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The girliest magazine in the world), "Senator John McCain said he most identified with Kiefer Sutherland, who portrays Jack Bauer on 24, as opposed to Jack Nicholson or Bob Dylan.". This is funnier than anything that Saturday Night Live can dream up. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
David Thewlis on The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Sep 14, 2008
I met Spielberg, I met Jack Nicholson, I met the Coen brothers, I met Robert Altman, Thewlis says. I met a ton of people. (Times Online)
Shock treatment successful for many patients Sep 13, 2008
They never thrashed, as did Jack Nicholson enduring electroconvulsive therapy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest the worst PR for ECT in its many decades. When an ECT jolt is given today, anesthesia and muscle paralyzing drugs precede it. (Columbus Telegram, NE)
L.A. golf courses brace for USC-Ohio State clash Sep 12, 2008
In an area where Dodgers fans are notorious for leaving before the seventh innings (even post Manny Ramirez), where Lakers fans are rarely in their seats before the start of the second quarter (unless it's a national TV game and Jack Nicholson wants some face time) and where the NFL doesn't even bother to have a franchise, University of Southern California fans show up early and stay late. At least they do now, after Pete Carroll, Matt Leniart and Reggie Bush turned the Trojans into the hottest... (MSNBC -- Travel)
Around the world on my 'Bucket List' Sep 10, 2008
She and others have taken cues from "The Bucket List," a 2007 movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as terminally ill cancer patients who set off to achieve their lists of dreams before they die. These iReporters are writing down places they want to go and are starting to plan how to get there. (CNN -- Travel)
Why We Love Geezer Buddy Movies So Much Sep 10, 2008
The old-buddy movie adds a second layer of incongruity by playing off pat cultural expectations of the elderlyspecifically, all the things they supposedly don't do: break-dance (Don Ameche in Cocoon), sky-dive (Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in The Bucket List), fornicate (various). The problem, though, is that refuting these assumptions for laughs can collapse into isn't-Pops-the-cutest mawkishness. (Slate)
Fannie, Freddie, Obama, McCain Sep 9, 2008
In the movie The Departed Jack Nicholson sees two priest at lunch. He says: Have a good lunch you coc. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Local girl's film is a shore thing Sep 8, 2008
He even managed to get a snap with the notoriously camera-shy Jack Nicholson in Los Angeles, almost a decade after the actor declined to pose with him in Sydney because he had left his sunglasses on the golf course. Celeb-chasing does not always reap rewards, however, as Simpkin discovered when he approached Jerry Lewis with an original poster from The Nutty Professor. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Jackets have grit, potential Sep 7, 2008
Staying in Southie, keeping an eye out for Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson. So many movies have been shot in Boston lately that the aforementioned Pete Thamel of The Times, who actually lives in South Boston, says people are always pointing out local bars and saying, That s where they shot that scene from The Departed, or Good Will Hunting, or Gone Baby Gone. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
MTV awards showcase art of the music video Sep 4, 2008
"Who goes to the Oscars? Big Hollywood stars like Jack Nicholson, yes, but you don't get those MTV moments. We're still talking about the Tommy Lee and Kid Rock fight, Britney's last performance -- pretty much every Britney performance.". "That's all about our ability to put the right people in the right place together and allow them the freedom to be themselves," Sirulnick said. (Los Angeles Times)
Tough as nails, but sweet inside Sep 3, 2008
Her point made, the actress - who has worked alongside the likes of Jack Nicholson, Audrey Hepburn and Jack Lemmon - says she is thrilled to be honoured with the 2008 Best Buddies Leadership Award at its 14th annual charitable gala and concert in Toronto on Sept. 10. And she figures that the national charity - which is dedicated to fostering friendships between students and individuals with intellectual disabilities - chose her because "I'm out in the open about some of my spiritual... (Globe and Mail)
Typical Home Bandwidth Usage? Sep 1, 2008
