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Book Review By Augusto Wong Campos
Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson by Patrick McGilligan

Jack Nicholson's life reveals here in full detail. The author made a research down to the bottom and we follow Jack since his parents' story to his stellar career: his work in exploitation films such as 'The little shop of horrors', his mainstream part in 'Easy rider' (1969), the period of greatness in the 70s with films such as 'Five Easy Pieces', 'Chinatown', 'The Last Detail' and 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest', and through all we find Jack's thoughts at every stage. Excerpts from interviews with magazines like Playboy are intimate and honest: his adiction to marijuana and later cocaine, his sexual apetites and what these women have to say about it.


Plot & Themes
job/profession:
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Story of entertainer? - Movie Drama Actor
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 4 ()
United States Yes
The US: - California
Century: - 1960's-1970's

Writing Style
Book makes you feel? - very happy
Graphic sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: -
Pictures/Illustrations? - A ton 16-20 B&W
How much dialogue in bio? - little dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 51%-75% of book
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