Movies

Thunderhead - Son of Flicka
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
And of course,'' he says, ''I was a tremendous movie fan. I mean I got insane over 'Thunderhead,' which was the sequel to 'My Friend Flicka.' I mean, me and my two guys - my mom kept a box of pennies and I used to reach in there and take a handful and we went every day. That picture got me. I always loved movies.''

The Sting
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
I had enough business acumen to understand that both the Godfather and the Sting will be huge.

Howards End
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
Howards End is the brainy person's favourite picture of the year, so it's bound to win something. It's very well done, to the last second.

Lethal Weapon
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
He is an indefatigable conversationalist; on one tangent he touches on the Magna Carta, terrorism, Fidel Castro, Thomas Jefferson, the death penalty, solar power, Enron, Nostradamus, Thornton Wilder and the movie Lethal Weapon. No topic is off limits

The Godfather
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
I turned down the original Godfather because I thought it should’ve been played by an Italian. I both do and don’t regret that decision, but I know it was right. Al Pacino was the perfect actor for it and the picture’s better because of him.

Rififi in the City
In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince began to be killed one by one as well.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
As far as European movies are concerned, Monte Hellman educated me a lot. The only European films that were distributed out here were movies like Bitter Rice, Umberto D., Seven Samurai, Rififi at the Beverly Canon.

Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. A giant battle occurs when 40 bandits attack the village.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
As far as European movies are concerned, Monte Hellman educated me a lot. The only European films that were distributed out here were movies like Bitter Rice, Umberto D., Seven Samurai, Rififi at the Beverly Canon. Monte and B.J. Merhols, and a guy named Freddie Engleberg who ran the Unicorn, one of L.A.’s first coffee houses, and another guy named John Fless, whom I haven’t heard much of since, formed one of the first film clubs.

Umberto D.
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
As far as European movies are concerned, Monte Hellman educated me a lot. The only European films that were distributed out here were movies like Bitter Rice, Umberto D., Seven Samurai, Rififi at the Beverly Canon. Monte and B.J. Merhols, and a guy named Freddie Engleberg who ran the Unicorn, one of L.A.’s first coffee houses, and another guy named John Fless, whom I haven’t heard much of since, formed one of the first film clubs.

Bitter Rice
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
As far as European movies are concerned, Monte Hellman educated me a lot. The only European films that were distributed out here were movies like Bitter Rice, Umberto D., Seven Samurai, Rififi at the Beverly Canon. Monte and B.J. Merhols, and a guy named Freddie Engleberg who ran the Unicorn, one of L.A.’s first coffee houses, and another guy named John Fless, whom I haven’t heard much of since, formed one of the first film clubs.
Books

The Murder of Napoleon
The history books say that Napoleon died of natural causes. Napoleon himself, expiring at 51 after a lifetime of robust health, suspected otherwise and ordered a thorough autopsy. His suspicions were well-founded. So clever was the crime, however, that until recent developments in forensic science, it was impossible to prove a case of murder, let alone name the killer. Now, the authors of this fascinating book assert, it has been done-by a brilliant man whose 20-year inquest, a feat of detection, has produced one of history’s greatest surprises. What the critics say: "History at its most electrifying" - Newsweek "A nonfiction whodunit based on modern scientific technique" - New York Times "A spellbinding whodunit about one of history's greatest crimes" - History Book Club "Sensational ... as gripping as a detective novel yet scrupulously observant of historical fact" - Publishers Weekly "Thoroughly convincing... A major Odyssey in historical research" - Harold C. Deutsch, professor of military history, U.S. Army War College

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
Nicholson himself paid a quarter-million dollars for rights to a book called ''The Murder of Napoleon.'' He says he hasn't decided if he wants to play the role or just produce and direct the film.
''I've invested a lot in the subject,'' he says, meaning more than money. ''I sort of look at it like Shaw, Nietzsche, those kind of thinkers did, who consider Napoleon the man.

Dante's Inferno
This new critical edition, including Mark Musa's classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dante's masterpiece.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
Take a look at this,'' he demands, shoving a huge, musty tome into my hands. He takes it back and opens it up.
''It's Dante's 'Inferno,' and these are the original Gustave Dore illustrations. Look at that,'' he says pointing to an etching of a bat-winged demon tormenting a soul in some lower circle of hell.
He's been immersing himself in the subject: ''Aquinas and all those people discuss this, but they never arrive at a definition of evil, which I found interesting. The only thing they could come up with was that you couldn't define the principle because it was always a paradox of opposites.'

Humboldt's Gift
'I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius' John CheeverFor many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman and involved with a neurotic mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
I only wish the world would listen to me more, instead of bothering about my teeth and eyebrows. It reminds me of a character in a Saul Bellow story who's been in a hit show on a Broadway for a year, attracting a huge public, yet he's taught them nothing.'