News for nerds, stuff that matters. Typical Home Bandwidth Usage. (Slashdot)
Parade, stars, weirdness at DragonCon Aug 29, 2008
Essential work: His performance in Head, a psychedelic Monkees movie co-written by Jack Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson. Other stuff: Was the star of the late- 50s TV series Circus Boy, and was a DJ on WCBS FM, an oldies station in New York. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Mini movie reviews Aug 29, 2008
Ledger wrested the role from previous performers Cesar Romero and Jack Nicholson and reinvented it completely. Yes, he s funny, wringing laughs from both clever one-liners and maniacally grand schemes. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Wish-list author's death fuels Web 'bucket lists' Aug 29, 2008
The concept hit the big screen this year when Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman played two terminally ill men fulfilling a wish-list in the Hollywood movie "The Bucket List.". It also sparked a wide variety of other lists of must-dos before you die, such as the travel book "1,000 Places to See Before You Die," the book "1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" as well as the essential movie, books and food lists. (MSNBC -- Technology)
The rise of before you die-ism Aug 28, 2008
" Orders It's not just the book industry that has felt the force of this phenomenon. The Guardian newspaper recently published 1,000 Films to See Before You Die and Channel 4 broadcast a similar format with the less-ambitious 50 films. The concept was dramatised on screen this year when Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman played two terminally-ill men fulfilling a wish-list, in the film The Bucket List. Freeman ticked off about half of his list But how sincere are these edicts for everyone to drop... (BBC News -- UK)
Tumbling, bumbling, stumbling Aug 28, 2008
Wearing a Yankees cap, actor Jack Nicholson sat behind home plate. Boston manager Terry Francona said Mark Kotsay, just acquired from Atlanta, will start in right field Thursday. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Labor Day weekend Aug 28, 2008
Bush is just one of a long list of the comic's side-splitting impressions, which include John Madden, Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson, Bill Clinton and Dr. Phil McGraw. With an upcoming election, you can bet that Caliendo is perfecting his John McCain and Barack Obama already. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
HEALTH BLOG: Digging into the latest cancer studies Aug 28, 2008
I saw on DVD over the weekend, and I was struck by how forthright Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman's doctor was about their terminal cancer. If you were dying of cancer, would you want your doctor to be that upfront with you. (USA Today -- Money)
Do you believe...in casting Cher as Catwoman? Aug 26, 2008 Normal guy, blow-dried medium Aug 15, 2008 Starz Entertainment's Weekly Hot Items List August 25-31 Aug 15, 2008 Is all this plastic surgery about demons within? Aug 12, 2008 From 98 Degrees to 'Hottest Girl' Aug 11, 2008 A Penny for his thoughts Aug 10, 2008 New Releases Aug 10, 2008 Movie Trailers Aug 8, 2008 Birth and Evolution of the Joker Ch... Aug 7, 2008 Oscars in the wings: Nerves, tears and cheers just offstage Aug 6, 2008 Bottle Shock Aug 6, 2008 The Hollywood heart attack myth: Misleading scenes put lives at risk Aug 6, 2008 Dreamgirls Wins Big at the Golden Globes Aug 6, 2008 No, Domo Arigato, Mr. Robocaller Aug 5, 2008 Profile: Morgan Freeman Aug 5, 2008 Buy your own T.I.E. fighter - a bargain at just 177,000 Aug 5, 2008 Winnebago employees anticipated job cuts Aug 2, 2008 Where former stars go for another 15 seconds Jul 29, 2008 Killer attitude Jul 27, 2008 AFI Names Top Ten Courtroom Dramas ... Jul 27, 2008 Just ‘Joking’ folks Jul 27, 2008 AFI Names Top Ten Mystery Films of ... Jul 26, 2008 Films That Were Not Oscar Nominated Jul 26, 2008 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired offers first-rate reportage Jul 26, 2008 Maggie Gyllenhaal Ready To Vote Heath Ledger For Oscar Jul 24, 2008 Millions needed to fix Hollywood's "health hazard" Walk of Fame Jul 24, 2008 Defunct Dodd Campaign Continues To Pull In Money Jul 24, 2008 Critic's Corner Wednesday Jul 23, 2008 Here comes Jordin Sparks Jul 22, 2008 Ledger, 'Dark Knight' full of surprises Jul 22, 2008 Dark Knight makes light work of box office Jul 22, 2008 Batman breaks records Jul 22, 2008 Heath Ledger sets cash record in last performance Jul 21, 2008 Dark