Steve MARTIN Actor/ Writer/ Comedian
"Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke"
Birthname: Stephen Glenn Martin.
Born in Waco, Texas and raised in Southern California, Martin became a television writer in the late 1960's, winning an
Emmy Award for his work on the hit series "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour." By the end of the
decade he was performing his own material in clubs and on television.
Launched by frequent appearances on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show," Martin went on to host several
shows in the innovative "Saturday Night Live" series and to star in and co-write four highly rated
television specials. When performing on national concert tours, he drew standing-room-only audiences in some of the largest
venues in the country. He won Grammy Awards for his two comedy albums, "Let's Get Small" and "A Wild and Crazy Guy," and had a gold record with his single "King Tut."
Martin's first film project, The Absent-Minded Waiter, a short he wrote and starred in,
was nominated for a 1977 Academy Award. In 1979, he moved into feature films, co-writing and starring in The
Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner. In 1981, he starred opposite Bernadette Peters in Herbert Ross' bittersweet musical
comedy, Pennies From Heaven. It wasn't very succesful but after that, he was under way to become
ne of the best comedians around.
Trivia:
Is an accomplished banjo player and appears playing the instrument in Earl Scruggs and Friends video for "Foggy
Mountain Breakdown", for which he won a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance.
Stanley Kubrick liked his work in The Jerk (1979) and
once considered having him play Bill Harford in Eyes Wide Shut (1999); the role which later went
to Tom Cruise.
Dated Anne Heche.
Is a trustee of the Los Angeles Museum of Art, and collects the art of O'Keefe,
Diebenkorn, de Kooning, Kline, Twombly, Frankenthaler, Hopper, Hockney, Lichtenstein, and Picasso.
Born at 5:54am-CWT
More appearances on 'Saturday Night Live' than anyone else (followed closely by
Buck Henry). Some 25 at last count.
He is in the horn section of B.B. King's "In The Midnight Hour" music video.
Studied philosophy at California State University at Long Beach, and for a while,
considered becoming a philosophy professor instead of an actor-comedian.
Once had a job at Disneyland in the Magic Shop on Main Street, USA.
Dated Bernadette Peters and Helena Bonham Carter.
Besides working for Disneyland, he also worked for the neighboring, Knott's Berry Farm as a comedian in their
"Birdcage Theatre" after high school.
Graduated from Garden Grove High School in 1963.
Member of Saturday Night Live's "Five Timers Club" by hosting 13 times (the most
one person has ever hosted).
Contrary to popular belief, Martin was never been a cast member on Saturday Night Live.
He has, however, hosted the show more times than anyone else.
He hosted the 75th Annual Academy Awards.
He is a fan of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969).
As a vegetarian, he made fun of hotdogs in a 1970s standup act.
His study of philosophy was a source of much of his material for his 1970s standup act.
Was an extra in Bruce Lee's second movie, "Fist of Fury".
He plays a policeman who shoots Bruce at the very end of the film.
Was listed as #50 in People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" List (2003).
Was voted Most Talented by his classmates at Garden Grove high school.
Chosen as #6 in Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time
Jack NICHOLSON (Actor, Writer, Producer, Director
"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch"
Ridiculously Short Biography:
Abandoned by his father in his childhood, he was raised believing his grandmother
was his mother and his mother was his older sister. The truth was revealed to him years later when a Time magazine researcher
uncovered the truth while preparing a story on the star. Jack had a 17 year relationship with actress
Anjelica Huston which ended in 1990 after Rebecca Broussard was carrying his child. He is mostly known for acting crazy (not only at the
movies!) with perfection as we saw in The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Batman. He did try to come down a bit
in the moving and excellent About Schmidt only to go nuts again in Anger Management.
Trivia :
Graduate of Manasquan High School Manasquan, New Jersey
Ranked #6 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
American Film Institute Life Achievement Award [1994]
Used to be a messenger boy for MGM's cartoon department.
Children: Jennifer Nicholson (b. 1965) with Sandra Knight. Lorraine (b. 1990) and Raymond (b. 1992) with Rebecca Boussard.
Jack Nicholson was the 2001 John F. Kennedy Center Honors recipient.
Dedicated his Oscar for As Good As It Gets (1997) to J.T. Walsh, his co-star in _Few Good, Men, A (1992)_ who had died shortly before the Academy Awards in 1998.
In 1994, in an apparent bout of rage, Nicholson smashed a man's car window in with a golf club. The incident
puzzled most people.
Loves jokes at his expense so much that he showed up at every Academy Awards hosted by Billy Crystal, who in turn would incorporate Nicholson somehow in the telecast.
Lives on famed "Bad Boy Drive" a.k.a. Muholland Drive in Beverly Hills, CA. It's nicknamed so because its
residents are famed Hollywood bad boys Warren Beatty, Marlon Brando, and Nicholson.
Avid Los Angeles Lakers fan. He never misses a Lakers home game. Because of this, producers on his films must
work the shooting schedule around the Lakers' schedule.
Was asked, along with Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, to play the role of Michael Corleone in Godfather, The (1972).
Dated Lara Flynn Boyle [1999-2001]
Best Lady at his wedding to Sandra Knight was Millie Perkins, Best Man was Harry Dean Stanton. After their
divorce, Nicholson lived, for a time, at Stanton's place.
Never does televised interviews.
Nicholson has a daughter, Honey Hollman (b. 1981) with Danish supermodel, Winnie Hollman. Honey lived with
Nicholson in his house in Beverly Hills for a year (2001).
Flew to Cuba and met with Fidel Castro in June 1998. While there, Nicholson also met with leaders of the Cuban
film industry, enjoyed local restaurants jazz clubs and visited a famous cigar factory. He left greatly impressed with the
country and its Communist dictator, though the luxuries he was treated to on the island are off-limits to most Cuban citizens.
Is of Irish and Italian heritage.
Is the most Acadamy Award nominated actor in film history.
When he was working with Boris Karloff, he saw how Karloff would mark his lines the the script. He adopted
the procedure himself.
Each one of the films for which he has won an Oscar has also won Best Actress in a Leading Role (Louise Fletcher,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment; Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets).
Has a second home in Aspen, Colorado.
Graduate of Manasquan High School, Manasquan, New Jersey, where he was voted "Class Clown" by the Class of
1954.
