One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie)

Roger Ebert career highlights, on page and screen

2013-04-04 16:30:00

Roger Ebert's passing Thursday at age 70 leaves behind a staggering body of work: He reviewed as many as 285 movies a year, spent decades as a fixture on TV and published 17 books. Following are but a few highlights from his prolific career. Ebert began...

Critic's Pick: Jack Nicholson's trifecta of discontent

2013-03-06 16:34:00

Feeling a little rebellious? Frustrated with authority? You can't do much better than to spend Saturday night picking fights with Jack Nicholson at the Egyptian Theatre. It's a trifecta of discontent that begins with 1969's "Easy Rider," then 1970's "Five...

Sterling Lord shares insight, memories

2013-02-01 07:05:00

Without Sterling Lord, there would be no Jack Kerouac — not Kerouac as we know him, anyway, the writer who introduced the Beat Generation. Lord was a former magazine editor and fledgling literary agent working in a basement apartment in New York...

Milos Forman to receive Directors Guild's highest tribute

2012-11-28 12:17:00

Milos Forman, 80, will receive the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Direction at the 65th annual DGA Awards on Feb. 2. The ceremony will be held at Hollywood & Highland's Ray Dolby...

Buyer takes a shining to Jack Nicholson home

2011-10-09 00:00:00

A-list actor Jack Nicholson has sold his longtime retreat in Malibu for $3.5 million, the Multiple Listing Service shows. The 28-acre property came on the market in February at $4.25 million. Zoned for equestrian use, the spread includes a ranch-style...

Patt Morrison Asks: Hollywood's pol, Chris Dodd

2012-02-25 00:00:00

Hollywood loves comeback stories. Will SOPA/PIPA be one of them? The anti-piracy bills that were working their way through Congress with Hollywood's blessing got tanked by a massive online campaign — petitions, website blackouts, even T-shirts. From...

'Shockaholic' review: Carrie Fisher's tales electrify

2011-12-24 00:00:00

Carrie Fisher has done an excellent job of reinventing herself as ... Carrie Fisher, evolving from ingenue actress and geek pinup to salty, tell-it-like-it-is writer and humorist. And as Just Carrie Fisher she has a lot to say, mostly about her odd but...

Signed 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' book sells for $9,000

2011-10-12 16:34:21

Jack Nicholson property in Malibu is for sale

2011-04-04 16:17:00

A Malibu property owned by actor Jack Nicholson is on the market at $4.25 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service. The 70-acre site includes a ranch-style main house, a caretaker home, a tennis court, a cabana, a putting green, a swimming pool...

'Shutter Island' graphic novel by Dennis Lehane

2010-01-12 00:00:00

Back in 1941, a Russian immigrant named Albert Lewis Kanter had (literally) a novel idea for the fledgling medium of the American comic book -- he launched Classics Illustrated, a series that lived up to its name by converting "Ivanhoe," "Jane Eyre," "The...

The California Cook: Mighty, mighty bread crumbs

2011-05-19 00:00:00

I've just discovered the magic of fresh bread crumbs. You might say it's about time, after 30 years of cooking. But I would remind you that I said the "magic" of fresh bread crumbs, not the "utility." Everyone knows about using bread crumbs for coating a...

Saturday's Highlights: 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' on TCM

2011-02-25 21:35:07

Porochista Khakpour ("Sons and Other Flammable Objects") picks Victor LaValle's "The Devil in Silver" (Spiegel & Grau) LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner: a bizarre, fantastical, hellish and hilarious psychiatric-ward horror novel of sorts that makes "One Flew

2012-11-30 16:05:39

Sister Jude totally equals Nurse Ratched at this insane asylum, though at least Sister Jude owns her evilness a bit. Nurse Ratched's sugar-wouldn't-melt-in-my-mouth schtick was even scarier than Sister Jude just being twisted.

2012-10-17 20:02:00

#11 -- Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" -- #11

2012-08-21 17:02:30