Word: nicholson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fermata by Nicholson Baker (Random House). The author, whose specialty is upwardly pretentious soft porn, is puffed as a writer of something like satire, with something like a point of view. Baloney, as proved by this latest aid to heavy breathing: the smarmy tale of a fellow who learns how to stop the universe momentarily and uses the trick to undress women, then masturbate...
...Little Man Tate, as well as E.T., The Miracle Worker, The Wild Child, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, Forrest Gump and Green Mansions (the last with Audrey Hepburn memorably miscast as Rima the Bird Girl). Nell is a fable of emergence and transcendence. Written by William Nicholson and Mark Handley, from Handley's play Idioglossia, it illustrates the familiar movie moral that wounded creatures are powerful ones, with powerful lessons to teach those who would presume to educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted, who has directed vigorous woodland women before (Sissy...
...Kristen Clarke, we are surprised that the house at 14 Plympton Street is still standing. --Zaheer R. Ali '94, BSA president, 1992-93, Art A. Hall '93, BSA president, 1991-92, Tayyab I. Walker '94, BSA historian, 1992-94, Elizabeth A. Kirby '94, BSA secretary, 1992-93, Ouzama N. Nicholson '94, Harvard Foundation Student Advisory Committee co-chair, 1992-93, Lisa D. Ellis '94-'95, African-American Cultural Council co-chair, 1992-93, Alison E. McKenzie '94, AACC co-chair, 1992-93, Aida Bekele '94, HFSAC co-chair...
...role that launched him into stardom, Jack Nicholson brilliantly plays Jake Gittes, a private detective who specializes in spying on adulterous spouses. The film opens rather abruptly with a series of graphic photographs capturing a couple in several compromising positions, while a male voice--the betrayed husband--moans pitifully in the background. Although a rather abrasive fellow, Jack Gittes does his job expertly...
...wrong: he was responsible for Love Story and The Godfather, among other hits, and later made Chinatown under his own production deal with the studio. During the '70s, Evans was married to Ali MacGraw, his third wife, and that's the decade he became friends with Jack Nicholson and hung out with Henry Kissinger. But the '80s weren't nearly as much fun. Evans was busted for possession of cocaine, and a vicious murder was tied to the production of his ambitious box-office flop The Cotton Club. After contemplating suicide and escaping from a mental hospital, and while producing...