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GOIN' SOUTH Directed by Jack Nicholson...
...Jack Nicholson, like most big stars, can make almost any movie he wants. He can requisition any Hollywood blockbuster that captures his fancy; he can fly off to Europe and make metaphysical thrillers with Antonioni. This time around he has rejected both of these traditional options, choosing instead to direct himself in a comic western romance called Goin' South. It is a peculiar choice. Goin' South is not likely to be a commercial smash, but neither is it artistically ambitious. The film is just a small inconsequential frolic: always eccentric, sometimes wonderful, and never pretentious. It works...
...Michael Nicholson, manager of the Off the Wall Theatre, said yesterday his operating permit specifically states that showings can run from 4:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. "To the best of my memory, when we applied for our general license someone asked what hours we would be showing movies. We told him and he just typed it on the permit...
King of Marvin Gardens, for the uninitiated (and there are many), is a wonderful and very bizarre film about two brothers--Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern, here originating the psycho role Dern has used for the past six years--who spend a weekend in Atlantic City during the winter. Anyone who has ever been to Atlantic City in the winter knows that it's the most desolate, depressing place on the East Coast (not that it's all that great in summer). Brackman lived there for five years as a child, staying with a grandfather in the hotel business...
...When all that attention started," Springsteen, now 28, reflects, "I was out in L.A. and Jack Nicholson came to a show. I asked him how he handled the attention. He said, for him, it was a long time coming and he was mostly glad to have it. I didn't see it quite that way. I bundled it all together into one general experience and labeled it 'bad.' I felt control over my life and career was slipping away and that all the attention was . . . like . . . an obstacle. But that was a mistake. After a while I realized, well, time...