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Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson (Updated and Expanded)

Patrick McGilligan
Jack s Life A Biography of Jack Nicholson Updated and Expanded Book PDF

Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393350975

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Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson (Updated and Expanded) by Patrick McGilligan Pdf

“Jack’s Life feels true. . . . Fascinating.”—Entertainment Weekly Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America’s outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its publication twenty years ago. Jack’s Life captures the essence of this most private and public of stars with a vivid depiction of Nicholson’s tangled Dickensian upbringing, his hungry years as actor and writer, his nearaccidental breakthrough in Easy Rider, and his prolificacy and artistry ever since, with roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, and The Departed, to name a beloved handful of his sixty-plus films. McGilligan captures the life and legacy of this unabashed and complex personality

Jack Nicholson: Anatomy of an Actor

Beverly Walker
Jack Nicholson Anatomy of an Actor Book PDF

Author : Beverly Walker
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0714866687

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Jack Nicholson: Anatomy of an Actor by Beverly Walker Pdf

Throughout his career, Jack Nicholson has portrayed unique and challenging roles in classic movies such as Easy Rider (1969), Chinatown (1974), The Shining (1980), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983), The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and The Departed (2006). Nicholson's twelve Oscar nominations make him the most nominated male actor in history. Jack Nicholson: Anatomy of an Actor is a new addition to Cahiers du cinema, a fascinating series from the world-renowned cinema magazine. The book focuses on ten key performances, exploring the unparalleled career of Jack Nicholson through narrative and analytical text accompanied by 300 images, including film stills and set photographs, as well as film sequences, script notes, and more. This thoughtful and lively examination of Nicholson's craft will appeal to film professionals and casual movie fans alike.

Jack Nicholson

Robert Crane,Christopher Fryer
Jack Nicholson Book PDF

Author : Robert Crane,Christopher Fryer
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813136158

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Jack Nicholson by Robert Crane,Christopher Fryer Pdf

Originally published in 1975, this book is about the enigmatic star and the only one to have Nicholson's participation. In 1975 Nicholson was just becoming a household name in spite of having already starred in, written or produced 25 films.

Becoming Jack Nicholson

Shaun R. Karli
Becoming Jack Nicholson Book PDF

Author : Shaun R. Karli
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810885981

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Becoming Jack Nicholson by Shaun R. Karli Pdf

Examining eight films produced between 1969 and 1980, this book explores how the actor and the filmmakers played upon audience expectations of "Jack Nicholson" to challenge prevailing attitudes about masculinity and power. In each of these films-Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, C...

Nicholson

Marc Eliot
Nicholson Book PDF

Author : Marc Eliot
Publisher : Crown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307888389

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Nicholson by Marc Eliot Pdf

The definitive biography of a man with one of the most iconic and fascinating careers—and lives—in Hollywood. For six decades, Jack Nicholson has been part of film history. With three Oscar wins and twelve nominations to his credit and legendary roles in films like Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Terms of Endearment, The Shining, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nicholson created original, memorable characters like no other actor of his generation. And his offscreen life has been no less of an adventure—Nicholson has always been at the center of the Hollywood elite and has courted some of the most famous and beautiful women in the world. Relying on years of extensive research and interviews with insiders who know Nicholson best, acclaimed biographer Marc Eliot sheds light on Nicholson’s life on and off the screen. From Nicholson’s working class childhood in New Jersey, where family secrets threatened to tear his family apart, to raucous nights on the town with Warren Beatty and tumultuous relationships with starlets like Michelle Phillips, Anjelica Huston, and Lara Flynn Boyle, to movie sets working with such legendary directors and costars as Dennis Hopper, Stanley Kubrick, and Meryl Streep, Eliot paints a sweeping picture of the breadth of Nicholson’s decades-long career in film and an intimate portrait of the real man. Both a comprehensive tribute to a film legend and an entertaining look at a truly remarkable life, Nicholson is a compulsively readable biography of an iconic Hollywood star.

