% 10 <£utlfcorbian jFeaturrS September 30,1994 Let Us Now Praise Jack Nicholson (The Kitson Broadbelt Sometimes he rages quietly all my press?" tal "M"who other men admire and Mission) and sometimes loudly Yes, and Wolf look up to yet who is stilltrue and Features Editor (Taxi Driver). Robert Redford is is no exception. unmitigated enough to cry out the tortured, haunted, golden boy. Perhaps the first when he's hurt and run when he's NICHOLSON IS A A 1 Pacino is (with the single ex- movie in which scared. BEAUTIFUL MAN. He is ception of The Godfather) mad and Jack gets to be- And above all, through each ac- JACKan indeed more beautiful screaming about it. John come Jack, Wolf tion he makes on or offcamera man than Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Malkovich is mysteriously wicked is also the first of there is the feeling that it's natu- John Malkovich, Warren Beatty, and Marlon Brando is, well, the actor's mov- ral. Too many of those our age Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Marlon Brando. ies to take a stab strike out in impotent and con- Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert Jack, on the other hand...Jack is at explicating trivedways, trying desperately not Redford, and even A 1 Pacino. He a way of life, a living, breathing what being Jack to be domesticated, not to be con- is more beautiful than these men attitude. means. Adver- trolled, but only proving the point not forwhat he is as an individual Last year, in preparation for tised as the story more. Jack moves and Jack is. He but rather for what he has created Wolf Jack was asked to do a typi- ofa man's trans- willnot rip his clothes to oppose as a character. Jack Nicholson is cal promotional interview formation from convention or dreadlock his hair a beautiful man because he has for Vanity Fair magazine. The wimpy book edi- to establish his individual persona. given us what we have come to eventual interview and accompa- tor to badass man Can you imagine anything more ri- know today as Jack Nicholson. nying article were not exactly typi- beast, wolf is diculous? Jack exists in a far more With his most recent film, Wolf, cal. "There are only two people also about the eternal plane than those who swim now being shown at the nearby in this world you should have to freedom of Jack in culture and those who counter Quaker Cinema I thought now as lie to," Jack evenly told the maga- everyone in the world seems to go (or what the movie calls "Wolf'). it Jack is forever. apt a time as ever to tribute this zine, "one is the cops the other is out of their way to be quiet, to be The movie itself provides the And beyond this he is an amaz- great personage and speak briefly your girlfriend." Such a statement unobtrusive, to be unassuming, best definition: "Love without ingly gifted actor, a superlative on what he has contributed to the by such a prominent individual doesn't it seem important to at least doubt, power without guilt It feels artist, for how else could his mes- collective consciousness of wouldusually be quickly followed remember Jack. good to be a wolf, no?" sage be so clear and so accessible? America and, to a lesser degree, in the media by downcast looks, Remember him asking for an Still,being a Wolf is not being a Jack Nicholson is a lesson well- the world. condemnations and general ill-will order oftoast even though it wasn't god. Although Jack does in many learned. Jack is distinguished from the towards the author. on the menu: "Allright, then I'd ways have his similarities to espe- Ithought of Jack the other day, likes of Pacino and Redford be- But this was Jack talking and like a chicken salad sandwich, hold cially the Greek god Dionysius, he sitting in my comfortable bed on a cause Jack is no longer an actor, there is one fundamental under- the lettuce hold the mayo. And one is human?very human. There are lazy Sunday afternoon. The fire Jack is a sociological phenom- standing that most people have more thing, hold the chicken." dozens ofbooks articles commen- alarm went off, blaring its obnox- enon. Perhaps this observation is about the man which overrides al- "You want me to hold the taries, what-have-you, that will ious message: "there's no fire, I'm not as accurate for our generation most any such reformatory back- chicken?" "No, Iwant you to hold describe in detail the people that justpathetic and need attention so as for our parents's but, damnit, it lash: Jack is honest And really, in it between your kneeeeees." Jack has hurt in his life: the bro- Ipulled this fire alarm to