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Five Easy Decades : How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern
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Five Easy Decades : How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by McDougal, Dennis

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  • Title Five Easy Decades : How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times
  • Author McDougal, Dennis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited, John, Hoboken, New Jersey
  • Date 2008-12-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 16450170-6
  • ISBN 9780470422823 / 0470422823
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.4 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Praise for Five Easy Decades

"Dennis McDougal paces his excellent biography of Jack Nicholson, who recently became a septuagenarian, with the command of an experienced marathoner."
-- The Washington Post

"McDougal captures quite well the whirlwind of Nicholson's hardscrabble years." -- Los Angeles Times

"A model biography: exhaustive, full of action, and startlingly illuminating. . . . McDougal presents an engrossing showcase of big films and bigger personalities [and he] makes Nicholson's everyday life just as fascinating as his films. . . . McDougal's research is so deep and detailed, his extensive chapter notes could make a fine book of their own."
-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, nobody's fool. This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American culture and celebrity. I always read Mr. McDougal for pointers but worry that he will end up in a tin drum off the coast of New Jersey."
-- Patrick McGilligan, author of Jack's Life and

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light

Unconventional and unrestrained, Jack Nicholson is a famous and infamous pop-culture icon known for his romantic escapades, his hair-trigger temper, and his love affair with the L.A. Lakers. Written by a veteran journalist with access to Hollywood's heavy hitters, this candid, probing biography gives you a spellbinding, incisive look at the megawatt Method actor with the enigmatic Cheshire cat grin.

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About the author

Dennis McDougal writes about Hollywood for the New York Times. A former Los Angeles Times staff writer, he won more than forty awards for his hard-nosed coverage of the entertainment industry. He is the bestselling author of The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood and Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty.