Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bobby Dupea, strangled by a sense of his own failed talent, allowed Nicholson not only to turn on his own bursting temper, but to flash the charm that has its greatest single emblem in his smile, which seems to be cordially unsettling and made mostly of radium. David Staebler, on the other hand, required Nicholson to master a more dour, slippery confessional mode, to hide his character's feelings from himself under a barrage of autobiographical patchwork. Nicholson was equal to the task. It is his most daring performance, and one of his favorites...
...makes a shrewd choice to play persona rather than character-a commodity hi rather short supply in the script. His JJ. Gittes is cool, ironic, sympathetically small-time, a guy who stumbles on something a little bigger than he expected, or can manage. He also gets the chance to smile a lot. "That smile of his is simply a killer," says Nicholson's friend Diana Vreeland, former editor of Vogue, who ought to know a little something about smiles. "Jack must know it's devastating, because he uses it very rarely...
...high school, Mud's boy was younger and brighter than just about anyone else. "His smile was terrific," recalls Anderson. "He made plenty of friends who spanned several classes. Jack wasn't one of the heroes, but he made them his friends." He managed the varsity basketball team his freshman year. On one occasion he thought that the opposing team was playing dirty. After the game, Nicholson went back into the gym and trashed the electrical equipment on the rival's Scoreboard. He confessed his crime, got suspended from school, and took a part-time...
Flashing a beatific smile, the soft-spoken Moss promoted his idea to newsmen. Paeans to Freelandia appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek. By November, the exposure had attracted 2,000 members. Moss had leased a used DC-8 from National Airlines and, with certification from the Federal Aviation Administration, the club was offering flights across the country, to Honolulu and even to Europe...
...reader is meant to see the lifted eye brow and to smile. Then he is meant to see the sober truth of the statement be hind its mockery. Then the mockery be hind that sobriety and so on. What lies deeper, the mockery or the truth? It is a rare comic writer who can raise the question, and Kundera...