Henderson the Rain King
Bellow evokes all the rich colour and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson's awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life earns him the admiration of the tribe - but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere hero into messiah. A hilarious, often ribald story, HENDERSON THE RAIN KING is also a profound look at the forces that drive a man through life.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
There’s nothing I’d like more creatively than to make a film on, say, the tone of My Old Sweetheart by Susannah Moore. It’s a tremendous first novel by someone I’ve known forever. If this were the period we keep talking about—the late Sixties, early Seventies—I could scheme that movie onto the screen. That, or Lie Down in Darkness, or Henderson the Rain King

Lie Down in Darkness
This portrait of a Southern family’s downfall was the literary debut of the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sophie’s Choice. A finalist for the National Book Award, Lie Down in Darkness centers on the Loftis family—Milton and Helen and their daughters, Peyton and Maudie. The story, told through a series of flashbacks on the day of Peyton’s funeral, is a powerful depiction of a family doomed by its failure to forget and its inability to love. Written in masterful prose that “achieves real beauty” (The Washington Post), William Styron’s debut novel offers unflinching insight into the ineradicable bonds of place and family. The story of Milton, Helen, and their children reveals much about life’s losses and disappointments. Lie Down in Darkness, poignant and compelling, is a classic of modern American literature from the author who went on to earn high critical acclaim—with a Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner and a National Book Award for Sophie’s Choice—and a place at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
There’s nothing I’d like more creatively than to make a film on, say, the tone of My Old Sweetheart by Susannah Moore. It’s a tremendous first novel by someone I’ve known forever. If this were the period we keep talking about—the late Sixties, early Seventies—I could scheme that movie onto the screen. That, or Lie Down in Darkness

My Old Sweetheart
Susanna Moore displays a naturalist's eye for the landscape of her native Hawaii and an uncanny sensitivity to the despairing love between mothers and daughters. Lily Shields grows up amid the heady atmosphere of her mother's madness. For if Anna Shields is an island unto herself - fragile, glamerous, and fearfully needy - lily is the bridge that connects her to reality. But now Lily is a young woman and a mother herself, self exiled from Hawaii but still attached to Anna's tragedy. And as she tries to untangle those threads of love and loyalty, Moore gives us a novel of shimmering beauty and sadness. MY OLD SWEETHEART is a small classic, perfectly formed and mysteriously wise.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
There’s nothing I’d like more creatively than to make a film on, say, the tone of My Old Sweetheart by Susanna Moore. It’s a tremendous first novel by someone I’ve known forever.

Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nietzsche famously regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his greatest work. However, despite Nietzsche's pervasive influence upon the philosopher and non-philosopher alike, and his own intense regard for Zarathustra, there has been relatively little serious study of Nietzsche's magnum opus.This book seeks to address this gap in the available literature by taking Thus Spoke Zarathustra seriously, not only with respect to its impact on the interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy, but also in light of the broader questions of the relationships between poetry, philosophy and existence. Fifteen leading Nietzsche scholars examine the structure, method, style and sources of Zarathustra as a philosophical text and its relationship to methodological and metaphilosophical questions amid the broader discussions of philosophy. The book also explores the implications of the philosophical questioning, interventions and teachings of Zarathustra with respect to both its negative engagement with the tradition and its attempt to set forth something new under the sun in its affirmative overcoming of nihilism.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it’s just more pollution of the airwaves. If you’re going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen
From the appearance in 1936 of Kenneth Patchen's first book, the voice of this great poet has been protesting war and social injustice, satirizing the demeaning and barbarous inanities of our culture--entrancing us with an inexhaustible flow of humor and fantasy. With directness and simplicity, he has restored the exaltation of romantic love to its ancient bardic place beside an awareness of God's living presence among all men. For this collection, assembled in his fifty-fourth year, Kenneth Patchen has drawn from the contents of twelve of his books. It provides the reader in many cases with the texts of poems no longer available even in rare editions.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
In that theoretical period of my life I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging—Kenneth Patchen and others
Music

Three Blind Mice

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
''I sang 'Three Blind Mice' for two years in his class,'' Nicholson says, grinning with a mixture of pride and rue. ''It's an exercise Lee Strasberg invented, the song exercise, and the purpose of it is what's known as 'diagnosis of the instrument.'
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Cohiba Robustos Supremos
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Cohiba Robustos Supremos
Cohiba is the flagship of Habanos and the most prestigious brand in the world of cigars. It was created in 1966 and was solely available as official gifts for heads of state and

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
But I'm not really a connoisseur. I just know I love Montecristos, Cohibas and Romeo y Julietas.

Romeo y Julieta Romeo No. 3 Tubos

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
I don't think they are from Cuba. I think they are either Dominican or Jamaican. But they are smokable, in my opinion. But I'm not really a connoisseur. I just know I love Montecristos, Cohibas and Romeo y Julietas."

Montecristo
Montecristo 80 Aniversario was specially created by Habanos to commemorate the establishment of this legendary brand in 1935. It’s unique size, not found anywhere else ( 55 ring gauge x 165 mm length) together with its exquisite blend of special str

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
Nicholson pulls a long, fat Montecristo from his pocket and attempts to light it with a wooden match.
He seems to be having difficulty; the matches keep going out. "With all this cigar culture stuff," he says, tossing the bad match into an Art Deco ashtray and trying another one, "when are they going to make a decent match in America again? You can't light a cigar with one match anymore."

Brylcreem 3 in 1 Shining, Styling, and Conditioning Hair Cream for Men, 5.5 Ounce
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Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
I remember being proud of my hair. I was so good at doing my DA I used to comb the hair for the other guys. Brylcreem was my best friend.'
People

Marc Chagall

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
I like to play people that haven't existed yet, a future something, a cusp character. I have that creative yearning. Much in the way Chagall flies figures into the air - once it becomes part of the conventional wisdom, it doesn't seem particularly adventurous or weird or wild. . .
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5 Artists Jack Nicholson Likes
Their paintings are hanging in his living room.

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
Their paintings are hanging in his living room.
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Marcel Duchamp

Jack Nicholson
Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.
This was the collage period in painting, the influence of Duchamp and others. The idea of not building monuments was very strong among idealistic people.
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