Word: nicholson
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...reluctant to kiss his girl (Marisa Tomei), sass his boss or speak up for himself in tones above a whisper. Dave needs fate, or a series of preposterous plot machinations, to effect his deliverance. He is put into the care of a radical therapist, Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson...
Pause here for a brief head swivel. Jack Nicholson in an Adam Sandler comedy? That's right. Nicholson is here to bring a touch of Mephistophelian class to the standard Sandler paranoid-fantasy recipe. Dr. Buddy moves into Dave's apartment and bed, dates his girlfriend and--all right, this is inspired--forces Dave to sing I Feel Pretty while parked on a city bridge at rush hour...
...Polanski, once described by Kenneth Tynan as "the five foot Pole you wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole," was charged with drugging and sodomizing 13-year-old Samantha Gailery 26 years ago this month in the jacuzzi of Jack Nicholson's house. (The transcript of Gaillery's 1977 deposition can be read on thesmokinggun.com.) He fled the country when a plea bargain he'd negotiated was in jeopardy of being overturned. But Hollywood loves to forgive old reprobates; it is a way of congratulating them and its own sense of liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back...
...Academy Awards on March 23, JACK NICHOLSON will be up for his fourth Oscar. Three decades ago, he was just hitting his stride as an exemplar of the new Hollywood star...
...Easy Rider (1969) and in the freer, more personal films that flowed from its success, Nicholson became a kind of figurehead for a loose group of actors and filmmakers who were trying to expand the commercial genre...Their work was almost always full of aggressive invention, but the new Hollywood passed, the victim of erratic returns at the box office. Nicholson passed along with it, not out of sight, but on to other things. He worked into the mainstream, and started running with the high rollers. He now counts as two of his buddies Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans...