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Danny DeVito Gives Rare Update on His Longtime Friend Jack Nicholson: "He Is Doing 'Great"
Yara Sameh Danny DeVito has given a rare update on his longtime friend Jack Nicholson, with whom he first worked 50 years ago and still retains a close bond with. 'I just saw Jack a couple weeks ago — it was his birthday a month ago, and he's great,' DeVito told PEOPLE while reflecting on his experience making his breakthrough film, " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ", ahead of Fathom Entertainment's 50th anniversary re-release of the pic on July 13 and 16. Public sightings of Nicholson, 88, have grown increasingly rare — though he's been largely absent from his once-fabled court side seat at Los Angeles Lakers games — the Academy Award winner did make a notable on-camera appearance during the live broadcast of "SNL50: The Anniversary Special" in February to celebrate five decades of Saturday Night Live. But behind the scenes, DeVito, 80, says he's stayed in regular contact with his friend after bonding on the set of "Cuckoo's Nest" over their shared New Jersey roots. Indeed, DeVito's next film before the sitcom Taxi vaulted him to TV stardom was in the Nicholson-directed 1978 comedy "Goin' South". The two would also appear onscreen together in James L. Brooks' seriocomic, 1983 Best Picture winner "Terms of Endearment", the 1992 biopic "Hoffa" directed by DeVit,o and the 1996 Tim Burton comedy "Mars Attacks!". DeVito recalled how he and the other young actors in the "Cuckoo's Nest" cast — including Christopher Lloyd and Brad Dourif — were quietly 'in awe' of Nicholson when they convened at a working state sanitarium in Portland, Oregon, to shoot the film. Nicholson was emerging as a respected actor, a major movie star and a cultural icon all at once, and his performance in "Cuckoo's Nest" would cement his reputation, ultimately earning him his first Oscar for Best Actor — out of 12 career nominations, he scored additional wins for Best Supporting Actor in "Terms of Endearment" and again for Best Actor in 1998's "As Good as It Gets". 'We're in the presence of this guy who's really at his moment, where he was breaking out into the big time,' DeVito recalled of the initial encounter with Nicholson, who was hot off a string of knockout turns including "Easy Rider," "Carnal Knowledge," "The Last Detail," and "Chinatown". Despite Nicholson's increasing profile, DeVito noted the actor remained deeply grounded, having launched his career in low-budget fare like the films of Roger Corman. "There was no need for an icebreaker," he recalled. "He was immediately just so embracing…He started out exactly the way everybody else did, where he couldn't get a job. It was like he came to Hollywood and he was going to just write and direct, and then Easy Rider comes along after the Corman stuff… So he was in our milieu, and he was always just as open and genuine, and we all felt it immediately." 'Of course, he was doing it because he's that way,' DeVito added, 'and he was also doing it because that had to be, because we had to be all joined at the hip in that movie, and we had such great performances.' DeVito had been an admirer of Nicholson's since the actor's earliest work, and while he planned to keep it to himself during initial production, 'he and I have a little history, because we were born in the same hospital in New Jersey.' He recalls how his sisters worked in the same local hair salon circuit as Nicholson's older sister. "When I was a kid, I always heard about this really handsome guy from Neptune who went out to California and became a movie star," he said. DeVito's cover 'I didn't want to ruffle the waters; I didn't want to add anything to the experience at that time' was blown early on when his longtime friend and former roommate Michael Douglas, who was making his first foray into producing on the film, spilled the beans to an enthusiastic Nicholson. 'Jack came running around the corner: 'Ahhhh! You're from Asbury Park?' DeVito laughed. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" would go on to become only the second film in history, after 1934's "It Happened One Night", to claim all five major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Director (Milos Forman), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). The film is today universally considered a masterpiece. 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Japan Today
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Japan Today
Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito revisit ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' for its 50th anniversary