Five Easy Decades

Dennis McDougal
Five Easy Decades Book PDF

Author : Dennis McDougal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780471722465

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Five Easy Decades by Dennis McDougal Pdf

Praise for Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times "Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, nobody's fool. This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American culture and celebrity. I always read Mr. McDougal for pointers but worry that he will end up in a tin drum off the coast of New Jersey." — Patrick McGilligan, author of Jack's Life and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light Praise for Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty "A great freeway pileup—part biography, part dysfunctional family chronicle, and part institutional and urban history, with generous dollops of scandal and gossip." — Hendrick Hertzberg, The New Yorker "McDougal has managed to scale the high walls that have long protected the Chandler clan and returned with wicked tales told by angry ex-wives and jealous siblings." —The Washington Post Praise for The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood "Real glamour needs a dark side. That is part of the fascination of Dennis McDougal's wonderful book." —The Economist "Thoroughly reported and engrossing . . . the most noteworthy trait of MCA was how it hid its power." —The New York Times Book Review "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top." — Michael Blowen, The Boston Globe

The Essential Jack Nicholson

James L. Neibaur
The Essential Jack Nicholson Book PDF

Author : James L. Neibaur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442269897

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The Essential Jack Nicholson by James L. Neibaur Pdf

For ten years Jack Nicholson toiled in low-budget films and guest spots in such television shows as Dr. Kildare and The Andy Griffith Show before his breakout performance in Easy Rider. Despite “retiring” in 2010, Nicholson remains one of the most revered actors of the last half century. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards—the most of any male actor—Nicholson has received three Oscars and countless other honors. The Essential Jack Nicholson looks at the key films in the career of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. After a brief profile of the actor, James L. Neibaur highlights each of Nicholson’s most important works, explaining why his performances are essential viewing. In addition to Easy Rider, the films discussed include Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Shining, Reds, Terms of Endearment, Prizzi’s Honor, Ironweed, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt, and The Departed. Neibaur also provides details about each film’s production, critical reaction, commercial reception, major nominations, and awards. A filmography of all of Nicholson’s movie roles (and select television performances) is also included. The Essential Jack Nicholson is a valuable source of information for fans of this iconic star and his films.

The Big Goodbye

Sam Wasson
The Big Goodbye Book PDF

Author : Sam Wasson
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250301833

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The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written. Praise for Sam Wasson: "Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker "Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als

Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson

Hunter S. Thompson
Happy Birthday Jack Nicholson Book PDF

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Journalists
ISBN : 0141022434

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Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. High priest of hedonism and godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson was renowned for his counterculture masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which described his chemical-addled adventures in 1970s America. Taken from Thompson's brilliantly entertaining autobiography, Kingdom of Fear - the last book published before his death earlier this year - these pieces provide a hilarious but now also painful insight into the life and the mind of a true literary outlaw.

Becoming Jack Nicholson

Shaun R. Karli
Becoming Jack Nicholson Book PDF

Author : Shaun R. Karli
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810885998

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Becoming Jack Nicholson by Shaun R. Karli Pdf

One of the most celebrated figures in the world of cinema, Jack Nicholson has appeared in more than fifty films, stamping each with his larger-than-life presence. Because Nicholson brought a set of traits and attitudes with him to his roles that the actor and filmmakers variously inflected, audiences associated certain characteristics with his screen identity. At times his rebelliousness was celebrated as an act of self-expression against an oppressive system (Five Easy Pieces, The Passenger, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), and at others it was revealed as an absurd masculine fantasy (The Last Detail, Chinatown, and The Shining). In each, the actor embodies an inherent tension between a desire to make authentic choices and a pressure to conform to societal expectations of manly behavior. In Becoming Jack Nicholson: The Masculine Persona from Easy Rider to The Shining, Shaun Karli looks at the actor’s on-screen presence in eight key films between 1969 and 1980. Karli explores how in each of these films, the actor and the filmmakers played upon audience expectations of “Jack Nicholson” to challenge prevailing attitudes about masculinity and power. Focusing on the actor's image in a string of counterculture films that spanned the 1970s, Karli argues that audiences created a composite "understanding" of the Nicholson persona in these movies. Examining both the actor and the on-screen version of the Nicholson character, this book offers a fascinating look at one of the major screen figures of the past forty years. Becoming Jack Nicholson will appeal to scholars of cinema, but also to those interested in gender studies, American studies, and sociology.

