From Barnes & Noble"With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and sixty." Whatever he's wearing, Jack Nicholson ranks as a bona fide Hollywood hero and antihero combined, famed as much for his off-screen candor ("I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman") as for his Oscar honors (12 nominations and three Academy Awards). With its stories of its subject 50-year film career and offstage romps, Marc Eliot's Nicholson is as entertaining as any biopic. A biography that will please both film historians and celebrity tell-all fans.
Library Journal? 12/01/2013
Celebrity watchers will not be disappointed by this engrossing biography of Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson. Eliot, who has written more than a dozen books on popular culture, including biographies of Cary Grant, James Stewart, and Clint Eastwood, expertly covers Nicholson's early life, his collaboration with B movie director Roger Corman, and his breakout performance in Easy Rider, followed by stardom in 40-plus films, such as Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, Chinatown, and The Departed.
