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‘How do you write women so well?’ – awed publishers’ receptionist ‘I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.’ – Melvin Udall Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt won Best Actor and […]
‘Nice planet. We’ll take it!’ A flying saucer buzzes round the Warner Brothers logo, the US President announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth, but the bug-eyed guys claim ‘We come in peace!’ Phew, that’s […]
Jack Nicholson’s barnstorming performance dominates Stanley Kubrick’s superlative 1980 chiller The Shining, based (remotely) on the Stephen King novel. Shelley Duvall is also admirable in a tour-de-force as his highly-strung wife in peril. Jack Nicholson’s […]
Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-film noir detective movie Chinatown, set in a wonderfully realised 1937 Los Angeles, is beyond brilliant. Robert Towne won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Director Roman Polanski and writer Robert Towne’s […]
The young Jack Nicholson is the king of what was then new Hollywood in Bob Rafelson’s marvellous 1972 gem The King of Marvin Gardens. The young Jack Nicholson is the king of what was then […]