Knight shatters box-office record Jul 21, 2008 The Joker's on to us Jul 21, 2008 The bat and a flap over that man in a hat Jul 21, 2008 Darkness rules for Batman fans in Vancouver Jul 21, 2008 Movie school Jul 21, 2008 Heath or Jack?? Jul 21, 2008 A Film Analysis of The Dark Knight Jul 20, 2008 A monster's ball Jul 19, 2008 'The Dark Knight' is no joke Jul 19, 2008 The Dark Knight Movie Review Jul 19, 2008 The face of evil Jul 19, 2008 The Dark Knight Jul 18, 2008 Fans stay up all 'Knight' for Batman movie Jul 18, 2008 Oscars in the wings: Nerves, tears and cheers just offstage Jul 18, 2008 * [FILM REVIEW] Deep into the 'Knight' Jul 18, 2008 The dark knight of the soul Jul 18, 2008 No laughing matter Jul 18, 2008 The criminal element Jul 18, 2008 Mini Movie Reviews Jul 18, 2008 Review: All Should Hail To 'The Dark Knight' Jul 18, 2008 Dreamgirls Wins Big at the Golden Globes Jul 18, 2008 Could Helen Mirren's bikini start a revolution? Jul 17, 2008 A darker 'Knight' Jul 17, 2008 Batman's Archnemesis: The Joker Jul 17, 2008 Batman Returns, But Joker Has Last Laugh Jul 17, 2008 Review: A fast, furious, fascinating 'Batman' Jul 17, 2008 'Cuckoo's Nest' hospital to be demolished Jul 16, 2008 'So Proud of Our Boy' Jul 16, 2008 Review: The Dark Knight ups the ante Jul 16, 2008 5Top: Worst moments in musicals Jul 16, 2008 Heath steals the show Jul 16, 2008 Black carpet for Dark Knight debut Jul 15, 2008
That way, The Joker role could be recast with an older actor (possibly a Jack Nicholson return. and Cher would make sense as the brothel-running Catwoman. (Entertainment Weekly)
Movies at the Senior Center Aug 21, 2008
That's what two cancer ward roommates (Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman) decide when they get the bad news they will soon kick the bucket. The two compose a bucket list, things to do before they die, and head off for the around-the-world adventure of their lives. (Lebanon Express, OR)
Originally adapted from a novel by John Updike, the film starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon and Cher as three modern-day witches who run afoul of a satanic bounder, played by Jack Nicholson. ABC has commissioned a pilot script for the Witches remake and is currently casting for the three female leads. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
(Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening) -- 2:15 a.m. Alien 3 (Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance) -- 4:15 a.m. John Carpenter's Village of the Damned (Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski) -- 6 a.m. Mission to Mars (Tim Robbins, Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle) -- 8 a.m. The One (Jet Li, Carla Gugino, Delroy Lindo) -- 9:30 a.m. Deja Vu (Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Adam Goldberg) -- 11:40 a.m. Waterworld (Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn) -- 2 p.m.... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
In the 1989 movie Batman, Jack Nicholson's Joker tricks Gotham City by making its public figures look like him, with grotesque upturned mouths, bleached and oddly fattened faces ... For example, dead-but-for-the-burying Lara Flynn Boyle, who has long prided herself for a radical thin chic that actually worked, even if it made one wince, has made a fatso of her face as if to say: Jack Nicholson. (Globe and Mail)
In the movie, two terminally ill characters played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman create a to-do list before they kick the bucket, fanciful activities like sky diving, scaling the pyramids, and going on an African safari. At 27, Rounsaville isn't dying and he doesn't have much dough, so his list is a little less interesting. (Boston Globe)
In Updike's case there's just a long-forgotten version of his first Rabbit Angstrom novel, Rabbit, Run; a TV film bringing together 17 stories about the marriage of a New England family, Too Far to Go (a theatrical version was shown at Cannes but never released here); and The Witches of Eastwick, torn from its historic context and turned into a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. Elegy. (guardian.co.uk)
As Poirier sums up in bonus materials, this is a story of "these really highly educated people trying to make their way through the world - but they're just emotional idiots." Dennis Quaid channels a bit of Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets" in playing Lawrence Wetherhold, a widowed, pompously abrasive lit prof who's got a curmudgeonly clone in his teenage daughter, Vanessa (Ellen Page), and a polar opposite in his freeloading adopted brother, Chuck (Thomas Haden Church). When Lawrence... (Boston Globe)