This image released by Fathom Entertainment shows Jack Nicholson, seated left, and Danny DeVito, seated right, with supporting cast in a scene from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." (Fathom Entertainment via AP) By LINDSEY BAHR Jack Nicholson did not want to go to the Oscars. It was 1976 and he was nominated for best actor in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' The Miloš Forman film, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a nationwide theatrical re-release on July 13 and July 16, had become a bit of a sensation — the second highest grossing picture of 1975, behind 'Jaws,' and had received nine Oscar nominations. But Nicholson wasn't feeling optimistic. In five years, he'd already been nominated five times. He'd also lost five times. And he told his producer, Michael Douglas, that he couldn't go through it again. 'I remember how hard I had to persuade Jack to come to the ceremony. He was so reluctant, but we got him there,' Douglas said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. 'And then of course we lost the first four awards. Jack was sitting right in front of me and sort of leaned back and said 'Oh, Mikey D, Mikey D, I told you, man.' I just said, 'Hang in there.'' Douglas, of course, was right. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' would go on to sweep the 'big five' — screenplay, director, actor, actress and picture — the first film to do so in 41 years, ('It Happened One Night,' in 1934) which only 'The Silence of the Lambs' has done since. That night was one of many vindicating moments for a film that no one wanted to make or distribute that has quite literally stood the test of time. 'This is my first 50th anniversary,' Douglas said. 'It's the first movie I ever produced. To have a movie that's so lasting, that people get a lot out of, it's a wonderful feeling. It's bringing back a lot of great memories.' The film adaption of Ken Kesey's countercultural novel was a defining moment for Douglas, a son of Hollywood who was stuck in television and got a lifeline to film when his father, Kirk Douglas, gave him the rights to the book, and many of the then-unknown cast like Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd. DeVito was actually the first person officially cast. Douglas, who'd known him for nearly 10 years, brought Forman to see him play Martini on stage. 'Miloš said, 'Yes! Danny! Perfect! Cast!' Douglas said in his best Czech accent. 'It was a big moment for Danny. But I always knew how talented he was.' Though the film's themes are challenging, unlike many of its New Hollywood contemporaries it wasn't a tortured shoot by any stretch. They had their annoyances (like Forman refusing to show the cast dailies) and more serious trials (they found out halfway through production that William Redfield was dying of leukemia), but for the most part it was fun. 'We were very serious about the work, because Miloš was very serious. And we had the material, Kesey's work, and the reverence for that. We were not frivolous about it. But we did have a ball doing it,' DeVito said, laughing. Part of that is because they filmed on location at a real state hospital in Salem, Oregon. Everyone stayed in the same motel and would board the same bus in the morning to get to set. It would have been hard not to bond and even harder if they hadn't. 'There was full commitment,' Douglas said. 'That comes when you don't go home at night to your own lives. We stopped for lunch on the first day and I saw Jack kind of push his tray away and go outside to get some air. I said, 'Jack, you OK?' He said, 'Who are these guys? Nobody breaks character! It's lunch time and they're all acting the same way!'' Not disproving Nicholson's point, DeVito remembers he and the cast even asked if they could just sleep in the hospital. 'They wouldn't let us,' DeVito said. 'The floor above us had some seriously disturbed people who had committed murder.' The film will be in theaters again on July 13 and July 16 from Fathom Entertainment. It's a new 4K restoration from the Academy Film Archive and Teatro Della Pace Films with an introduction by Leonard Maltin. 'It's a gorgeous print and reminds me how good the sound was,' Douglas said. DeVito thinks it, 'holds up in a really big way, because Miloš really was paying attention to all great things in the screenplay and the story originally.' Besides the shock of 'holy Toledo, am I that old?' DeVito said that it was a treasure to be part of — and he continues to see his old friends, including Douglas, Lloyd and, of course, Nicholson, who played the protagonist, R.P. McMurphy. One person Douglas thinks hasn't gotten the proper attention for his contributions to 'Cuckoo's Nest' is producer Saul Zaentz, who died in 2014. His music company, Fantasy Records who had Creedence Clearwater Revival, funded the endeavor which started at a $1.6 million budget and ballooned to $4 million by the end. He was a gambler, Douglas said, and it paid off. And whatever sour grapes might have existed between Douglas and his father, who played R.P. McMurphy on Broadway and dreamt of doing so on film, were perhaps over-exaggerated. It was ultimately important for their relationship. 'McMurphy is as good a part as any actor is going to get, and I'm now far enough in my career to understand maybe you have four, maybe five good parts, really great parts. I'm sure for dad that was one of them,' Douglas said. 'To not be able to see it through was probably disappointing on one side. On the other, the fact that his son did it and the picture turned out so good? Thank God the picture turned out. It would have been a disaster if it hadn't." Douglas added: 'It was a fairy tale from beginning to end. I doubt anything else really came close to it. Even my Oscar for best actor years later didn't really surpass that moment very early in my career.' © Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
