Jack Nicholson

I keep thinking Connery was in Skyfall because that dad/Scotland role was so clearly meant for him.

James Cagney hated Billy Wilder so much he retired after One, Two, Three, then came back 20 years later for Ragtime.

Pretty sure Cary Grant announced his retirement 20 years before his death, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUfuN2DNJ0

The Sir Billi trailer I just watched makes me incredibly sad, like Connery may have been tricked in some sort of scheme and doesn't have people around him looking out for his best interests. Alan Cumming is in it too, but Alan Cumming will do anything.

Nicholson's rep denying retirement and memory loss

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_IVurj2Od0

Orion to thread

Producer Jerome Hellman bought the rights to Theroux's novel as soon as it was published, and Weir committed to filming it. Jack Nicholson was originally offered the lead role, but backed out partly because he could not watch the LA Lakers from Belize, where part of the film was to be shot.[1] He instead went on to star in Terms of Endearment, a role Ford had also been offered.

80 today

The point at which he starts imitating himself is Cuckoo's Nest. Though he doesn't always.

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, May 5, 2013 9:10 PM (three years ago)

i haven't seen this film in a while, but i don't remember jack being too ott in this one. if anything he plays it down considerably from the larger-than-life character in kesey's novel.

I think he means that's where you start to see the seeds sewn for the rat mimicry to come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7TiA9qmuU

Film school should just be Jack Nicholson talking about Michelangelo Antonioni for free on the internet. pic.twitter.com/52kRFCjxxs

— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) October 15, 2020

The Crossing Guard is okay--over-the-top resolution (which is moving right at the end anyway), good stuff along the way. Sean Penn, one of our finest actors, was probably at the pinnacle of his career, acting in and directing a series of high-profile films. So he's got Nicholson and Angelica Huston, John Savage, Piper Laurie, Robin Wright (his wife), David Morse--it's an actor's film. He dedicates it to Charles Bukowski, so we know he has literary friends (just in case you still think of him as Jeff Spicoli). He gets a good performance out of Priscilla Barnes, from Three's Company. People were probably clamoring to be in anything he directed.

I'd say the best reason to watch it (Nicholson and Huston are fine) is Robin Wright. She so definitively became Claire Underwood for me, it was startling to see her younger, and how natural and quietly compelling she was. She dances to Salt-n-Pepa and it works. No use for Forrest Gump, but I know why Forrest fell in love with her.