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...illness--that anyone deviating from the bland norm should be locked up and lobotomized--and reverses it, adding no subtleties in the process. The result is a prescription that "order" is wrong and that "sub-normal twits and gibbering hunks of animality" should inherit the earth. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at a relatively quiet ward in a mental institution, where three-quarters of the patients are "voluntaries," and he proceeds to wreak havoc. The only crazy thing about him, he claims, is that all he wants to do is "fight and fuck." The state work farm has referred...
...PASSENGER. A thriller that is also a cipher about a journalist (Jack Nicholson) who swaps identities with a dead man. Michelangelo Antonioni's film is full of dead-end romanticism and voluptuous mystery...
...First on my list is R.A. d'Hulst's four volume edition of Jordaen's Drawings. My second Christmas book is Archibald MacLeish's The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn printed by Harvard Press. Also, Nicholson and Troutman's Letters of Virginia Woolf--I expect to find them under my tree Christmas morning...
...movie version of Cuckoo 's Nest is faithful to the external events of the novel−no complaints there. The tro ble is that it betrays no awareness that the events are subject to multiple interpretations. Jack Nicholson plays Mc Murphy as an unambiguously charming figure, a victim of high spirits, perhaps, but without a dark side or even any gray shadings. He is a fine fellow to spend a couple of hours with, but he has no depth or resonance, and his fate leaves us curiously untouched. Similarly, the zany behavior of his fellows is amusing...
...studded double features (and not a re-run of the sixth game) can catch either Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (adventure on the Congo) and Treasure of the Sierra Madre (adventure south of the Border) at the Harvard Square Theatre or brave the Red Line to see Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail and Five Easy Pieces at Cinema...