Word: nicholson
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...Jake" Gittes, the chain-smoking private detective made famous by Jack Nicholson in the 1974 classic China-town, is walking the streets of Los Angeles again, but not without haunts. As he tells himself repeatedly in the new film, The Two Jakes, the past is something every person must confront at one time or another. It is a tortuous process, Gittes realizes, which requires treading a very thin line. "I don't want to live in the past," he says, "I just don't want to lose...
Directed by Jack Nicholson...
That difficulty is reflected in the 16 years required to created The Two Jakes. Originally scheduled for release in the mid-80s, the film became mired in disagreements between three of four of Chinatown's creative forces. Producer Robert Evans, screen writer Robert Towne, and Nicholson. (Polanski, according to Nicholson, was not involved in the process, partly because of cost overruns). When The Two Jakes finally made it to production, Nicholson had assumed the directing responsibilites. In addition, the freshman director took it upon himself to rewrite parts of the script as he went along...
...that the plot is complicated is a severe understatment. Refusing to cater to the audience's lowest common denominator, The Two Jakes forces the viewer to pay very close attention while the plot unfolds onscreen. Towne returns to his former scripting glory (with a little bit of help from Nicholson) after sinking to an all-time low with the recently released Days of Thunder. The Two Jakes is a great detective story, with all the clues, (intelligent) action, and philosophical narrative voice overs that accompanies the best in the genre. But more than that, the film is about persons...
Advertisements usually rely on persuasion rather than outright pleading. Not this summer's TV campaign starring Martin Shugrue Jr., the macho court- appointed trustee of bankrupt Eastern Air Lines. In the latest spot Shugrue, an intense Jack Nicholson look-alike, touts the airline's virtues and exhorts would-be passengers, "We're there...