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...sudden appearance of unsightly body hair aside, there are, it turns out, certain advantages to lycanthropy, especially in its early stages. Unnoticed by previous wolfman epics, they prove useful to Will Randall (Jack Nicholson), an editor fighting for his professional life, and equally beneficial to Wolf in establishing a tone -- half social satire, half dark romance -- that is unique in the annals of horror movies...
...Nicholson's transformations that lie at the heart of the movie's success. This may be slam-dunk casting, demonic being the thing we most happily pay our money to see him do. But he calibrates his shifts to the lupine -- a cock of the head, a twitch of the nostril, a panicky glint in the eye -- with delicious subtlety. Mike Nichols, the director, finds all the right angles to enhance Nicholson's effects, which are wholly a product of the actor's technique, not a makeup artist...
...provoking authentic laughter with their satirical thrusts at current corporate styles (Spader is a hilarious model of yuppie unctuousness), they make sure we are amused often and always at the right moments. If Nichols had less skill, we would crack up when the moon is full and Nicholson's stunt double starts leaping around the countryside, but using low light and slow motion, the director displays great tact in those passages...
...Wolf, Jack Nicholson is funny, scary and hairy...
...love with producing and plan to make it my life's work," he announced while still a senior at Collegiate. During the 1970s and early '80s, he produced movies (The Blockhouse, The Border) and plays (Ladies of the Alamo). Some shows featured such stars as Peter Sellers and Jack Nicholson, but none achieved much critical or financial success. Bronfman was a bit luckier in a fling at songwriting. Dionne Warwick recorded a love song he wrote, Whisper in the Dark. Efer "eloped" (his word) with Sherry Brewer, a black model-actress and close friend of Warwick. They had three children...