Jack: A Biography of Jack Nicholson

Among the startling revelations:

• A longtime girlfriend who describes Jack's reaction when he at last discovered the long-buried, dark secret of his childhood
• Jack's notorious penny-pinching, such as the time he came home from a movie set with a doggie bag of catered Mexican food
• The woman Jack "shared" with Robert Evans and Warren Beatty
• The night Christina Onassis, who'd had a fling with Jack in Los Angeles, got mad at him for seducing a girl in her party at Xenon
• The beauty queen who was still married to drug dealer Tom Sullivan when she was drawn to Jack
• The beautiful, talented costar who showed up at Jack's house at 1 A.M. and what happened when live-in girlfriend Anjelica Huston answered the intercom
• The night Steve Rubell ran around Studio 54 saying, "We got to keep Ryan O'Neal and Jack Nicholson away from each other. There's going to be a big fight."
• Why Rebecca Broussard refused him when Jack asked for her hand in marriage in 1993, even after having two children with him
• Why Katharine Hepburn's goddaughter still loves Jack and has spent years looking for a man who can measure up to him
• Diane Keaton's reaction to Jack passing gas during filming of a love scene for Something's Gotta Give
• Jennifer Howard, who found Jack's lovemaking "very oomph! He knows what he's doing. You can kind of just let go. Let him le-e-e-ad the way!"In Jack, Edward Douglas offers us a provocative, fascinating portrait of the man, the legend, the star: Jack Nicholson.