Word: nicholsons
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...will. And here's something else to talk about: Nicholson's new movie, Something's Gotta Give, is a chick flick about as unapologetic as they come. Can Jack, the unrepentant seducer, the legendary monster of appetites, the roguish charmer, turn himself into the king of hearts? Or put another way, would you buy from this man an unblushing, sentimental, picnics-on-the-beach romantic comedy about the joys of committed love...
...pace to merge completely with his neck sometime around 2008. But it's still a face made for acting--all punctuation marks, from those pointy circumflex eyebrows to the profound parentheses on either side of his mouth. Lounging in his favorite suite at a New York City hotel, Nicholson sits in an armchair and drinks coffee and smokes Camel Lights. After a weekend of interviews, his lilting, comforting-yet-unnerving voice is shot to the point that it's just a husky growl, but Nicholson is a talker, and when he wants to talk, by God, he's going...
...Nicholson has made a point of defying expectations lately--his physical transformation into a stoop-shouldered loser retiree in last year's About Schmidt earned him his 12th Oscar nomination, and a goofball turn opposite Adam Sandler in Anger Management showed that he can mix it up with the most sophomoric. But Something's Gotta Give, which opens on Dec. 12, reads like an attempt to completely dismantle his public persona: he spends the first half of the movie playing directly to type and the second half dead set against it. Nicholson plays Harry Sanborn, 63, a rich, unmarried...
...Nicholson doesn't galvanize quite as many conversations as he used to. Jack's not as nimble as he once was, or as quick, and his fighting years are behind him. Who knows? Maybe he's not the rapacious Lothario he once was--maybe he's starting to go a little soft on us. "I was always more confrontational than I was tough enough to back it up," he growls. "You know what I mean? And now I can't back anything up. I definitely have to endure the distant insult a little bit more than is my nature...
Take writer-director Nancy Meyers' Something's Gotta Give, in which Jack Nicholson plays Harry, an aging playboy who happens to catch a glimpse of his young girlfriend's mom (Diane Keaton) in the nude. What with her feminist overachieving and all, she has become something of a prune, sexually speaking. But he has his charms, and one rainy day she succumbs to them. Nothing wrong with that. Their sex scene, despite what Meyers reports as a certain understandable shyness by her players, is agreeably managed. What's less agreeable is this movie's smugness. It's so pleased...