"I don't do a lot of original screenwriting anymore, but if I were, I'd find a way to make this the dramatic narrative of a movie, because it's one of those silent yearnings of my own age group," he says. Nicholson co-stars with Morgan Freeman in "The Bucket List," about two terminally ill patients on a final fling. He's received 12 Oscar nominations, winning for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Terms of Endearment" and "As Good as it Gets." The March/April issue of AARP The Magazine will be available the week of Jan. 24.
Jack Nicholson says he's looking for love
NEW YORK (AP) - January 17, 2008 "I never minded being a fool for love," the 70-year-old Oscar
winner tells AARP The Magazine. "It's nice to have a place to be
foolish. Ask any old friend of mine, they'll say, `Jack's pretty
smart, but in this area the man is beyond the pale. Don't ask him
anything about love. Or if you ask him, don't listen to him."'
Nicholson says getting older has changed the way he woos women.
"I can't hit on a girl in public like I used to," he says. "I
never thought words like `undignified' would come into my own
reflections on myself, but I can't do it anymore."
Nicholson, whose past flames include Anjelica Huston and Lara
Flynn Boyle, explains: "I feel uncomfortable. I don't think
anybody cares what I do in these areas, but it feels a little bit
off to me."
He says he'd date a woman close to his age - or younger.
"In fact, every year I like to cover a very broad spectrum,"
he says. "But you know? I've been single for quite a long time.
I've been invested in my teenage children" with ex-girlfriend
Rebecca Broussard. (He was married to Sandra Knight in the 1960s.)
Nicholson says nearly all his contemporaries tell him they want
"that one last big romance."
