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...clothes, good food and drink, compliant women. More than the luxury, though, he likes the taste of power. Lucien receives credentials and guns, which he displays freely with a certain sullen, anxious strength. But he never entirely dispels the impression of a child showing off new toys. A police pal takes him to his tailor to buy him his first suit...
...Mike Douglas, in Planet of the Apes makeup, strode onstage last week at Philadelphia's KYW-TV studios to tape his daily talk show. His first guest was Trainer Bill Hampton with Marvin the Magnificent, a 100-lb. chimp. To the delight of the audience, Marvin recognized a pal right away. He stroked Mike's unusually pale paw consideringly, then sat back on his haunches and let out a few friendly howls. "The volume could have parted your hair," said Mike later. When Douglas mimicked him and let out a few howls of his own, Marvin stared stonily...
Aiding him is a mechanic-pal named Deke (Adam Roarke), a barely reformed rummy who could go round the bend any minute. Only a girl is required to round out this formula, and it must be said of Susan George that she rounds it out very nicely indeed. Miss George makes something of a specialty of playing pouty jailbait (recall Straw Dogs), and she shows spunk-among other things-as she runs about in tight jeans and skimpy halters...
...tell me about it." Nicholson early inaugurated his lifetime habit of giving people nicknames. His sister Lorraine was "Rain," her husband George "Shorty." Nicholson referred to his father, however, as "Jack." He called his mother "Mud." He was reticent about his home life. Recalls George Anderson, a high school pal, now a salesman: "I knew his father was an alcoholic, but the only time Jack mentioned it was one day when he said, 'I saw my father yesterday. The poor old guy, I feel sorry for him because he can't help...
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...