New York Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito celebrate ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' ahead of its 50th anniversary
Jack Nicholson did not want to go to the Oscars. It was 1976 and he was nominated for best actor in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' The Miloš Forman film, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a nationwide theatrical re-release on July 13 and July 16, had become a bit of a sensation — the second highest grossing picture of 1975, behind 'Jaws,' and had received nine Oscar nominations. But Nicholson wasn't feeling optimistic. In five years, he'd already been nominated five times. He'd also lost five times. And he told his producer, Michael Douglas, that he couldn't go through it again. 'I remember how hard I had to persuade Jack to come to the ceremony. He was so reluctant, but we got him there,' Douglas said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. 'And then of course we lost the first four awards. Jack was sitting right in front of me and sort of leaned back and said 'Oh, Mikey D, Mikey D, I told you, man.' I just said, 'Hang in there.'' 4 Saul Zaentz, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Michael Douglas of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' pose for photos at the Oscars. AP Douglas, of course, was right. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' would go on to sweep the 'big five' — screenplay, director, actor, actress and picture — the first film to do so in 41 years, ('It Happened One Night,' in 1934) which only 'The Silence of the Lambs' has done since. That night was one of many vindicating moments for a film that no one wanted to make or distribute that has quite literally stood the test of time. 'This is my first 50th anniversary,' Douglas said. 'It's the first movie I ever produced. To have a movie that's so lasting, that people get a lot out of, it's a wonderful feeling. It's bringing back a lot of great memories.' The film adaption of Ken Kesey's countercultural novel was a defining moment for Douglas, a son of Hollywood who was stuck in television and got a lifeline to film when his father, Kirk Douglas, gave him the rights to the book, and many of the then-unknown cast like Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd. DeVito was actually the first person officially cast. Douglas, who'd known him for nearly 10 years, brought Forman to see him play Martini on stage. 'Miloš said, 'Yes! Danny! Perfect! Cast!' Douglas said in his best Czech accent. 'It was a big moment for Danny. But I always knew how talented he was.' 4 Jack Nicholson, seated left, and Danny DeVito, seated right, in a scene from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' AP A joyful shoot Though the film's themes are challenging, unlike many of its New Hollywood contemporaries it wasn't a tortured shoot by any stretch. They had their annoyances (like Forman refusing to show the cast dailies) and more serious trials (they found out halfway through production that William Redfield was dying of leukemia), but for the most part it was fun. 'We were very serious about the work, because Miloš was very serious. And we had the material, Kesey's work, and the reverence for that. We were not frivolous about it. But we did have a ball doing it,' DeVito said, laughing. Every morning, the NY POSTcast offers a deep dive into the headlines with the Post's signature mix of politics, business, pop culture, true crime and everything in between. Subscribe here! Part of that is because they filmed on location at a real state hospital in Salem, Oregon. Everyone stayed in the same motel and would board the same bus in the morning to get to set. It would have been hard not to bond and even harder if they hadn't. 'There was full commitment,' Douglas said. 'That comes when you don't go home at night to your own lives. We stopped for lunch on the first day and I saw Jack kind of push his tray away and go outside to get some air. I said, 'Jack, you OK?' He said, 'Who are these guys? Nobody breaks character! It's lunch time and they're all acting the same way!'' Not disproving Nicholson's point, DeVito remembers he and the cast even asked if they could just sleep in the hospital. 