Jack Nicholson: Last News

Louise Fletcher, the Oscar-winning actress known for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, has died aged 88. Fletcher's agent said she died at her home in France. The actress set a new standard for screen villains when she played opposite Jack Nicholson in the 1975 movie, for which she would win the Academy Award for best actress, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe.

Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88.Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by family at her home in Montdurausse, France, her agent David Shaul told The Associated Press on Friday. No cause was given.After putting her career on hold for years to raise her children, Fletcher was in her early 40s and little known when chosen for the role opposite Jack Nicholson in the 1975 film by director Milos Forman, who had admired her work the year before in director Robert Altman’s “Thieves Like Us.” At the time, she didn’t know that many other prominent stars, including Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn and Angela Lansbury, had turned it down.“I was the last person cast,” she recalled in a 2004 interview.

Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has died at the age of 88.The actress, who won an Oscar for her performance as the chillingly corrupt nurse, died on Friday September 23 at her home in Montdurausse, France from natural causes, her son Andrew Bick told The Hollywood Reporter.Born in July 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama as the second of four children to Deaf parents, her father, a reverend, founded more than 40 churches in the US state for people who are Deaf.Fletcher survived breast cancer twice in her life.Having begun her acting career in the late 1950s, appearing in TV series including Lawman and Maverick, the actress went on to star in the 1974 crime film Thieves Like Us, which helped bag her the role of Ratched in the 1975 adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.The film, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, stars Jack Nicholson as mental institution patient Randle McMurphy.The patients at the institution team up against the tyrannical Nurse Mildred Ratched, exerting her power over them by means including her own version of psychotherapy and antipsychotic drugs.Nurse Ratched is widely regarded as one of the greatest fictional villains of all time, having been played by Joan Tetzel on stage and by Sarah Paulson in the 2020 TV series about the character.When Fletcher accepted her Oscar for the role, she famously used sign language to thank her parents in her speech, choking up as she expressed how much they meant to her.She also joked with the audience that ‘it looks like you all hated me so much that you’ve given me this award for it’, before adding: ‘I’ve loved being hated by you.’Following One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Fletched went on to play Dr Gene Tuskin in the sequel to The

Oscar winner Louise Fletcher has died at the age of 88.The actress' family revealed to Deadline that Fletcher passed away peacefully at her home in Montdurausse, France but did not disclose a cause of death.She famously played Nurse Ratched in the Miloš Forman-directed 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which also starred Jack Nicholson.The role earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 1976 ceremony, as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award. RIP: Oscar winner Louise Fletcher has died at the age of 88.

Carmel Dagan Staff Writer Louise Fletcher, who won the best actress Oscar for her indelible performance as Nurse Ratched in Milos Forman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died Friday at her home in France, according to a rep. She was 88. The classic film, based on Ken Kesey’s novel and exploring the repressive tendency of authority through the story of the patients and staff of a psych ward, won five Oscars in 1976, including best picture and best actor for Jack Nicholson. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was the first film in more than four decades to sweep the major categories of best picture, director, actor, actress and screenplay. It was nominated for an additional four Oscars and was also a substantial box office hit.

'80s celebrities would go to. Now, these two stars have amusingly speculated about whether or not their parents hooked up during this time. When two people are frequent members of one of the hottest spots in L.

thing for a woman to have, but in the cult classic film The Witches of Eastwick, award-winning actress Susan Sarandon dares to do it anyway—gossip be damned.Loosely based on John Updike’s novel of the same name, the 1987 film adaptation starring , Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jack Nicholson is basically Practical Magic, but kinky and subversive. Bored of their personal and professional lives, three single women—Jane, Alex, and Sukie respectively—accidentally summon their ideal man: a devilishly handsome stranger named Daryl.

Rob Lowe believes there’s a good chance that his father and Drew Barrymore’s mother hooked up in the ’80s at a popular Los Angeles nightclub.

Helen Hunt became "very boring" after finding fame. The 59-year-old actress became known around the world when she starred opposite Jack Nicholson in the 1997 romcom 'As Good As It Gets' and became "spooked" by the media intrusion that followed. She said: "There were a couple of years when I was a little spooked.

, it was the release of the acerbic romcom in 1997 – in which Hunt’s waitress and single mother forms a love-hate relationship with Jack Nicholson’s misanthropic author – that saw her career truly go supernova. As Good As It Gets brought overnight fame and a best actress Oscar. And yet, the decades since have seen if not a disappearance of that fame, at least an erosion, with few of her films bothering the box office or the Academy (although she did land a best supporting actress nomination for 2012 indie film The Sessions).

Kathy Hilton’s appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen took an awkward turn during a game of “Will Kathy Know Them?”

