Word: nicholson
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...filmgoer of a certain age, your image of electroshock was shaped by such movies as The Snake Pit or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In the latter, a small army of orderlies and nurses restrain Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) as he is connected to the electrodes. The treatment is agonizing because McMurphy isn't given anesthesia, which has been routine for years...
Hopkins--who left the audience in hysterics with his Richard Nixon, Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson impressions--seemed amused by the tasks set before...
...CAFRITZ'S PRE-INAUGURAL SUPPER A tradition since 1980 for Cafritz, one of Washington's reigning socialites. Co-hosts are Phyllis George and Friend-o'-Dubya Nancy Brinker. Perhaps the hottest event--an intimate sit-down dinner where the press isn't welcome. At Buffy's 1993 soiree, Jack Nicholson stayed until 4 a.m. Westin Fairfax Hotel...
...film begins as it ends, with Jack Nicholson's Jerry Black wandering a desiccated landscape, mumbling crazily to himself. At first, of course, we do not know why he has reached this demented state. By the end of The Pledge, we do. What lies between is a highly intelligent, intricately constructed and curiously haunting puzzle, rich in psychological acuity and excellent performances, which, if not quite as satisfying as it might be, is still good enough...
...Nicholson is awfully good at suggesting inner tension without overplaying it. He's a great watcher at the crossroads. But then everyone in the cast (which includes Vanessa Redgrave and Helen Mirren) is good at playing normality while implying darker thoughts moving beneath the surface...