'They wouldn't let us,' DeVito said. 'The floor above us had some seriously disturbed people who had committed murder.' A lasting legacy The film will be in theaters again on July 13 and July 16 from Fathom Entertainment. It's a new 4K restoration from the Academy Film Archive and Teatro Della Pace Films with an introduction by Leonard Maltin. 'It's a gorgeous print and reminds me how good the sound was,' Douglas said. 4 The film will return to theaters on July 13 and July 16 from Fathom Entertainment. AP DeVito thinks it, 'holds up in a really big way, because Miloš really was paying attention to all great things in the screenplay and the story originally.' Besides the shock of 'holy Toledo, am I that old?' DeVito said that it was a treasure to be part of — and he continues to see his old friends, including Douglas, Lloyd and, of course, Nicholson, who played the protagonist, R.P. McMurphy. 4 DeVito said he continues to see his old friends, including Douglas. Rich Fury/Invision/AP One person Douglas thinks hasn't gotten the proper attention for his contributions to 'Cuckoo's Nest' is producer Saul Zaentz, who died in 2014. His music company, Fantasy Records who had Creedence Clearwater Revival, funded the endeavor which started at a $1.6 million budget and ballooned to $4 million by the end. He was a gambler, Douglas said, and it paid off. And whatever sour grapes might have existed between Douglas and his father, who played R.P. McMurphy on Broadway and dreamt of doing so on film, were perhaps over-exaggerated. It was ultimately important for their relationship. 'McMurphy is as good a part as any actor is going to get, and I'm now far enough in my career to understand maybe you have four, maybe five good parts, really great parts. I'm sure for dad that was one of them,' Douglas said. 'To not be able to see it through was probably disappointing on one side. On the other, the fact that his son did it and the picture turned out so good? Thank God the picture turned out. It would have been a disaster if it hadn't.' Douglas added: 'It was a fairy tale from beginning to end. I doubt anything else really came close to it. Even my Oscar for best actor years later didn't really surpass that moment very early in my career.'
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Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito revisit ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' for its 50th anniversary
The film adaption of Ken Kesey's countercultural novel was a defining moment for Douglas, a son of Hollywood who was stuck in television and got a lifeline to film when his father, Kirk Douglas, gave him the rights to the book, and many of the then-unknown cast like Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd. read more Jack Nicholson did not want to go to the Oscars. It was 1976 and he was nominated for best actor in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' The Miloš Forman film, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a nationwide theatrical re-release on July 13 and July 16, had become a bit of a sensation — the second highest grossing picture of 1975, behind 'Jaws,' and had received nine Oscar nominations. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD But Nicholson wasn't feeling optimistic. In five years, he'd already been nominated five times. He'd also lost five times. And he told his producer, Michael Douglas, that he couldn't go through it again. 'I remember how hard I had to persuade Jack to come to the ceremony. He was so reluctant, but we got him there,' Douglas said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. 'And then of course we lost the first four awards. Jack was sitting right in front of me and sort of leaned back and said 'Oh, Mikey D, Mikey D, I told you, man.' I just said, 'Hang in there.'' Douglas, of course, was right. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' would go on to sweep the 'big five' — screenplay, director, actor, actress and picture — the first film to do so in 41 years, ('It Happened One Night,' in 1934) which only 'The Silence of the Lambs' has done since. That night was one of many vindicating moments for a film that no one wanted to make or distribute that has quite literally stood the test of time. 'This is my first 50th anniversary,' Douglas said. 'It's the first movie I ever produced. To have a movie that's so lasting, that people get a lot out of, it's a wonderful feeling. It's bringing back a lot of great memories.' The film adaption of Ken Kesey's countercultural novel was a defining moment for Douglas, a son of Hollywood who was stuck in television and got a lifeline to film when his father, Kirk Douglas, gave him the rights to the book, and many of the then-unknown cast like Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD DeVito was actually the first person officially cast. Douglas, who'd known him for nearly 10 years, brought Forman to see him play Martini on stage.
