Word: cuckoo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nice place just to visit," concluded Actor Jack Nicholson after two months on location at the state mental hospital in Salem, Ore. Nicholson has just completed filming One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a movie based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel and co-produced by The Streets of San Francisco Star Michael Douglas. The film stars Nicholson as an asylum inmate ("crazy as a fox") and features former Oregon Governor Tom McCall, Jazz Singer Seatman Crothers and some of the hospital's 600 inmates in its cast. Nicholson, who anticipated that his assignment would...
...Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed--they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce...? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly...
...widely read after so many years. I can think of only two others that date from the same period that are still read by people with enjoyment, rather than any courses they might have to read them for. The other two are Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. I cannot think of any others. Pynchon readers, I think, come mostly from courses studying contemporary literature...
...Kubrick about playing Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At no time since the burnished '30s has Hollywood been so big-name conscious. "The system is geared toward overworking the stars," Nicholson points out. "There aren't that many stars around to haul the freight...
...least he wasn't alone. He knew that. Others had realized it long ago; Kesey in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Pynchon in "V," Heller in "Catch-22." He had friends, people who took his side. He felt a common bond, even with the people he had never met. They, too, understood...