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...this time Nicholson had discovered that the "secret inner pressure about monogamy" was too great for him to bear, and he ambled off into a series of casual affairs. He and Sandra separated while he was writing the script for an LSD epic called The Trip-under medical supervision, Sandra once had a bad acid experience and was spooked by the subject-and when Nicholson finished the assignment, they decided to split up for good...
Soon after, Bob Rafelson was involved with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in preparing a motorcycle movie. Rafelson thought there was a good part for Nicholson, but Hopper wanted Rip Torn. Nicholson was dispatched to the set as a sort of production watchdog. He quickly became the right man at the right time. Torn dropped out of the movie, Nicholson moved in. Easy Rider wound up making $35 million. It also got Nicholson an Oscar nomination. All the scuffling was finally starting...
...Nicholson is honest enough to concede that there have been certain disadvantages. "There are two ways up the ladder-hand over hand or scratching and clawing. It's sure been tough on my nails." It has also been taxing on his social energies. After Easy Rider, Pal Harry Gittes (after whom Chinatown's shamus was named) remembers Nicholson buttonholing people if he got a look of even tentative recognition, "introducing himself and making himself unforgettable, one person at a time." Last year at Cannes he was observed doing similar gladhanding because he wanted to win the best-actor...
...good work and the unembarrassed politicking have paid off handsomely. Now, from a vantage point at the top of that ladder, Nicholson can settle in. Los Angeles is home base, where he lives with Anjelica Huston, daughter of Director John Huston (a co-star in Chinatown). From there, he and Anjelica, whom he calls Tootman, make frequent lavish forays to New York and Paris, where there are good shops, restaurants and many friends, and to Switzerland, where he likes...
Like many suddenly rich people, Jack's attitude toward money swivels wildly. Anjelica just got a Mercedes for her 23rd birthday. According to Mike Nichols, Nicholson always has "several thousand bucks out" to help friends over some rough spots. But Roman Polanski says that at other times Nicholson is "stingier than W.C. Fields." Once at Maxim's, Nicholson fought for and won the $600 check. When he found that one of his dinner companions could have taken care of the bill as a business expense, he was miserable...