Blind Item! Lara Flynn Boyle is writing a book that will expose Jack Nicholson

We've known for quite some time that Jack Nicholson was abusive. This came out with regard to his relationship with Anjelica Huston.

He’s always been a fairly open scumbag so I fear to know what an expose could possibly contain

Nicholson is old and knocking at death’s door. What does this accomplish?

Remember when Boyle was on SNL and did a skit called, “Help me, I’m a starving actress!” in response to media stories about her weight? But the audience didn’t laugh because it was so obvious Boyle was indeed a starving actress.

Could it be SJP?

It’s Lara Flynn Boyle.

Perhaps she'll reveal that Leo is his son...

Nicholson is untouchable at this point. He's not going to live for very much longer, and his terrible behavior has been baked into his movie persona for decades. No one can pretend to be surprised when a person known as a Hollywood bad boy for half a century turns out to be a bad person.

Karen Lynn Gorney / John Travolta

[quote]He’s always been a fairly open scumbag so I fear to know what an expose could possibly contain

Polanski raped a 13-year-old girl at his house. Maybe Nicholson had a similar interests.

I thought LFB was living in a crack den at this point, or at least in an assisted living facility. She looks horrible in recent photos, you're telling me she still has the wherewithal to be writing a book?

Fuck whoever the scum is cashing in when he is at deaths door.

“What some people will do for money “ Before the devil knows your dead . Albert finney finds out from ancient pawnbroker that his son set up the heist where his wife was murdered.”

Maybe the blind item is BS

R11, Britney Spears just released a best-seller. If she can do it, then Lara Flynn Boyle can do the same and sit down and ramble her stories about Jack Nicholson, Twin Peaks and working on The Practice during the height of anorexia chic and have her ghostwriter turn it into something readable.

The audience for this book wont be interested. Having lots of sex in no longer shocking.

She isn’t likeable or appealing. She also needs to admit her eating disorder and not attribute it to “high metabolism” because nobody looks like that naturally.

R15, she'll totally admit to an eating disorder and blame it on David E. Kelley, even if it were more attributable to a major drug habit than anything else.

She was never A-List. Never.

He's practically dead.

It's CDAN, whose grade inflation inflation is worse than an overpriced safety school with endowment problems. By those standards, R17, "back in the day A list" kind of fits.

R8 Ha! Challenge accepted.

Does anyone really care and will anyone see this as anything but a moneygrab? She should have spoken out when he could have tried to defend himself

How is Nicholson a “mostly movie actor”? Isn’t he entirely a movie actor?

Lara Flynn Boyle was never A-list.

What about Jamie Lee Curtis?

Helena Bonham Carter/Johnny Depp

Mary Tyler Moore/Dick Van Dyke

What does her Hollywood status have to do with this? She dated Nicholson for years.

R10 you’re probably on to something. Nicholson also hung around the Playboy mansion in its seediest era. I’m sure there are some terrible stories.

America is so hypocritical. They drag Roman Polanski through the dirt for fifty years but go to church and worship a God who raped a girl at 14 every Sunday.

I just wonder why if Jack is as bad as his reputation would suggest, how was he able to come out of #MeToo unscathed. Dustin Hoffman got exposed like crazy and Warren Beatty even had a lawsuit thrown at him (not sure if it was ultimately proven to be true or not).

Love it! Good on her. Nicholson is a creepy fuck and most definitely not a talented actor. Same smart-ass grin bullshit in every movie. Just ugh.

She's using her sad last days to fuck up his sad last days.

LFB has to be near broke and is pretty unemployable at this point.

If she can make a few bucks off of being treated badly, good for her. I'm sure she's seen some really bad stuff.

As for Jack, I think on top of the sketchy things we already know there is some P. Diddy level shit that we don't.

Remember when he jumped out of a car and attacked another driver with a golf club?

Spoiled coke head narcissist actor in coke who abuses women because his mother lied to him and said she was his sister. His mother was a prostitute. He leaves the prosti out of his mythology. He had a lifetime of prostitutes and coke whores and opportunist actresses.

Maybe he was the one who recommended her plastic surgeon. I'd want my revenge too.

LFB at her height reminds me in retrospect of one of those high flying actresses in the 20s, known more for jumping into swimming pools with her clothes on than any particular talent. More than an extra, less than a real star.

Well she was more than an extra because she was a regular on a series. An extra is an extra. Stardom has nothing to do with your casting position. A lot of people get cast in shows and never become big stars.