Clayton Davis Dustin Hoffman is one of the most versatile actors to ever grace the silver screen. Homegrown in Hollywood, the Los Angeles native has steered a career that has spanned over seven decades and brought forth some of the most vivid character creations in cinema history.To commemorate Dustin Hoffman’s 85th birthday, Variety ranks the 13 best performances of his career.Hoffman broke through as Benjamin Braddock, a 21-year-old who is seduced by an older married woman (Anne Bancroft) in Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate” (1967).

Bert Schneider, his partner in the independent production company Raybert, began kicking around the idea of a television show about a band “more interested in having fun than making a living”. Their Variety ad seeking “4 insane boys, [aged] 17-21” was answered by 437 hopefuls, and the successful applicants – Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork – were dispatched on a six-week improv course. The show’s goofily knowing house style did not arrive instantly – a pilot polled direly in testing.

Diane Kruger seduces Ray Nicholson into possibly murdering her husband in the first trailer for Neil LaBute's noir film Out of the Blue, which dropped Tuesday.At 46, the German-born beauty is 16 years older than Jack Nicholson's youngest child, but they aim to prove their chemistry as a couple embarking on a potentially dangerous love affair.In the Rhode Island-set erotic thriller - hitting US theaters/VOD on August 26 - Diane plays a scheming married mother called Marilyn Chambers who sets her sights on excon-turned-librarian Connor Bates (Jack). Familiar tale: Diane Kruger seduces Ray Nicholson into possibly murdering her husband in the first trailer for Neil LaBute's noir film Out of the Blue, which dropped Tuesday Cougar alert! At 46, the German-born beauty is 16 years older than Jack Nicholson's youngest child, but they aim to prove their chemistry as a couple embarking on a potentially dangerous love affairMarilyn asks naive Connor to help her find a book 'about murder' adding with a laugh: 'Preferably one where the husband dies.'The secretive, dissatisfied housewife later returns to the library to have a tryst with the reformed criminal, who was released from prison six months earlier due to an assault charge.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNo movie better captures the maverick spirit of Bob Rafelson and the impact he had on the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s than “Five Easy Pieces.” The film follows Jack Nicholson’s Bobby Dupea, a former piano prodigy who has turned his back on his privileged lifestyle to embrace the life of a blue collar drifter. Dupea’s rejection of his upbringing struck a cord with the counterculture and turned “Five Easy Pieces” into a critical and commercial sensation, making it a rare film that tapped into and reflected the zeitgeist.Rafelson, who also directed “The King of Marvin Gardens” and helped create “The Monkees” television series, died on July 23 at the age of 89.

has died. He was 89.Rafelson died on Saturday at his home in Aspen, Colorado, according to multiple  reports.

Bob Rafelson, the filmmaker who earned an Oscar nomination for his classic film Five Easy Pieces, has died at 89.The director died at his home in Aspen, Colorado, of natural causes, according to Deadline.In addition to his many collaborations with actor Jack Nicholson — who earned his own Academy Award nomination for Five Easy Pieces — Rafelson was known for co-creating The Monkees and their eponymous TV show with his producing partner Bert Schneider. Bob Rafelson, the Oscar-nominated director of Five Easy Pieces, has died at his Aspen, Colorado, home of natural causes at 89, according to Deadline; pictured in 1990Rafelson began his career in the 1950s as a story editor for televised plays, and by the early 1960s he had moved up to producing.By the middle of the decade, he met his future work partner Bert Schneider, and the two created BBS Productions, along with Schneider's friend Stephen Blauner.

Hollywood director Bob Rafelson has died aged 89.The Oscar-nominated director died at his home in Aspen on Saturday night surrounded by his family, said his wife, Gabrielle.Bob was responsible for co-creating the pop music band The Monkees, whose 60s hits included I'm A Believer and Last Train To Clarksville.READ MORE:Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey, 62, pleads not guilty to sexual assault chargesHe also became an influential figure in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s and won an Emmy for an outstanding comedy series in 1967.His impact on the new Hollywood era paved the way for many recognised industry legends, including Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg.The late director earned Oscar nominations for co-writing and producing Five Easy Pieces and then the 70s breakthrough hit The Last Picture Show. Fans have since taken to social media to share heartfelt tributes to the movie producer.One heartbroken fan tweeted: "R.I.P.

Micky Dolenz, the drummer of the mid-1960s formed-for-TV band The Monkees that became a pop music staple and Emmy winners to boot, took to Twitter on Sunday to remember Bob Rafelson, one of the co-creators of the musical show.

The Hollywood Reporter.Along with his late partner Bert Schneider, Rafelson co-created the classic NBC sitcom The Monkees, which premiered in 1966. The pair had been inspired by The Beatles‘ 1964 film A Hard Day’s Night, and they decided to develop a TV series about a fictional band.Rafelson served as a producer and later executive producer on the show, and also directed several episodes.

Bob Rafelson, a giant in the American independent film movement as a writer, director, and producer, and later a cocreator of The Monkees television show, has died at 89 of natural causes at his Aspen, Colorado home.