Jack Nicholson
Summary
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters.Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards twelve times. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade since the 1960s (the other one being Michael Caine).
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Marvin Shanken Lights Up
Twenty years after launching Cigar Aficionado, Marvin Shanken looks back on the unexpected success of the high-end men’s lifestyle magazine. Adweek: When you started the magazine, no one seemed to think it was a good idea but you. Why’d you go ahead with it? The more people told me not to do it, the more I upgraded my vision.
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Playboy Releases 50 of Its Best Interviews Over 50 Days Exclusively in Amazon's Kindle Store
"I'm a human being. I'm not a package you can put in a box: 'Here's an ignorant Georgia farmer. He's gotta be a liar and a racist. '" -- Jimmy Carter, November 1976 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4, 2012— In its. . .
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Media Decoder Blog: Hollywood Agent's Estate Sale Displays Star Power
Sue Mengers, who died in October, kept mementos from clients like Barbra Streisand and other celebrities like Jack Nicholson.
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Hollywood Agent's Estate Sale Displays Star Power
Sue Mengers, who died in October, kept mementos from clients like Barbra Streisand and other celebrities like Jack Nicholson.
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Sheen Wants New TV Legacy With 'Anger Management'
"I just didnât want ['Two and a Half Men'] to be my television legacy. I wanted to do something that ended better," Sheen told reporters about throwing himself into his new cable comedy "Anger Management," at a Television Critics Association event on Jan. 8.
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Trailer Mash 12-16-11
In a trailer that looks more like a YouTube tribute video, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol takes all your favorite stunts from 15 years of Mission: Impossible flicks and ramps them so far up the redonkulous scale that it weakens your brain to watch them. Remember how MI2 opens with Tom clinging by his fingertips to the side of the Paramount mountain? Then on the Petronas Towers? This time it's the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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Regis Philbin Talks David Letterman Lip Lock
After an astonishing five decades on live television, Regis Philbin is hanging up his hat and saying goodbye to "Live!" But he's not going out without a few last words -- Philbin is taking a long look back at his career in How I Got This Way, a new book filled with affectionate portraits of celebrities like David Letterman, Jack Nicholson and Howard Stern.
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Actually, I Have One Significant Condition Before I Will Agree To Become CEO Of Yahoo...
Yahoo's effort to chop itself up and sell off its parts seems to be taking longer than expected.
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Charlie Sheen to make TV comeback with the help of Anger Management
Erratic star to return on News Corp-owned FX channel next summer in sitcom based on Jack Nicholson film.
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Deep Throat and a run-in with the red pen | Media Monkey
Monkey's contender for headline of the week: Kiss Kiss, Gang Bang: Pauline Kael, Deep Throat and The New Yorker. This fruity little number adorns Lili Anolik's New York Observer piece about the battles between Kael and her New Yorker editor William Shawn over references to sex in her film reviews.
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