Nicholson: A Biography

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THE GROUNDBREAKING NEW BIOGRAPHY OF A MAN WITH ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC AND FASCINATING CAREERS-AND LIVES-IN HOLLYWOOD. The definitive biography of a man with one of the most iconic and fascinating careers-and lives-in Hollywood. Forsixdecades, JackNicholsonhas been part of film history. With three Oscar wins and twelve nominations to his credit and legendary roles in films like Easy Rider,Five Easy Pieces, Terms of Endearment, The Shining, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Nicholsoncreated original, memorable characters like no other actor of his generation.And his offscreen life has been no less of an adventure-Nicholsonhas always been at the center of the Hollywood elite and has courted some of the most famous and beautiful women in the world. Relying on years of extensive research and interviews with insiders who know Nicholsonbest, acclaimed biographer Marc Eliot sheds light onNicholson's life on and off the screen.FromNicholson's working class childhood in New Jersey, where family secrets threatened to tear his family apart, to raucous nights on the town with Warren Beatty and tumultuous relationships with starlets like Michelle Phillips, Anjelica Huston, and Lara Flynn Boyle, to movie sets working with such legendary directors and costars as Dennis Hopper, Stanley Kubrick, and Meryl Streep, Eliot paints a sweeping picture of the breadth ofNicholson'sdecades-longcareer in film and an intimate portrait of the real man. Both a comprehensive tribute to a film legend and an entertaining look at a truly remarkable life, Nicholson is a compulsively readable biography of an iconic Hollywood star.

Marc Eliot is the internationally published, New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books on popular culture, among them highly acclaimed biographies of Cary Grant, James Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Phil Ochs and Steve McQueen. He writes for a number of publications and frequently speaks about film to universities, film groups and on radio and television.

"Unless Nicholson writes his own...this might be as good as we get." -People