She did become a big star in 90s tv though. She was cast on a hit show and everyone knew who she was. She was never the same after being with him.

R33 tell us more...

Thank you for taking that literally, R36, and very, very methodically spelling out your exciting thinking.

JACKIE DEAREST!!!!!!!

Let dear Lara get it out of her system.

Nicholson is old and sick. That's the usual time to go after a celebrity for the behavior the industry ignored and covered up for decades.

He's got the dementia, doesn't he?

R3 = Jack Nicholson

What does this accomplish?

Um, income where there may not be much rolling in these days? Unless she's got a deal covering pay-per--photographed looking freakish in a parking lot?

i'm sure he did fuck her over in many ways. from rumors i've read, it was pretty horrific, actually.

it's okay for her to tell that story, if true. It's clearly fucked her up for life r43

This is a couple years old but she looks a little less freakish here than I remembered.

Thinner, anyway. Still a bit permanently alarmed and 3D.

This is obviously Millie Bobby Brown and Winona Ryder.

lol Millie Bobby Brown.What an unfortunate choice of names

Can you scream white trash any louder?

Poor choice.

I would read its. It's surprising Nicholson hasn't been exposed yet

Would anyone be surprised at finding out that Nicholson did whatever?

I think it’s known in Hollywood r50. He was a huge star and made a lot of people a lot of money. They protected him.

He's still regarded as a huge star that people should feel sorry for because he's dying along @R50

He is as disgusting as Weinstein, but he had some passing good looks in the 1960s and very early 70s. After Chinatown he never looked that great.

If he was Weinstein level bad I believe we would’ve heard about it by now.

Jack worked with a lot of actresses. Did any of them ever complain about him? I don’t recall so.

The actresses he works with have nothing to do with his personal life off set. Him and Lara were dating for years. She wasn’t his costar.

Boyle was very good in Season One of “Twin Peaks.”

I always felt that Jack wasn't really acting in "Carnal Knowledge."

Kathy Bates said that he was very respectful on the set of About Schmidt. That means something to me. I think he was more of a problem off set.

Was Jennifer Jason Leigh ever considered A list?

More so than Lara Flynn Boyle, but no.

Jennifer Jason Leigh is a great actor. While she doesn't have legions of roles to call on, she's still a great talent.

It will "blow up Jack Nicholson?"

JJL is terrible in Fargo.

[quote] Lara quoted Beddie Davis (“Old Age ain’t no place for sissies”)

There's no end of laughter.

Jada Pinkett Smith / Will Smith

Never liked Nicholson, he gives me congestion from all the scenery chewing. He also always looked like s terrible person, Angelica Houston hints at tings.

Lara Flynn Boyle i loved. From Twii. peaks to Helen Gamble. She had a small moment in the 90s. But she was a bitch, she said in an interview (from Talk, that Tina Borwn thing that when she entered a room all the women hated her ( or someone similar). The she started dating Nicholson. She was actually talented but not someone i think this is completely undeserved

R64 She’s my favorite part of the show. She’s fabulous.

The book would sell and get a lot of attention.

Private Practice: My Very Personal Journey through Dyslexia, Addiction, and Abuse in Tinsel Town

The problem is that Jack still has very devoted acquaintances and one of them could mistake the situation and Lara could be a best seller post mortem.

Nicholson was a very fine actor. Other than that, I don't care.

JJL can be very hammy

Greta G.'s puny talents aren't on the same continent as JJL's genius.

R70 Good diet tips? Fat whore here.

You all are slipping. If Lara Puss Boyle is writing a book, what will she have to say about Faye Dunaway in The Temp?!?!

In 2012, EL wrote this blind item about LFB herself even mentioning what a book she might write would be like:

[quote] It is quite shocking that this actress is even still alive. She probably spent more on drugs and did more drugs than any other actress in modern Hollywood. She rarely works anymore although she has talked of a comeback. Back in the day this actress was just about A list and was doing movies and television and had an A list boyfriend. That was the peak of her drug use. His parties were legendary and he paid for the drugs and our actress had about a two year period there which is just one big blank. If this actress ever decides to write a book to tell her tales it will be filled with orgies and drugs like you have never seen. Her boyfriend used to make her have sex with everyone and everything. Men or women, old and young. She did it too because she was so crazy for the drugs. She basically could not function enough to work for a several year period but her boyfriend would make sure she was hired more to keep her out of the house than out of any goodness of his heart. She was just a plaything to him. Had them before and has them now. Not as many now, but he still has them. Back then he was winding down his party lifestyle and she was the perfect way for him to go out. She is a hollow shell compared to what she used to be. She is with someone else now. He doesn't really know what happened. He is just enamored with the fact that he has an actress who used to be in movies and television. The fact that she does not talk about that part of her life or have many memories of it and has had so much brain damage that she can barely make sentences sometimes does not really bother him. This actress had such promise and it went away in a drug induced haze that is the biggest anyone can remember. August 6, 2012

btw - Isn't she still married to the guy mentioned in the blind? I wonder what he'd think about a book.