Hindustan Times
4 days ago
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- Hindustan Times
Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito revisit ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' for its 50th anniversary
Jack Nicholson did not want to go to the Oscars. It was 1976 and he was nominated for best actor in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' The Miloš Forman film, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a nationwide theatrical re-release on July 13 and July 16, had become a bit of a sensation — the second highest grossing picture of 1975, behind 'Jaws,' and had received nine Oscar nominations. Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito revisit 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' for its 50th anniversary But Nicholson wasn't feeling optimistic. In five years, he'd already been nominated five times. He'd also lost five times. And he told his producer, Michael Douglas, that he couldn't go through it again. 'I remember how hard I had to persuade Jack to come to the ceremony. He was so reluctant, but we got him there,' Douglas said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. 'And then of course we lost the first four awards. Jack was sitting right in front of me and sort of leaned back and said 'Oh, Mikey D, Mikey D, I told you, man.' I just said, 'Hang in there.'' Douglas, of course, was right. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' would go on to sweep the 'big five' — screenplay, director, actor, actress and picture — the first film to do so in 41 years, which only 'The Silence of the Lambs' has done since. That night was one of many vindicating moments for a film that no one wanted to make or distribute that has quite literally stood the test of time. 'This is my first 50th anniversary,' Douglas said. 'It's the first movie I ever produced. To have a movie that's so lasting, that people get a lot out of, it's a wonderful feeling. It's bringing back a lot of great memories.' The film adaption of Ken Kesey's countercultural novel was a defining moment for Douglas, a son of Hollywood who was stuck in television and got a lifeline to film when his father, Kirk Douglas, gave him the rights to the book, and many of the then-unknown cast like Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd. DeVito was actually the first person officially cast. Douglas, who'd known him for nearly 10 years, brought Forman to see him play Martini on stage. 'Miloš said, 'Yes! Danny! Perfect! Cast!' Douglas said in his best Czech accent. 'It was a big moment for Danny. But I always knew how talented he was.' Though the film's themes are challenging, unlike many of its New Hollywood contemporaries it wasn't a tortured shoot by any stretch. They had their annoyances and more serious trials , but for the most part it was fun. 'We were very serious about the work, because Miloš was very serious. And we had the material, Kesey's work, and the reverence for that. We were not frivolous about it. But we did have a ball doing it,' DeVito said, laughing. Part of that is because they filmed on location at a real state hospital in Salem, Oregon. Everyone stayed in the same motel and would board the same bus in the morning to get to set. It would have been hard not to bond and even harder if they hadn't. 'There was full commitment,' Douglas said. 'That comes when you don't go home at night to your own lives. We stopped for lunch on the first day and I saw Jack kind of push his tray away and go outside to get some air. I said, 'Jack, you OK?' He said, 'Who are these guys? Nobody breaks character! It's lunch time and they're all acting the same way!'' Not disproving Nicholson's point, DeVito remembers he and the cast even asked if they could just sleep in the hospital. 'They wouldn't let us,' DeVito said. 'The floor above us had some seriously disturbed people who had committed murder.' The film will be in theaters again on July 13 and July 16 from Fathom Entertainment. It's a new 4K restoration from the Academy Film Archive and Teatro Della Pace Films with an introduction by Leonard Maltin. 'It's a gorgeous print and reminds me how good the sound was,' Douglas said. DeVito thinks it, 'holds up in a really big way, because Miloš really was paying attention to all great things in the screenplay and the story originally.' Besides the shock of 'holy Toledo, am I that old?' DeVito said that it was a treasure to be part of — and he continues to see his old friends, including Douglas, Lloyd and, of course, Nicholson, who played the protagonist, R.P. McMurphy. One person Douglas thinks hasn't gotten the proper attention for his contributions to 'Cuckoo's Nest' is producer Saul Zaentz, who died in 2014. His music company, Fantasy Records who had Creedence Clearwater Revival, funded the endeavor which started at a $1.6 million budget and ballooned to $4 million by the end. He was a gambler, Douglas said, and it paid off. And whatever sour grapes might have existed between Douglas and his father, who played R.P. McMurphy on Broadway and dreamt of doing so on film, were perhaps over-exaggerated. It was ultimately important for their relationship. 'McMurphy is as good a part as any actor is going to get, and I'm now far enough in my career to understand maybe you have four, maybe five good parts, really great parts. I'm sure for dad that was one of them,' Douglas said. 'To not be able to see it through was probably disappointing on one side. On the other, the fact that his son did it and the picture turned out so good? Thank God the picture turned out. It would have been a disaster if it hadn't." Douglas added: 'It was a fairy tale from beginning to end. I doubt anything else really came close to it. Even my Oscar for best actor years later didn't really surpass that moment very early in my career.' This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
