Jack's Life - by Patrick McGilligan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>No male American film star of the post-Brando era has demonstrated the talent, charisma, the larger-than-life audacity, and the string of screen triumphs of Jack Nicholson. Now one of America's finest film historians has produced the definitive biography of this most private and public of stars. Photos. Second serial to Cosmopolitan.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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 <em>Easy Rider</em>, and his prolificacy and artistry ever since, with roles in <em>Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets</em>, and <em>The Departed</em>, to name a beloved handful of his sixty-plus films. McGilligan captures the life and legacy of this unabashed and complex personality<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Patrick McGilligan's book has always been the one Jack deserved--intimate, funny, understanding, an inside job. I sometimes wonder if Jack actually wrote it himself.--David Thomson, author of A Biographical Dictionary of Film<br>
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