SFG75
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He's back, and Rolling Stone has a killer interview about it.
He is a man who finds the world vaguely ridiculous. He's Puck, a mischief-maker with a reputation for telling it like it is. The perennial odd man out, he was the most famous movie rebel of his generation and generations since have continued to embrace him. He thumbed his nose at the Establishment by sticking around long enough to be accepted on all levels.
And, at 63, Jack Nicholson is returning to movies for the first time in three years since winning the third of his Oscars for the romantic comedy "As Good As It Gets."
"I only work when I find something worthwhile to do," he says succinctly.
What he's found is "The Pledge," a dark drama about obsession directed by his friend Sean Penn and with an amazing cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave, Harry Dean Stanton, Helen Mirren, Sam Shepard, Mickey Rourke, Robin Wright Penn and Benicio Del Toro. He plays Jerry Black, a Nevada police detective who is nearing retirement but promises the mother of an 8-year-old murder victim that he will find the killer.