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Over the years he has become a figure somewhat larger than life. Among his colleagues he has no peer. "He gave us our freedom," says Jack Nicholson. Brando himself is stubborn about his freedom-to champion unpopular causes, to choose his own scripts and, above all, to lead a very private life on the island of Tetiaroa, 30 miles north of Tahiti. There last week, TIME Correspondent Leo Janos became the first American journalist to interview Brando in his isolated tropical paradise...
...soon as it's said; it doesn't look so good there either. The speeches are bloated, the cowboy banter is self-conscious, the themes muddy. Next big trouble comes when you begin to feel that the film was slapped together in about 62 hours. Those who love Nicholson will walk away angry because the middle-aged rebel has been strait-jacketed and glucosized into some lousy love story. The only palatable thing about his playing straight man is whom he's playing straight man to. Brando is just incredibly funny, careless, silly and selfish. He's like a drunk...
...Nicholson '76 approached Thomas J. Curley '78 that way last spring, and Curley was interested. He didn't have a job lined up for the summer, and the money certainly sounded good. But after a few weeks of working for Southwestern Publishing Co. last summer in Tucson, Ariz., Curley packed up and went home...
...Towne's amazing screenplay sketches the self-cannibalizing character of urban growth. There is no scene in the movie which doesn't reek of the Noah Cross character's scent. If there's any weak spoke, it's the banality of the "Chinatown" theme, which never really rings true. Nicholson, it seems, can dip endlessly into some well of inventiveness and charm and never scrape. His J.J. Gittes destroys and transcends the romantic stereotype of the hard-boiled dick; the more he learns about power relations, the less he finds himself able to do about them. The movie...
...Shooting (Jack Nicholson) at 4 and 8; One-Eyed Jacks (Brando directs himself in an anti-western...