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Cocks first spotted this week's cover subject as "a really aces actor" in the early 1960s, when Jack Nicholson was gracing drive-in screens in horror movies. In writing the story, Cocks drew on correspondents' files and the research aid of Pat Gordon, taking time out for a few quick antiaircraft battles at his favorite pinball parlor. The writing done, he turned his manuscript over to Senior Editor Martha Duffy, who asked Cocks to wait while she gave his piece a once-over reading. "I'm going to the movies," he announced. "You're what...
...Angeles Correspondent Leo Janos handled the bulk of the reporting, conducting eight hours of interviews with Nicholson at the actor's Los Angeles home. Before their first session Janos asked Nicholson for "a list of people in your life who may not be obvious to me-leave out close friends, former wife and girl friends...
...gregarious Nicholson reeled off more than 40 names. A few days later Janos was at Nicholson's house when "the phones-three separate lines-began ringing off the actor's wall." "My friends are reporting in from all over the place that they're being interviewed," Nicholson said, adding with some hyperbole: "It's like undergoing an FBI full-field check for a top-secret job. TIME marches...
...deep-dish whammy comes from a Lakers fanatic, bravura bench jockey and this year's monster movie star, Jack Nicholson. He is letting off a little steam by putting on the kind of pressure he gets and cultivates almost every day. Nicholson is a past master at the Hollywood psych, a vocational tool for professional survival he employs with a street fighter's energy and a gamesman's cunning. On this occasion, he is just taking it out for a little airing on behalf of Hollywood's favorite team...
...maximum effectiveness, the psych requires a jugular instinct for a rival's weakness-his most intimate ambition, an insubstantial boast or a small, fresh scar-and a sure knowledge that except on certain social or sporting occasions, the only boy on the home team is yourself. Jack Nicholson has been rattling and roughing up the competition since he started acting out in Hollywood in the late '50s-at first with very little luck. Then came a gradual success that right now is soaring...