make you should be. There is a lesson in such an age of political correct- Remember him describing the ken relationships, the failed mar- get up for no reason at all." So Jack, one Ibelieve many ofus have ness, prepared statements and spe- fairer sex after being scorned: riages, the BMWs whose windows there Iwas, trying out of training missed. cialized speech what could be "Women: a mistake? Or did He were smashed by Jack and Jack's to ignore it, ignore the noise and Each actor seems to have a char- more rare and valuable than hon- do it to us on purpose?" golf clubs. pretend it wasn't there?shut it acter, a collected individual who esty. Or even remember him philoso- But the original image persists. out..shut it in. And then 1 heard is the assimilation of all their pre- Sure, this is an outlook not phizing on the sheer injustice of the Aman unfettered by the socializa- his voice...whispering softly to vious parts. Robert DeNiro, for prescribable for everyone. We world: "Will somebody tell me tion of the gentleman. Acreature me... and my eyes began to search example, has made himself the can't possibly have everyone run- what kind ofworld do we live in who seems to move by instinct and the room for my five-iron. image of a forever raging bull. ning about doing Jack. But when when a man dressed as a bat steals intuition alone. AMan withacapi- Claude VanDamme's new artis- ticcreation Tune Cop. Brassfield's be," said one student "I mean, There has been much furor over marquee was also sporting the that's just a rumor, right?" Right- The Guilfordian's last week's psychological thriller The Little o, smartguy. front-page photo of Wade Tomlin- Rascals and Terrace's marquee Suprise of all suprises, the for- son, and close friend Susan Allen stillblazed the times for the übiq- ever planned, forever debated, for- dancing. Eventual blame fell on uitous Forrest Gump. Fortunately, ever delayed Sesquentennial the shoulders ofGuilfordian Fea- the organization which has been Garden finally got the official go tures Section editor Kitson sponsoring the Carolina Classic ahead from the Board of Trust- Broadbelt, whose idea it was filmseries willbe presenting are- ees this week. Apparently the ac- originallyto run the picture. Mr. AGONIES stored version of A Streetcar tual work won't begin until No- Broadbelt was unavailable for T^JTTD Named Desire on October 11 at vember at the earliest but that comment but those close to the 7:30 PM. Tickets are $4 and can didn't deter the Board who fore- editor say he understands that such be purchased at the door the night sees the project to be completed behavior has no place in an orga- 'nnnm of the show. The theatre is located around the year 2015. With the nization as efficient, businesslike, 0 policy that only random people professional Hfin downtown at 310 South Greene and as The Guilfor- Street. from the street be used as work- dian. "He's really sorry," said a The Guilford College Football ers there will undoubtedly be a close friend. "He swears itwon't team extended their record to 3-0 problem with gaps in finished ever ever happen again." this week beating a favored work. "There's a big risk ofmud And finally, as proof that the Jul)... puddles," said Hampden-Sydney at Hampden Dan Poteet. With pen is indeed mightier than some- such mounting obstacles, students j-irch(r Sydney. The Ham-Syd defense things, the infamous showers of had held its two previous oppo- have at begun to show a dis- Binford which first-year studejnt Senior Those who have oftenclaimed turned away as such Triad area nents to a whopping 90 yards on interest in the project. and writer extrordinaire Alison Scott up Greensboro to be a cultural theatres as Brassfield, Litchfield, the ground before Guilford forgot Shaffer summed the Amis described in these pages last vacuum had more evidence for Janus, and Terrace all left the criti- that stat few everyone rushing for feelings ofmany: "Isay they just week have been repaired. From pave campus over." Scott will their case this week. Anxious cally-acclaimed motion picture over26o yards. With this the third die allreports, water now runs freely movie-goers hopeful and ready to out of their weekly lineups. victory, word is beginning to cir- evidently be replacing the late through the drains. "I'mjust...so as Guilford's re- see Robert Redford's highly- Strangely, all of these theatres culate intocampus of the Football Melissa Hoopes happy..." was all Alison could gent Enviormental watchdog. touted film Quiz Show were managed to find room for Jean- teams's existence.