2001 A Space Odyssey; brokeback mountain; Cool Hand Luke; Daddy's Little Girls; Diana Ossana; Director; eva mendes; Forrest Gump; Frank Pierson; Ghost Rider; Gray Matters; Heather Graham; Here's Johnny; Hollywood; Jack Nicholson; Julia Roberts; L A Confidential; Michael Douglas; Oprah Winfrey; Paul Newman; Peter Seaman; Pretty Woman; Richard Gere; sofia; Stanley Weiser; The Color Purple; The Godfather; The Number 23; The Shining; To Have and Have Not; Tom Cavanagh; Tom Hanks; Tyler Perry;... (Variety)
In 1989, Jack Nicholson set the bar when he brought the character to life in Tim Burton's Batman. The comedic performance was so good that it garnered Nicholson an Oscar nomination and top billing in the film's credits and promotional materials, even ahead of the film's title character played by Michael Keaton. (Suite101.com)
Jack Nicholson, who is notorious for prowling the backstage area over the years, made only a brief appearance before the show, walking through wearing his signature sunglasses and giving a quick nod to everyone as he passed. "Gents," he said to two security guards flanking the entrance to the stage. (Yahoo News -- Academy Awards)
The less said about Blood and Wine, in which Jack Nicholson plays a Miami wine dealer, the better. Now, along comes Bottle Shock, a ham-fisted dramedy opening today about the rise of the California wine industry. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Jack Nicholson in Something's Gotta Give ... But the stereotype persists in films ranging from Ocean's 13, where a double-crossed Elliott Gould was shown falling over and clutching his chest, to Jack Nicholson's character in Something's Gotta Give, who was rescued from his attack by the DianeKeaton heroine. (Daily Mail)
"I'm staring at Jack Nicholson!" marvels creator Shonda Rhimes ... 10:10 p.m. Beatty takes the stage and admits, "The truth is, I haven't made an awful lot of movies." (Especially lately) He playfully scolds Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson, who are still churning out hits while he's at home with Annette and the kids ... Director Clint Eastwood pays homage to Jack Nicholson, who had nothing to do with the film. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
(08-04) 19:55 PDT -- If Shaun Dakin has his way, you might never get a call from Jack Nicholson again ... Jack Nicholson - for Hillary Rodham Clinton. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
And there were droll moments as he teamed up with Jack Nicholson in 2008's The Bucket List, as the terminally ill pair went about fulfilling their wishes before it was too late. With his dulcet tones, Freeman has developed a reputation as a voice-over artist, famously lending himself to hit documentary March of The Penguins. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Charlton Heston's stone tablets from The Ten Commandments fetched $60,000 (30,492), while the axe used by Jack Nicholson in The Shining had a closing bid of $25,000 (12,699). It was used to batter down a hotel door in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Jack Nicholson s character, a thrifty actuary in Omaha, Neb. tried to convince his wife that the Mini Winnie (a fictional Winnebago product) would meet their needs. (Charles City Press, IO)
And isn't that Marya Small, now Mews Small, who played the hooker Jack Nicholson brings on the boat in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. She had a series of colour stills of her scenes for sale. (Globe and Mail)
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) "The Shining" (Stanley Kubrick, 1980). That Jack Torrance is relatively normal in the beginning makes it all the more disconcerting watching the American everyman (with a few issues -- he's a recovering alcoholic with a few anger management problems) being driven into insanity by malevolent spirits in the remote hotel he has taken his wife and son to. (CNN -- International)
AFI Names Top Ten Courtroom Dramas of All Time: To Kill a Mockingbird is the Top Choice of American Film Institute. AFI Names Top Ten Courtroom Dramas of All Time. (Suite101.com)
But the passion for the Joker is one that s belonged to her since she drew Batman figures as a child and grew up watching Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson, along with all the other Batman films. However, she knows her favorite production. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Stars Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston. Director Roman Polanski. (Suite101.com)
