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Jack Nicholson Teamed Up with Don Cheadle and Dennis Hopper for Charity
October 11, 2005
Jack Nicholson hosted the inaugural JACK NICHOLSON/ RUDY DURAN Celebrity Golf Classic in California at the weekend (09 OCT. '05), according to Contactmusic.
The 69-year-old Hollywood actor’s pals DENNIS HOPPER and DON CHEADLE joined him on the links and helped to raise over $600,000 (GBP333,300) for children's charities.
Abandoned by his father in his childhood, Jack Nicholson was raised with the certainty that his grandmother was his mother and his mother was his older sister.
The truth was revealed to him years later, when a Time magazine researcher uncovered it while preparing a story on the star.
The reason why this happened still remains a mystery.
Jack Nicholson was recently rumored to have been rejected by former Brookside actress Anna Friel, who performed in the Broadway musical Closer.
"He was really flirtatious and I went: 'Give over! How many women have you said that to? You're old enough to be my grandad.'" Friel wass quoted by Breakingnews.ie as saying.
The famous dramatic actor, also known for his charity acts, has been nominated for 12 Academy Awards and he's won three times: for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, from the book by Ken Kesey), for Terms of Endearment (1984) and for As Good As It Gets (1997, with Helen Hunt). He first made a splash as hippie lawyer in Easy Rider (1969, with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper), and, three decades later, he remains a bankable star in such films as About Schmidt (2002), Anger Management (2003, with Adam Sandler ) and Something's Gotta Give (2003, with Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves). He has also appeared in Chinatown (1974, opposite Faye Dunaway), A Few Good Men (1992, with Demi Moore and Tom Cruise) and as Jimmy Hoffa in Hoffa (1992).
In 1998, after Nicholson has visited Cuba and had a three hour conversation with Fidel Castro, he told Daily Variety: "He(Castro) is a genius." According to former Cuban intelligence officer Delfin Fernandez, Nicholson's hotel room in Cuba, was bugged with both video and audio recording devices at the instruction of Castro.
Source: News.softpedia.com
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