Five Easy Decades : How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times|报价￥187.00|图书,进口原版,Others 其他,Dennis McDougal

品牌：Dennis McDougal

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·出版社：John Wiley & Sons

·页码：496 页码

·出版日：2007年

·ISBN：0471722464

·条码：9780471722465

·装帧：精装

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A Hollywood insider un-spins the life of Jack Nicholson, one of Tinseltown's most successful and intriguing actors

Unconventional, uninhibited, and unrestrained, Jack Nicholson is a famous-and infamous-pop-culture icon known for his romantic escapades, his hair-trigger temper, and his love affair with the L.A. Lakers. This candid, probing biography gives legions of fans a spellbinding, incisive look at the megawatt method actor with the enigmatic Cheshire cat grin.Written by a veteran journalist with access to Hollywood's heavy hitters, this fascinating chronicle spans half a century of star power, focusing on one of filmdom's most celebrated folk heroes. Jack rose to fame with portrayals of antiheros ranging from the demented, demonic, or despicable to characters who were somehow lovable in spite of their eccentricities. He won three Oscars and seven Golden Globes, but beyond the accolades is a man who remains largely unknowable. His bad boy image masks a complicated past, a complex present, half a dozen children, and an art collection, real estate, and business empire that have made him one of the world's wealthiest entertainers. In many ways, Jack's story mirrors that of Hollywood. For 50 years, from J. J. Gittes to the Joker; Easy Rider to Five Easy Pieces; The Shining, Terms of Endearment, and A Few Good Men to As Good As It Gets and The Departed, his life and career reflect the shifting fortunes of an industry that set the cultural pace for America, and then the world. Here's how it all happened, year by year, film by film, triumph and trauma, over Five Easy Decades.Dennis McDougal (Los Angeles, CA) covers film for the New York Times. From 1982 through 1993, he was a Los Angeles Times staff writer, where he won more than 40 awards for his hard-nosed coverage of the entertainment industry. He is the bestselling author of The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood (0-306-81050-6) and Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty (0-306-81161-8).

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Dennis McDougalwrites about Hollywood for theNew York Times. A former Los Angeles Times staff writer, he won more than forty awards for his hard-nosed coverage of the entertainment industry. He is the bestselling author of The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood and Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty.

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Starred Review.Taking on not just a legendary subject, but a legendarily private subject-refusing biographers and TV personalities, Nicholson prefers "the occasional magazine Q&A or quickie newspaper interview"-author and New York Times film writer McDougal (Privileged Son) has turned out a model biography: exhaustive, full of action, and startlingly illuminating. Nicholson-flamboyant yet guarded, outrageous yet articulate, charming yet polarizing-has marched to his own drummer for 50 years, heading up a parade of celebrated films and famous women, eliciting strong opinions in just about everyone; as such, McDougal presents an engrossing showcase of big films and bigger personalities. Following a modest, fatherless New Jersey childhood, Nicholson set out on a California odyssey that would require stamina, guts and luck, as "eking out a living" in the early sixties gave way to the career-making premier of Easy Rider: " 'I had been around long enough to know while sitting in that audience, I had become a movie star.' " Los Angeles plays a starring role, giving Nicholson his wild lifestyle, a loyal, eclectic roster of friends and a long-time neighbor in Marlon Brando. Digging up as many roles offstage as on-hardheaded businessman, softhearted friend, master of rude rejoinders, fanatical sports fan and poetic philosopher-McDougal makes Nicholson's everyday life just as fascinating as his films, which also get considerable, thoughtful attention; in fact, McDougal's research is so deep and detailed, his extensive chapter notes could make a fine book of their own.

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