| Nicholsons Childhood Home Up For Sale | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 11:10:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oscar winner JACK NICHOLSON's childhood home is up for sale on internet auction site eBay com The ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST actor was brought up by his grandparents JOHN and ETHEL NICHOLSON in the Neptune, New Jersey home, and spent the first 37 years of his life believing they were his parents, until it was revealed in 1974 that his 'sister' JUNE FRANCES was actually his mother Real estate agency Remax has placed the five-bedroom 1920s home for auction on eBay com at a starting bid of $449,000 (GBP249,400), which is set to end on 18 November (06) The home is actually listed as the place of his birth on his birth certificate, however Bellevue Hospital Center in nearby New York City has also been named as such 26/10/2006 12:47 .... | |
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| | | Dearly Departed | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:05:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK -- NEW YORK -- Working opposite screen legend Jack Nicholson in Martin Scorcese's new Irish mob film, The Departed, was unpredictable, often dangerous and sometimes hysterical. And young Hollywood turks Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, whose characters both have father-son relationships with Nicholson's powerful, scary mob boss Frank Costello in the Boston-set film, wouldn't have had it any other way. "As far as Jack is concerned, you kind of expected the unexpected," says DiCaprio, 31, at a Manhattan press conference to promote the violent crime drama opening tomorrow. "You know, to have Jack Nicholson join up with Martin Scorcese and play a gangster is something I think a lot of movie fans have been waiting for. He came in and then he left. But those were certainly some of the most intense moments of the film for me, certainly.... | |
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| | | Unsolved mystery grips 'Hollywoodland' to the end | | Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:12:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE FIRST HALF: If you remember "Chinatown," the great Roman Polanski film with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, then you remember Los Angeles in the 1930s, a place where greed and its grimy underbelly rose to power. Polanski created that world and carried you there on the performances of Nicholson, Dunaway and John Huston. "Hollywoodland," an engaging but ultimately unsatisfying tale of the mystery surrounding Superman actor George Reeves' death in 1959, tries for the same authenticity of mood, but settles instead for strong performances in a film lacking the soul of its time. Hollywood was in the waning days of a revolution, when studios were losing their iron grip on actors and television was changing the rules. Aside from a couple of clips of dialogue, the state of Hollywood in the 1950s is pretty much pushed aside.... | |
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| | | Jimmy Carr as Jack Nicholson | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 5:09:32 AM by Blog57 Team | | Jack Nicholson: an actor who is loved, loathed and not afraid to cause offence. Jimmy Carr: a comedian who is feted, hated and seemingly compelled to seek out offence. He's also suited and booted and immaculate, as a rule. You can't imagine him reprising one of the scariest moments in cinematic history - until he is coaxed into snarling "Here's Johnny!" through the splintered door. Yikes. So does he see any similarities between himself and Jack? "No," says Carr, drily. "He's. Incredibly. Cool." The most common complaint about comedians is that they are disappointingly unfunny when you assail them in the supermarket on a chilly Tuesday morning. Carr, however, seems permanently stuck in wisecracking mode. There is a strange saddle-type leather stool in the studio. "It is possible to lose your virginity on that seat," he says sternly to the stylist.... | |
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| | | Defamer Corrections: Jack Nicholson's Appendage | | Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 1:18:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | In discussing a story about Jack Nicholson's "rewriting" of a sex scene in The Departed to include a "prosthetic appendage" and the dusting of an actress's posterior with cocaine, we inadequately identified the appendage as a "dildo." These pictures from a Dutch magazine (and posted at Twitch) clearly demonstrate that the appendage might be more accurately described as a "strap-on." We apologize for our failure to fully recognize Mr. Nicholson's inventiveness and dedication to craft. [Click the picture to see the full, very Not Safe For Work version.] Funny, I Don't Remember Anybody Wearing A Strap-On In The Original [Twitch] Jack Nicholson Demands Dildos And Blow [Defamer] .... | |
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| | | Good Gators put the fun in football | | Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 3:06:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Admit it, in the deepest recess of your innermost sanctum, you are rooting for Urban Meyer to succeed at the University of Florida. And we're not just talking about Florida fans, but Florida State fans and Miami fans, too. And apparel salesmen and even wise-guy sports columnists. With apologies to Jack Nicholson: "You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want the Gators on that wall, you need the Gators on that wall." Florida fans want them on the wall so they can kneel below and genuflect when the Gators rise up and contend for a championship. Florida State and Miami fans need them on the wall so they can stand above and guffaw after they send the Gators crashing down from their pretentious perch.... | |
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| | | Scripted to scare | | Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:09:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sure, haunted-house movies have the clattering shutters, the creaks and moans, the slamming doors and the sudden appearances of ghosts out of nowhere. But sometimes it's the words that give us the willies. Our favorite lines from spook-house movies: "It was an evil house from the beginning, a house that was born bad." Prototypical ghostbuster (played by Richard Johnson) surveying the scene in Robert Wise's 1963 classic "The Haunting," which remains the greatest haunted-house movie ever made. "Heeeeere's .... | |
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| | | Heath Ledger rumoured for Joker role | | Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:08:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | He's played everything from a gay cowboy and helmet-clad bush ranger to a con-artist and heroin junkie. But are rumours that Heath Ledger will star in the next instalment of Batman just a big joke? A report on film website Latino Review, which was first to break the news that Brandon Routh would star in the latest Superman flick, says it has been informed by a "very trusted source" that the Australian heart-throb has been offered the role of The Joker in the sequel to Batman Begins. Ledger follows Robin Williams and Mark Hamill as actors rumoured to reprise the role that Jack Nicholson played in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman feature. But the idea of the 27-year-old playing The Joker has some movie critics scratching their heads. "Ledger seems spectacularly unsuited to the weirdness of The Joker," writes Josh Tyler on the Cinema Blend website.... | |
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| | | Knightley's Relationship Turmoil | | Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 1:04:50 AM by Blog57 Team | | Keira Knightley has sparked speculation she is backing away from boyfriend Rupert Friend, after the disappointed actor complained how "she never comes home" to him anymore. Knightley told reporters at the London premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" on Monday she "definitely" has no plans to marry her "Pride & Prejudice" co-star. And Friend seemed jealous of her apparent closeness to co-star Orlando Bloom, with whom she shares a screen smooch. Knightley said, "I'm going to take time off because of myself, mainly, not because of him. Let's see how things go there." Friend complained, "It must have been a hard job kissing Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. I'm sure she hated every minute of it." He then added, "She hardly ever comes home to me." .... | |
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| | | Nicholson, Freeman to kick the 'Bucket' in Reiner film | | Posted Sunday, July 02, 2006 3:03:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES : Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman will star in Rob Reiner's "The Bucket List" about two terminally ill friends who check off a mad wish list before kicking the bucket, Variety reported Thursday. Nicholson and Freeman, both 69, play patients who break out of a cancer ward and head out on a spree, to indulge in the finest food, auto racing and high-stakes poker in Monte Carlo, the entertainment industry newspaper said. Reports said shooting will begin in October, financed by Reiner, who earned fame with "When Harry Met Sally" in 1989, and more recently directed the Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Costner vehicle "Rumour Has It." Nicholson has been nominated 12 times for the Oscar, as best actor in 1976 in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and in 1998 for "As Good as It Gets". Freeman won the Oscar in 1990 for "Driving Miss Daisy" and in 2005 for a supporting role in "Million Dollar Baby" directed by Clint Eastwood.... | |
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