Years of Looking for America will tell the story of Easy Rider on the fiftieth anniversary of its explosive release. Through published interviews, previously undiscovered archival materials, and new reflections by the participants, the whole story of Hollywood’s first true counterculture movie will be revealed for the first time ever.
Download or read book Easy Riders Raging Bulls written by Peter Biskind and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us on the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an era that produced such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars, how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an "anything goes" experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off. After the success of Easy Rider, young film-school graduates suddenly found themselves in demand, and directors such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese became powerful figures. Even the new generation of film stars -- Nicholson, De Niro, Hoffman, Pacino, and Dunaway -- seemed a breed apart from the traditional Hollywood actors. Ironically, the renaissance would come to an end with Jaws and Star Wars, hugely successful films that would create a blockbuster mentality and crush innovation. Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this is the full, candid story of Hollywood's last golden age. Never before have so many celebrities talked so frankly about one another and about the drugs, sex, and money that made so many of them crash and burn. By turns hilarious and shocking, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of Hollywood at work and play.
