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Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times
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 ...more
"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 ...more
Paperback, 484 pages
Published
December 3rd 2008
by John Wiley & Sons
(first published October 19th 2007)
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Jack Nicholson is a fascinating character - a man who found out the woman he believed to be his sister was really his mother and his "mother" was really his grandmother (not unlike one of his best movies Chinatown) - and one who has stayed at the top of the heap for decades. He's unapologetic in his demand for complete loyalty while at the same time he will simply cut off contact when he is displeased. He is a man who loves women but refuses to make compromises to have them in his lif...more
A very appropriate title for a book that concentrates on a character that spanned several decades. Actor biographies are a mixed bag: many are written with obvious bias. Some/most are written by fans who compare the star’s work to others, putting the star on a pedestal as a person who changed the world or inspired historical events. Sometimes they’re written with contempt towards the star and their egocentric/sloth lifestyle. MacDougal’s Jack bio falls somewhere in the middle of the pack.
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Interesting biography about one of my favorite movie stars.
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