Jack Nicholson is A+++ list and would not be “enamored that he had an actress from movies and tv”. Please

R78 I am not R77, but I am fairly sure that quote is referring to her current bf/husband, not Nicholson. You may want to reread it.

With the exception of the late Robert Mitchum, nobody is cooler than Jack Nicholson: dudes wanted to bromance him; women wanted to fuck him.

[quote]The book would sell and get a lot of attention.

So they told me. I only sold 212,000 books in over two months.

[quote] What does her Hollywood status have to do with this?

R26 She was called A List in the blind item, if that’s what you mean.

Good for her. She obviously needs the money. Jack was a good actor but always gave me the creeps.

Him was, r56?

Ann Morgan Guilbert

In the book You'll Never Make Love In This Town Again one of the hookers said her and Jack got in the shower and he pissed in her mouth. Then afterwards he kissed her and tasted his own urine.

Oh god, r80, are you 85? Jack Nicholson is a creep and a awful ham. Just because he was ugly he wasn’t a particularly good actor. I agree with you about Mitchum being the epitome of cool though.

He kind of always the same character

Jack Nicholson was the best and most emblematic actor of the 1970s, without a doubt. I think I read somewhere that he was into spanking women. But I hardly think that would raise many eyebrows now. In her divorce action against Cary Grant, Dyan Cannon talked about how Cary Grant once spanked her when he was angry at her about something, and it was treated as a kind of smarmy joke in the press at the time.

I think Nicholson is a good actor but whether he was the best of the 70s is debatable. Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffmann, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino for ex.

Nicholson is a one trick pony. He is Here’s Johny! In everything since The Shining.

Hackman had higher stature than Jack in the early years. But one could make a case for anyone listed at r90. I think that though Jack was indeed a legend already in the 70’s, he had not peaked.

R90: Nicholson was a box office star, his name on a picture brought in an audience. He was liked in and out of the business. More than you can say for many of the actors working in the 1970s on your list.

And at his best I think he was a much better actor than Newman, Redford, Hoffman, Dreyfuss and Shaw (who was not a movie star, however much stage work he did). Partly because he chose his parts well. And he got first refusal on many of the best scripts around. DeNiro and Pacino were great actors, but didn’t begin to hit their stride as stars until well into the ‘70s.

I also used the word “emblematic” to mean he seemed to sum up that movie decade as a star other men liked and that women felt drawn to, someone everyone wanted to see. In the ‘50s that was William Holden (who was more accessible than Brando) in the ‘60s Paul Newman. And I think it was Jack Nicholson in the 1970s.

[quote] And at his best I think he was a much better actor than Newman, Redford, Hoffman, Dreyfuss and Shaw

It’s not just acting skills or talent. What Nicholson had more than any in your list (except Newman and possibly Shaw), was a simply undeniable charisma. I realized that with The Last Tycoon in his scene with DeNiro, and in all his scenes in Reds. He blew anyone and everyone else in a scene with him off the screen. In the words of Andreas Voutsinas: “You either got it, or you ain!t”

[quote] "Anjelica Huston"

Love, love, love, R1. He didn't deserve her.

People are overestimating Nicholson's cinematic draw for the ladies. While he may have been charismatic and charming, he did not have the appeal of Clint Eastwood or others for female fans.

I find her face so disturbing now. The same with Daryl Hannah. It's not that people get older. I have a thumbnail of my mum as a 4 year old in my contacts and she's absolutely recognizable even if she's past 80 now. I cannot find young Boyle or Hannah in their faces now and I find it really scary.

She was the first person I heard of who had their anus bleached regularly.

Is that still a thing?

As a stickwoman, the only thing that stands out of her projects was the Todd Solandz movie Happiness. She was more normal looking in Twin Peaks.

I wish people would refrain from using the word "expose" in reference to Jack Nicholson.

