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...Rooster Cogburn): "He wasn't as clever as Spence, but a brilliant actor nonetheless, bigger than life in his performance?and often when he didn't have to be." Peter O'Toole (The Lion in Winter): "He can do anything. A bit cuckoo, but sweet and terribly funny." Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen): "Bogart was like Fonda?proud and happy to be an actor...
Unlike other stars, who cut a certain profile and hold on to it for years through variations of the same film--Bogart, Gable, Redford, Eastwood--Nicholson strives to delve into the human consciousness in unethical ways, and makes you love him for it. Killer eyes. Killer grin. Lady killer. Killer. But somehow a hell of a hero. Whether he's Bad-ass Buddusky fiving a kid his last breath of freedom, J.J. Gittes investigating a roller-coaster mystery, Bobby Dupea trying to shed his meaningless skin, or George Hansen smoking his first joint, Nicholson has found that inner peace...
...esoterica, disdained in commercial Hollywood. Nicholson's off-beat personality and unemployment drew him to a group known as "fringe-Hollywood"--the equivalent of semi-pro in baseball--dedicated to the less and less prevalent credo, "Get an idea, Get a camera, Get it done today." Not since Bogart has there been a career checkered by such massive hits and misses. But unlike Bogart, Nicholson also wrote scripts, sometimes to create suitable roles for himself...
...compelling was she as a Catholic nun in The Bells of St. Mary's that for years after, Ingrid Bergman, 66, received letters from mothers whose daughters had chosen convent life after seeing the 1945 film. Opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1943 classic Casablanca, she captured a million men's hearts as the sublime image of bittersweet love. Goodness knows what effect the actress's portrayal of Golda Meir will have on young Israeli women-or old Israeli politicians for that matter. Coaxed out of retirement to play the late Israeli leader in the Operation Prime Time...
...tery story in its primitive violence and also wants it to be clear that he, individually, is a highly literate and sophisticated character." On actors: "Alan Ladd is hard, bitter and occasionally charming, but he is, after all, a small boy's idea of a tough guy . . . Bogart can be tough without...