Jack Nicholson

Monsters director Gareth Edwards and producer Graham King at EIFF

Edinburgh International Film Festival Blog

20 Jun 2010

Saturday 19 June The days, as Calvin & Hobbes astutely observed, are just packed. Saturday began with two great things: the first was Toy Story 3, which was possibly the best threequel I’ve ever seen (I’m meeting its two chief animators later today…

Julie and Julia

3 Sep 2009

(12A) 123min Nora Ephron’s love affair with cookery initially surfaced in Mike Nichols’ 1986 comedy Heartburn, with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson starring in Ephron’s adaptation of her recipe book of the same name. Now Ephron and Streep have…

Shadow dad Jack Nicholson

Celebrity Gossip

30 May 2010

Jack Nicholson's daughter used to consider him as a "shadow" hanging over her. Jennifer Nicholson - the daughter of Jack and actress Sandra Knight - admits she had a tough time as a child growing up in Los Angeles because of her father's fame. She…

Jack Nicholson's raccoon relief

Celebrity Gossip

7 Mar 2010

Jack Nicholson made his friends urinate in his garden. The Oscar-winning actor was showing a group of male pals around his Hollywood Hills home when he asked them to make sure they relieve themselves outside - to stop wild racoons coming too close to…

Jack Nicholson plans sky burial

Celebrity Gossip

8 Feb 2010

Jack Nicholson is considering being picked to death by vultures when he dies. The 72-year-old actor has become fascinated with the traditional sky burials carried out by some Native Americans which involve the deceased's body being hung from a tree…

Film Book round up

25 Jun 2009

Former stand-up comedian Robert Sellers hops across the pond to detail wild and fast times of Hollywood’s original bad boys with Bad Boy Drive (Preface) ●●●. Following on from his previous opus Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard…

EIFF 2009 - Roger Corman

11 Jun 2009

The Hollywood legend Roger Corman is guest of honour at the 63rd EIFF, which is this year hosting a very welcome retrospective dedicated to the man they rightly call the king of the Bs. Given the 83-year-old auteur has written, directed and/or produced…

Retired womaniser Jack Nicholson

Celebrity Gossip

15 Oct 2008

Jack Nicholson says he is too old to seduce women. The 71-year-old actor - who is notorious for his womanising ways - believes he has reached an age where it "doesn't look right" approaching young women in public. He told Britain's The Sun…

The Bucket List

14 Feb 2008

COMEDY/ADVENTURE (12A) 96min After four decades as one of cinema’s most personable superstars, Jack Nicholson deserves the extended curtain call he gets in The Bucket List, even if it is sentimental, mawkish and manipulative. Ideally cast as filthy…

Jack Nicholson's threesome pill

Celebrity Gossip

5 Feb 2008

Jack Nicholson has to take Viagra to have threesomes. The 70-year-old actor - who boasts he has slept with over 2,000 women - confessed he needs help in the bedroom when he is pleasuring more than one woman. He said: "I like to date a nice range…