Jack Nicholson has dementia, friends fear

Jack Nicholson has not been seen publicly in over a year—and close friends fear the legendary Hollywood actor is suffering from Dementia.

I thought it was well known that he retired due to cognitive issues. Is 3300 sqft considered a sprawling mansion? I thought mansions were around 10,000 sqft.

So what you’re saying is he will be giving out the Best Picture Oscar this year.

He’s sharing diapers with Barbara Walters.

Now here is a man that knows how to pack a snack purse!

^^And the kid is looking longingly at it, as well. ^^

He's 84...not 40. People get old and die.

The proper form is:

SAD LAST DAYS: Jack Nicholson has dementia, friends fear

There have been rumours of Jack Nicholson have dementia for years now.

That article mentions that he “hasn’t worked since 2010,” as if he can’t be retired at 72/73.

Anyway, sigh. This is terrible if true. I just posted the restaurant scene from Terms of Endearment. The way he delivers “ass” with his breath sends me.

I’ve heard a doctor speak on dementia recently and he stated that the disease returns its victims to the core of who they were/are as a person. So, if they were a good person in their life, with dementia they’re pleasantly confused. If they were a horrible person, you’d see that reflected in their dementia. Etc.

Based on my experiences, I can maybe see this as true, though it’s not as black/white. I’ve been around patients who have swung both extremes in their demented state. I had one patient recently who mostly laughed and said silly things, but she could also be non-compliant and paranoid (who knows if there was any justification for that paranoia). I had another patient who always wanted to know what the “plan” was and thought everyone was conspiring against him. He could be quite mean, as well. But I feel like he might have been a gentle soul (yet, I’m unsure). Most of the patients have a disposition that was standard for them.

Regardless, dementia is nasty. Godspeed to his family and any DLer dealing with it in theirs.

*couldn’t be retired at 72/73.

(Obviously)

Someone should check what he's been been typing on his typewriter.

R12 Why would you imagine he has a typewriter?

Because he's become a Remington salesman, Rose.

R15, R16, sorry, not a Nicholson fan, but just googled him and typewriter and now get the reference from The Shining, which I've never watched.

All work and no play makes r14 a dull boy.

We can only hope he's spared a Nurse Ratched.

What a pig and only ok actor. Do not gaf.

Is Lara in a tutu taking care of him?

Fuck off R20. Nicholson has the awards to prove how good he is, so just fuck off, asshole.

As long he's not throwing little dogs into garbage chute.

Didn't he spend decades doing lots of cocaine?

Unfortunately that's one of the potential consequences, That is if he has any dementia at all, as far as we know it's all hearsay, perhaps he is just being smart being in his mid eighties and not going out in times of Covid.

He was pictured at a Bernie rally last winter and he looked fine. Fat as fuck but fine.

When someone retires there are always going to be health rumors. Maybe he just realized he was too old to get away with “playing Jack Nkcholson” anymore so he wanted to spare himself the humiliation. Who knows could be a lot of reasons.

It’s not like he’s DeNiro with a money draining ex he has to support.

R22 he was always “Jack” and I was never impressed. Go fuck yourself for calling me an asshole!

You're right Xennial. But I think he might have had one more performance in him. He signed onto a Toni Erdmann remake four years ago with Kristen Wiig attached before dropping out. Not that we need to see a remake of that fine film, but the role itself would have been a good and poignant one for him focusing solely on his character's relationship to his daughter more so than About Schmidt. A great final vehicle if Lisa Cholodenko would have been able to spin it with a fresh feel.

I would have liked to see that, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. I don't see any point to the project now unless they can get someone like Warren Beatty or even Robert Redford or Duvall.

R27

Beaty - too difficult

Redford - Retired, though he later retracted that so of

Duvall - He looked so feeble in Widows I thought he may not be longer with us anymore but I note he has completed another film and is filming another

Hackman would be a great choice and though he has not officially retired it does seem like he has.

I'm hoping the Toni Erdmann re-make never goes ahead. Lisa Cholodenko is more miss than hit and Wiig is a one hit wonder (Bridesmaid) - wish she would retire.

I like his work, I don’t like HIM. But dementia is a bitch, for those who love the person. Does anyone love him?

During the lockeded-down Xmas shopping season when stores had capacity limits I was 4th in line outside one of L.A.'s major literary bookstores. And behind me a man and the woman behind him in line began chit-chatting. He told her his brother had phone access to Jack Nicholson, because his brother did some kind of repair or tradeswork at Nicholson's house and Nichsolson took a liking to him. He then said Nicholson called his brother at all hours of the night to ramble on and one. He said "drunk and dementia."

[quote]So what you’re saying is he will be giving out the Best Picture Oscar this year.

Great - just what we need: a tie for Gladiator & La La Land

From Radar Online, 2013: Jack Nicholson Retires Due to Memory Loss Problems

He’ll still sit court side at Los Angeles Lakers’ games, but Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson has quietly retired from the movie business, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

The 76-year-old icon has no plans to appear in films again after a career spanning five decades.

“Jack has — without fanfare — retired,” a well-placed Hollywood film insider confirmed to Radar.

“There is a simple reason behind his decision — it’s memory loss. Quite frankly, at 76, Jack has memory issues and can no longer remember the lines being asked of him.

“His memory isn’t what it used to be.”

I thought Robert Duvall was dead

I’m reading Sam Was don’s The Big Goodbye, about the making of Chinatown. It’s just OK - kind of overwritten, and seems to gloss over the character flaws of Polanski and others in that crowd. But there’s some fun gossip about Jack, including that he would keep a big bowl full of cocaine on his coffee table at all times, foe anyone to just help themselves. He also gave away vials of cocaine as Christmas gifts.

r1, yeah, that was my first thought too

Between the coke and the cigarettes, it's a miracle he's lived as long as he has.

[quote] There have been rumours of Jack Nicholson have dementia for years now.

Thank you, Mongo.

Mongo no like Jack Nicholson have dementia?

^^ Apparently Jack Nicholson have multiple personalities

r2 all I have to say to you is. . .

Adele Dazeem

Poor Kristen Wiig. She was supposed to do a big movie with him.

OMG Everybody's getting old and dying

R44 I think the Toni Ehrdmann remake was canceled years ago

It seems people get old and die a lot now, more so than before.

That whole generation is almost gone.

I never liked him, but in The Pledge I thought it was touching the way he played the detective with dementia. I was puzzled when a psychologist asked the character if he got flushed--is that a symptom of dementia? Anyway, I'm sorry for anyone in this situation.

R26 - “ he was always “Jack” and I was never impressed. Go fuck yourself for calling me an asshole! —Awards don’t mean Jack”

You think you’re clever R26, by trying, and failing miserably to spin “Jack” like look at me I’m funny?

You’re not funny, and you’re a bigger asshole than I thought you were after I read your first comment at R20.

Hit the link, then read and weep Mary. Awards DO matter, and you sound like a bitter, so-so actor, who unfortunately, never made it. Or, a plain old miserable asshole.

We have failed as a society if we fear people getting old. It happens.

The ever-aphoristic (and off-base) R53.

R22 I AM a plain old miserable asshole…who is not impressed with Jack’s awards, having never been impressed with Jack’s acting and is most unimpressed with Jack’s treatment of women.

Thanks, R34, I'm with you. I was so looking forward to Sam Wasson's book about CHINATOWN since I love Wasson (he wrote the great Fosse bio) and I love the film, but I literally could not get through it. I might not be sophisticated enough to get it!

Jack is a great actor, one of the all-time greats. For many in the film community, he is the greatest. His AFI speech moves me like no other. The real deal.

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