Word: nicholson
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...University of Wisconsin brought former Green Bay head coach Mark Osiecki on board to fill a recently vacated assistant’s position, Mazzoleni’s name quickly surfaced among the frontrunners to replace him, thanks in large part to his longstanding friendship with the Gamblers' president, Rob Nicholson...
...work has frequently been turned into films—often for television, but occasionally for the big screen as well. His novel The Witches of Eastwick, became a film starring Cher, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon...
...turgid batch of competing films, Cannes's chief programmer Thierry Fr?maux promised that this year's selection would be less stodgy, more Hollywoody, more fun. That meant two things. First, the jury president had to be from Hollywood. (One insider said Tarantino got the call only after Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep had respectfully declined.) Second, for films that offered serious fun, Fr?maux had to look to the East...
...purveyor of kitsch and leave her out of their histories of 20th century art. Others see her as an icon whose work captured the spirit of the Art Deco age. Not surprisingly, many of her fans today are from the glamour set: present-day collectors include Madonna and Jack Nicholson; two years ago one of her paintings (The Musician, 1929) sold for $2.6 million. To make up your own mind about her, drop in at London's Royal Academy of Arts, which is showing more than 50 of her paintings in the first major exhibition of her work in Britain...
...more ferocious scenes in The Pledge, and when Sean Penn, who was directing it, called "Cut!," he expected Jack Nicholson to be drained to the point of dropping. But Nicholson turned to an assistant, bummed a cigarette, flashed one of his wolfish, insouciant grins and said, "We all have our little secrets, Seany." It's a story Penn likes to tell because it illustrates a point: like all other terrific actors, neither he nor Nicholson can tell you how he does what he sublimely does...