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...Nicholson's upstairs office are stacked airmail editions of his favorite paper, the international Herald Tribune -he plans to read every issue this year in a single sitting someday. Sundays are the province of his daughter Jennifer, 10, who visits, although her father says that he is "very tentative about infringing on Jenny's life. I want to be invited to enter her world, to be admitted gracefully...
Though he likes to have people around, Nicholson can still be remote. Anjelica admits that "Jack doesn't tip his hand very much." Instead of trying to explain him, she suggests mistily, one must "sense his essences." Indeed, anyone looking for something any more substantial than that from Nicholson may have applied to the wrong department...
...couple of the old gang wonder. Robert Towne says, "We haven't had a heart-to-heart talk in a long time." Sally Kellerman recalls that she and Nicholson used to share a funny code word which they used as a whispered greeting, "as our private signal that we still love each other. But I haven't said 'Boobs' to Jack in a couple of years...
What revelation there is likely to be from Nicholson will come from the screen. When Nicholson first began to make real progress in acting class, Jeff Corey noted that he excelled at an exercise called "abandonment," where all the stops are pulled out and only raw emotional truth-or the impression of it -remains. This is a difficult exercise for actors because they tend to take it too literally and lose control. There must be some calculation always working, some closed-off part that remains unmoved. For the same reason Nicholson's scenes of anger (particularly in Five Easy...
...reserved, tentative thing that depends on his stores of introspection and secret turmoil. Newer actors, younger ones, are already doing something a little different. Robert De Niro (in Mean Streets), Richard Dreyfuss (in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) are working in a broader, larger style-no more daring than Nicholson's but more aggressive and open...