Quintessential Jack

Scott Edwards
Quintessential Jack Book PDF

Author : Scott Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476630861

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Quintessential Jack by Scott Edwards Pdf

After several years of small roles and experimental screenwriting during his early career, Jack Nicholson got his big break in 1969 with Easy Rider. The next year Five Easy Pieces made him a star. Since then the 12-time Academy Award nominee has won Best Actor twice (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and As Good as It Gets). This critical study examines each of Nicholson’s film roles, as well as his screenwriting and directorial efforts. Fascinating personal insights are provided through interviews with stars such as Mews Small, James Hong, Millie Perkins, Michael Margotta, Shirley Knight, Joe Turkel, Ed Nelson, Hazel Court, the Monkees, several Apollo astronauts, Hell’s Angel Sonny Barger, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, and many more.

Jack

John Parker
Jack Book PDF

Author : John Parker
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 9781844544059

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Jack by John Parker Pdf

At a time of life when most people think of retiring, Jack Nicholson remains as energetic and charismatic as ever. Known for his trademark shark's grin and sunglasses, Nicholson has been acting for the past 37 years, and has just celebrated 25 years since the classicThe Shiningwas released. This book shares the truth about this avid LA Lakers fan, partying legend, and charismatic performer, revealed with the help and cooperation of many of Nicholson's Hollywood associates. John Parker traces the astonishing rise to stardom of a boy who was brought up to believe his grandmother was his mother and his mother his sister. This unorthodox childhood was the start of an incredible journey that included Oscar success, a string of high-profile lovers, and a long-term relationship with Anjelica Huston. This comprehensive biography goes behind the wolfish grin to discover that there is much more to Nicholson than the good-time partying figure found regularly in gossip columns; he does remain, after all these years, untamed and wild.

Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson

Patrick McGilligan
Jack s Life A Biography of Jack Nicholson Book PDF

Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393248418

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Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson by Patrick McGilligan Pdf

"Volatile Jack Nicholson has found the perfect biographer in Patrick McGilligan, who gives us a rich, absorbing portrait of one of the greatest movie stars ever." —Patricia Bosworth No male American film star of the post-Brando era has demonstrated the talent, the charisma, the larger-than-life audacity, and the string of screen triumphs of Jack Nicholson. In Jack's Life, Patrick McGilligan, one of our finest film historians, has produced the definitive biography of this most private and public of stars, from his tangled Dickensian upbringing in New Jersey, his formative years as an actor and screenwriter, his near-accidental breakthrough to stardom in Easy Rider, and his string of great roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Last Detail, The Shining, and other films that mark him as a searching, complex artist. Here as well is the often Rabelaisian life behind the smiling mask, the legendary romances and appetites for sex and drugs, the obsessions with money and control, and the perpetual restlessness.

"If the Other Guy Isn't Jack Nicholson, I've Got the Part"

Ron Base
If the Other Guy Isn t Jack Nicholson I ve Got the Part Book PDF

Author : Ron Base
Publisher : Chicago : Contemporary Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015033987861

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"If the Other Guy Isn't Jack Nicholson, I've Got the Part" by Ron Base Pdf

Base examines the complex chemistry of movie stardom--a potent mix of greed and cunning, ego and casting, dedication and just plain dumb luck.

Hollywood Hellraisers

Robert Sellers
Hollywood Hellraisers Book PDF

Author : Robert Sellers
Publisher : Random House
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409050353

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Hollywood Hellraisers by Robert Sellers Pdf

'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.' Marlon Brando 'I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.' Dennis Hopper 'The best time to get married is noon. That way, if things don't work out, you haven't blown the whole day.' Warren Beatty 'You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police.' Jack Nicholson They're the baddest bad asses Hollywood has ever seen: Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson. These are men for whom rules did not apply, men for whom normal standards of behaviour were simply too wearisome to worry about. These are men who brawled, boozed, snorted and shagged their way into legend-hood - but along the way they changed acting and the way movies were made forever. Hollywood Hellraisers is a whistle-stop tour of jaw-dropping sexual activity, misbehaviour of an Olympic standard, all-out excess and genuine madness. It's a wonder Hollywood survived.