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2 days ago · [31] In 1974, Nicholson starred in Roman Polanski's noir thriller Chinatown, and was again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Jake Gittes, a private detective. The film co-starred Faye Dunaway and John Huston, and included a cameo role with Polanski.
2 days ago · The Man with the Golden Gun. Source: Courtesy of United Artists. It might be surprising to find out that this classic James Bond blockbuster is turning 50 years old this year. That’s right, the movie was released in 1974, 50 years ago. In this daring adventure, international super spy James Bond is the target of the world’s most expensive ...
5 days ago · Harry Anderson played Harry the Hat on six episodes of "Cheers." The first three were all during the first season. Then he had one appearance each during seasons two, six, and eleven. His character was also known as Harry Gittes. In the episode, "Pick a Con...
5 days ago · Jack Nicholson returned as gumshoe J.J. "Jake" Gittes in "The Two Jakes," also stepping in for ... In the wake of the success of films based on "The Lord of the Rings" and the "Harry Potter ...
5 days ago · About Autoextremist. "From Day One, the real essence of Autoextremist.com was the fact that I said what others were merely thinking, or would only discuss in 'deep background' and in 'off-the-record' conversations. It was never a 'touchy-feely' publication that coddled its readers and genuflected at the feet of the car companies.
1 day ago · Richard Brody of The New Yorker observed that for 2017, "the most important event in the world of movies was the revelation, in The New York Times and The New Yorker, of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, and the resulting liberation of the long-stifled voices of the people who had been abused by him or other powerful figures in the movie business, and, for that matter, in other arts and ...
3 days ago · I thought that this was the least successful of the five books about cinema by David Thomson that I have read. Probably because he mixed fiction with fact in his eighty five very short potted histories of some of the most iconic characters of the silver screen.
