Word: anjelica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks later Polanski picked the girl up in his leased Mercedes for a second shooting session, one which ended up at the Mulholland Drive home of Polanski's good friend Actor Jack Nicholson. Although Nicholson was away skiing in Colorado at the time, his live-in girl friend, Anjelica Huston, daughter of Director John Huston, was there, along with the housekeeper of Neighbor Marlon Brando...
Ever careful of possessions, he once called Anjelica in London from Rome to ask: "I can't find my comb. Did you pack it?" She found it and, much relieved, he responded long-distance, "O.K., take care of it for me." He is sometimes subject to gusty emotions. Friends say he has cried when seeing them off at airports. He calls back home to Rain every Christmas to get the traditional family recipes...
...belly dancer and recovering from two bad marriages when Nicholson took her home with him one night, said, "Pick yourself a bedroom," and welcomed her simply as a friend. Now she lives next door, and has run Jack's household through the romances with Mimi, Michelle and Anjelica. "Jack once said to me, 'Helena, look, I have very aristocratic feet.' So I say of him he has the feet of an aristocrat and the body of a peasant. He has traveled with kings and knaves, and sees no difference between them...
...With Anjelica, who is serene and apparently not a skunk, Nicholson seems content. Their life, however, is hardly quiet. There are three phone lines in the house, and they are usually ringing. If Nicholson is not around to take the call, he is firm about returning each one personally. The front door is left open, and friends wander in. Nicholson will often come back from work with a few pals in tow, a group that might include Mike Nichols (whom Nicholson calls "Big Nick"), Candice Bergen ("Bug"), Art Garfunkel ("Art the Garf) or Warren Beatty ("Master B"). The house itself...
Though he likes to have people around, Nicholson can still be remote. Anjelica admits that "Jack doesn't tip his hand very much." Instead of trying to explain him, she suggests mistily, one must "sense his essences." Indeed, anyone looking for something any more substantial than that from Nicholson may have applied to the wrong department...