R91 totally agree. Yes, he’s charismatic, but the guy has ZERO range. There’s a reason he retired while some of his contemporaries are still out there playing dramatic roles that he would never have the chops to tackle.

Whatever her early issues and what course her life has taken, as a young actress she had focus, appeal, intelligence and depth.

Her story is welcome.

Nobody cares or will read a book from this barely then has-been

R94: "...and in all his scenes in Reds."

He is absolute dynamite in REDS. So, so sexy.

He was the poster boy for old white man entitlement.

I've decided to title it "You Can't Handle My Truth!"

[quote]Remember when Boyle was on SNL and did a skit called, “Help me, I’m a starving actress!” in response to media stories about her weight? But the audience didn’t laugh because it was so obvious Boyle was indeed a starving actress.

She also at that time did a skit on Rosie O'Donnell's show where she and Rosie ate junk food together to show LFB was not starving.

But Rosie would cram her entire Pink Snowball cake into her mouth, while Lara would just have the tiniest nibble of hers.

As '90s magazine covers went, it was almost up there with Demi's pregnant Vanity Fair and Peter Lindbergh's Vogue supermodels cover.

When women were......

I also used the word “emblematic” to mean he seemed to sum up that movie decade as a star other men liked and that women felt drawn to, someone everyone wanted to see. In the ‘50s that was William Holden (who was more accessible than Brando) in the ‘60s Paul Newman. And I think it was Jack Nicholson in the 1970s.

R93 Yes you’ve stated this theory before and apparently you’re sure you’re right.

I don’t think Nicholson wasn’t emblematic of the ‘70s, I just don’t think he’s the only actor who was. Few of his ‘70s moves were big hits. Robert Redford was probably the biggest star of the ‘70s and many people associate him closely with the decade. Nicholson was so unpopular by the end of the ‘70s, Terms Of Endearment in the early ‘80s was considered a comeback, at the time. In a supporting role (back then, stars didn’t regularly take supporting roles like they do now).

As for Holden, in the 50’s, why not Gregory Peck? Why not James Stewart - the ‘50s was his most popular decade and he appeared in hit after hit, all the westerns, The Glenn Miller Story, the Hitchcock films, Anatomy Of A Murder, etc. And what about John Wayne, for that matter? It was his biggest decade, too.

R107, except they were all wearing Mom jeans in that pic...

I still have 501s from the era, r109. Definitely not mom jeans. And whaddaya know, high waists are coming back.

R 108: You’ve named a lot popular movie actors but to me, “emblamatic” refers to an actor that broke through in a given decade continued to dominate it, and somehow comes to represent it.

Gregory Peck broke through as a star during the WWII years, and Stewart at the end of the ‘30s. Wayne, who’d been around since the silents, also broke through in ‘39 as a star. But though consistently popular, he was never the rage, perhaps because he wasn’t tied to any one studio. All continued to star in hit films in the ‘50s but they’d been around in successful films for years already, they were just part of the movie landscape by then.

Redford had a lot of hits in the ‘70s sure, but he was always stiff as an actor and he didn’t rack up Oscar nominations in big popular hits the way Nicholson did after his breakthrough in “Easy Rider” in ‘69 followed by “Five Easy Pieces” in ‘71, “The Last Detail” in ‘73, “Chinatown” in ‘74, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in ‘75, movies that hit the pop culture and/or political sweet spot. Redford was known as a political liberal but personally and as a screen presence his image was square, he was a star your mother could love. Nicholson had a whiff of danger and of the counter-culture which was what made him a far hotter and hipper star than Redford.

You are right that Nicholson’s career slowly ran out of steam by the end of the decade, but white-hot stardom — if it comes at all — never lasts for very long. There are always new people coming up. Nicholson got Supporting nominations for “Terms of Endearment” and “Reds” by which time he was simply another male star in the movie landscape just as Peck and Stewart had been. But from ‘70 - ‘75 no other male star could touch him.

R111 Wayne was under contract to Republic Studios.

R111 Good points, btw. I see what you mean.

R112 Yes, but “Dark Command” was the only big hit he did for Republic. Most of the films he did after “Stagecoach” were for a variety of studios.

Nicholson and Pacino both had great runs through 1975, then concurrent dry spells. Pacino loved going back to the theater, but I don't think Nicholson did any plays after 1960.

R80 Steve McQueen. Also had a fucked up past also beat on women.

Will her book give dirty, shocking details of Jack the sex pig?