Ranked #84 overall, the movie did garner writing nominations for Fonda, Hooper, and Terry Sothern and Jack Nicholson s first acting nomination for his role as an alcoholic lawyer. Other Films Not Nominated for Oscars. (Suite101.com)
The mercurial movie director, then in his mid-40s, had been convicted of having unlawful sexual intercourse a year earlier with a minor at the Hollywood mansion of actor Jack Nicholson, who wasn't home at the time. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a documentary by Marina Zenovich that is also a first-rate work of reportage, makes a forceful case that the whole truth of the matter was never heard in court and Polanski was more sinned against than sinning. (Toronto Star)
" When beloved Spencer Tracy passed away in 1967 after giving a dynamic, heartfelt performance in best picture nominee "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," he was widely expected to win best actor, but lost to Rod Steiger ("In the Heat of the Night"). But things were different for Finch, who died from a heart attack just months before the Oscar cast whereas Ledger will be dead for a year by the next awards ceremony. In "The Dark Knight," Ledger delivered his last complete film role before dying at... (eFluxMedia)
Other famous names on the walkway include Bob Hope, Jack Nicholson, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson and Kermit The Frog. The latest entertainers to be honoured include Robert Downey Jr, Cameron Diaz and Sir Ben Kingsley. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
One $500 donation came from John J. Nicholson of Proteus Films better known as Jack Nicholson. Marilyn Alverio, who runs a Hartford consultant agency, Ethnic Marketing Solutions, said she just respected what Dodd was about, so she gave $100 in March. (FOX61, CT)
Even if you're not an Andy fan, you may want to see the novice actor playing the baby's father: Jack Nicholson. Nicholson's Cuckoo's Nest co-star Louise Fletcher pops up on Ion in an ER (10 ET/PT) episode from 2005, as a woman Abby suspects is being abused by her sister (Pat Carroll). (USA Today -- Life)
I didn t think anyone could out-do Jack Nicholson as the Joker but I do believe Heath did the job and did it well. By linny. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Bill, for all your bombast and criticism, you d think you were Adam West or Jack Nicholson s son ... Bill, for all your bombast and criticism, you d think you were Adam West or Jack Nicholson s son. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
In Burton's original Batman excursion, Jack Nicholson played the disfigured Joker as a variation on his "Jack thing", leeringly menacing, but with a wink-and-a-nod to the audience. Heath Ledger's Joker is darker and more devoted to mayhem. (The Age, Australia)
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The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Heath Ledger as The Joker in the new Batman film The Dark Knight. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Age: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Melbourne's leading newspaper. The buzz around Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight has given the film a record-breaking opening weekend. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
") - and that was about as interesting as going to a cheap circus. Later, in the '80s, the Joker storylines got so scary that you didn't want to sleep in the same room with your comic books, even if you were 23. All of the Joker's antics - where does he get purple-and-green-striped helicopters? - never trumped his infamous calling card, a joker from the deck, left on corpses - corpses with frozen smiles. Batman's villains all work from a starting point of derangement or misplaced rage, but... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
But will it sell more tickets than Batman, the 1989 movie in which Michael Keaton was the dark knight and Jack Nicholson the Joker. That made $13. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Where Jack Nicholson playing the joker in 1989's Batman was as much about the actor as the joker, it's Heath Ledger, who's reputed to lose himself in the part, who may be so seductive to Batman fans. The mystique around Ledger and his untimely death doesn't hurt, either. (Canada.com)
