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This little object lesson in stomped hopes and lapsed memories must have appealed to Nicholson's sense of irony, and worked as well on his aggressive sense of pride. He enrolled in a beginner's acting course run by Actor Jeff Corey. Other pupils included James Coburn, Sally Kellerman, Producer Roger Corman, Writers Carol Eastman and Robert Towne. Nicholson and Towne (who was later to write the screenplays of The Last Detail and Chinatown) hit it off immediately and shared a small apartment on the hungry fringes of Hollywood. Both of them had crushes on every actress...
Sandra Knight surrendered her career to marriage, but Nicholson persisted in his. When a doubtful Corey admonished him to "show me some poetry," Jack's reply snapped back in a second: "Maybe, Jeff, you just don't see the poetry I'm showing...
...Great Old Time Jazz Festival is tonight on Long Field in Framingham, and features the Jeff Staughton High Society New Orleans Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. Stuaghton's band sounds like a local imitation of real New Orleans bands like the Olympia, which are made up of old black men and women who grew up as Jazz did, in the teens and twenities, and are carrying the tradition. It's good to see people like Staughton, if they're faithful to the music and play well, carrying on the best music in the world...
...ANGELS by JEFF FIELDS 383 pages. Atheneum...
Huck himself (Jeff East) has been changed into a sort of homespun civil rights worker who comes easily to his vision of the brotherhood of man. "Why, Jim!" he exclaims, looking at the slave's wounded neck. "Your blood's red same as mine!" Twain's Huck, it will be recalled, was a good deal troubled by matters of conscience, and it took him most of the book to wrestle down the acquired prejudices of Southern boyhood. Hardly a doubt stirs this Huck, of course. He is a real nice boy from the very start -maybe just...