The Bucket List: The most recent Life Movie Ive watched, the film was directed by Rob Reiner and starred Morgan Freeman and the inimitable Jack Nicholson. As the films title suggests, its about a list that two terminally ill men make, of things to do before kicking the bucket. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
But what about Jack Nicholson ... "This one was way more psychotic. Jack Nicholson was sort of tongue-in-cheek." ... "Heath Ledger. He definitely took the crown from whats-his-name, uh Jack Nicholson.". (W-USA News, DC)
Within the first five minutes of the film, the audience is quick to ascertain that this is not the same Joker as Jack Nicholson undertook only 19 years earlier in Tim Burton s Batman. The Joker is not played for laughs by the late Ledger but rather as a character who believes in tipping the scales of structure and balance. (Suite101.com)
And this particular role, previously essayed by Caesar Romero (who, incidentally, wore his Joker makeup over his trademark seducer's moustache) and by indefatigable mugger Jack Nicholson, does have about it the whiff of a "turn" rather than a serious piece of acting. But Ledger is riveting to watch, and his minutely conceived and furiously executed Joker - scar-faced, maniacal, motiveless, unnerving - makes you think of his taciturn cowpoke of Brokeback Mountain, but turned violently inside out,... (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Ledger wrested the role from previous performers Cesar Romero and Jack Nicholson and reinvented it completely. PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Was the performance Oscar worthyno, but do I still think Jack Nicholson is the best Joker of all time. No. (MoviesOnline)
Long before filming began, The Dark Knight director, Christopher Nolan, knew that Ledger's Joker would be compared to the more flamboyant and cartoonish Joker famously portrayed by Jack Nicholson in 1989's Batman. Nolan says he sought out Ledger for the role because the actor's previous work, including his Oscar-nominated turn as a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, showed he was unafraid to take on an iconic role and make it his own. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The difficulty only scares children which was the original, sophisticated point of Jack Nicholson s 89 Joker. Nicholson s disfigurement abstracted psychosis, being sufficiently hideous without confusing our sympathy. (New York Press)
Other members of the cast praised Ledger for redefining the character brought to life in the past by Mark Hamill ("Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker") and Jack Nicholson ("Batman"). Aaron Eckhart, who plays Dent, said it was tragic that Ledger wasn't around to celebrate his achievement. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NBA)
Jack Nicholson, who is notorious for prowling the backstage area over the years, made only a brief appearance before the show, walking through wearing his signature sunglasses and giving a quick nod to everyone as he passed. "Gents," he said to two security guards flanking the entrance to the stage. (Yahoo News -- Academy Awards)
And the late Ledger played him to the max, as a far more demented and terrifying force than Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman or Cesar Romero on the campy 1960s TV show did. "We decided The Joker would have no origin story or arc to his character," says Nolan, who wrote Dark Knight with his brother Jonathan and David Goyer. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Like Jack Nicholson, Ledger doesn t look much like the classic comic book Joker. Unlike Nicholson, Ledger is given a script that perfectly taps into the character s time-honored role. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
With all due respect to the enjoyable camp buffoonery of past Jokers like Cesar Romero and Jack Nicholson, Ledger makes them look like -- well, clowns. The pic shrewdly positions the Joker as the superhero-movie equivalent of a modern terrorist (one of several post-9/11 signifiers), who threatens to target Gotham civilians until Batman reveals his identity. (Variety)
Directed by Tim Burton and featuring the Academy Award-winning Goth-Future design of Anton Furst, Batman starred Michael Keaton opposite Jack Nicholson's wildly manic performance as the Joker ... Jack Nicholson (The Joker). (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
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Defying naysayers, Ledger has definitely had the last laugh with this, his final completed movie role, by taking on a character made iconic by Jack Nicholson and reinventing it in a way that will likely never be surpassed. While Ledger and Bale provide for the sort of looming Dr. Hannibal Lecter-Clarice Starling psychological presence throughout the film, Nolan (who co-wrote the story with David Goyer, and script with his brother, Jonathan) still manages to strike a delicate balance to ensure... (Click2Houston, TX)
"I'm staring at Jack Nicholson!" marvels creator Shonda Rhimes ... 10:10 p.m. Beatty takes the stage and admits, "The truth is, I haven't made an awful lot of movies." (Especially lately) He playfully scolds Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson, who are still churning out hits while he's at home with Annette and the kids ... Director Clint Eastwood pays homage to Jack Nicholson, who had nothing to do with the film. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
Actresses in their fifties and sixties often complain about being offered frumpy "character" parts while their male contemporaries - wrinkly old Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson, for instance - are vain enough to expect to go on playing romantic leads well into their seventies. But Mirren positively relished the opportunity to play a woman 20 years older than herself, confident that she could transform herself into the Queen. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Yet even when he's done up in drag as a nurse - a freakish, hilarious scene - this Joker never grandstands like Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman" or Cesar Romero on the old TV show. Instead, he mutters and natters with bent, subversive intelligence. (Boston Globe)
The Joker Onscreen: Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger ... The Joker has been most notably played by Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, and Heath Ledger, who all masterfully bring to life the squealing, bipolar villain. (Suite101.com)
With all due respect to Jack Nicholson, threatening to carve a smile into someone's face while giggling like a maniac is far sicker than cackling beside a vat of green goo. Related. (ABC News)
Ledger, who died in January at the age of 28, creates in the Joker a scary, cockeyed demeanor far deeper and more disturbing than the cartoon psycho of Jack Nicholson in 1989's Batman. His visage is a raucous nightmare black eye shadow, red lipstick, white pancake makeup, stringy hair, tongue darting like a cobra's, face pocked by gashes inflicted by a tortuous father. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Douglas, Jack Nicholson (who played the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy) and Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched) were regulars at the hospital during shooting. Milos Forman, the director, lived for six weeks at the institution and had his actors study real patients, according to a 1975 account in Rolling Stone magazine. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
After the screening at the IMAX theater in Lincoln Square, the Ledgers gave me this statement: "'The Dark Knight' is everything we hoped it would be and more. Heath loved the experience of creating this character and working on the film. We are so proud of our boy. They should be. As you ve probably read elsewhere by now, Heath gives the performance of a lifetime in Chris Nolan s second Batman film as the Joker. He s a much different Joker, though, than anything you ve seen before in the world... (Fox News)
Nothing that Jack Nicholson, much less Cesar Romero, created even comes close. And its a loss for us all that this film marks his final completed performance. (MSNBC -- News)
There was this wacky trend back in the day where people who made musicals decided that it didnt matter anymore if anyone in the cast could sing (a legacy that eventually brought audiences Albert Finney in Scrooge, Lucille Ball in Mame, Peter Finch in Lost Horizon and Jack Nicholson in Tommy). Not just needs-a-little-sweetening-in-the-mix bad singing. (MSNBC -- News)
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"Ambitious, explosive set pieces share screen time with meaty debates about good vs evil and the nature of - and need for - a hero," says Lemire, adding that "there's nothing cartoony about [Ledger's] Joker. Ledger wrested the role from previous performers Cesar Romero and Jack Nicholson and reinvented it completely.". Finally, Peter Travers in Rolling Stone reaches for the superlatives, rating the movie 3. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
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