Nick Nolte, now 70 years old

Hope he stays out of the law's hands if he's having a party.

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So many good performances, including his mug shot.

Watched The Thin Red Line again this past Saturday, and he's just amazing. He gets every bit of Tall's rage and scheming.

remember how furiously he didn't clap for kazan? that was impressive just in itself

what was the beef?

Kazan Named Names

and Hollywood as usual got self-righteous on the most self-congratulatory night of the year.

ah i see. i just watched the clip on youtube. ed harris not clapping also but not so furiously.

love this guy, love Affliction... think he can make almost anything watchable...

I am mildly surprised to learn that People once named him their "Sexiest Man Alive."

heh, i remember that factoid surprising me a while back too... he was a model back in the 70s though!

whats the damn movie he's in where he tries to get busy with some guy...he's all "take off the robe baby."

DOA

err Q&A, rather

He's great.

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Happy birthday big guy!

very striking in a red dress in Breakfast of Champions, and was the best thing in Assayas's Clean.

I think my fave early roles are Who'll Stop the Rain and Under Fire.

Under Fire and Life Lessons are my favorites.

was the best thing in Assayas's Clean

can't say a nice thing without a massive diss implicit huh

So many good performances, including his mug shot.

Not that night's mug shot, according to Nick ("Do you see any numbers down there?") - just an ambitious cop with a sideline in amateur photography.

That "massive diss" you sense is only implicit if you think Nolte is incapable of being the best thing in a good movie, which you obv must think.

ehhhh the film is basically maggie cheung in every scene

He should have walked away with the Academy Award for Affliction--for the performance itself, and it also would have taken care of the lifetime-achievement end of things. I think they gave it to the guy who climbed on chairs that year. There might be one performance of his I love even more: North Dallas Forty.

zvookster reveals a forked tongue!

(I decided not to do a GIS on that one)

yeah, Clean is good nuff, but he's stratospheric.

I didn't care for Schrader's adaptation of Affliction much, but Nolte was way better than James Coburn (who DID get a 'lifetime achievement' tinman for it).

how was N.N. as Jefferson?

coburn was hilarious in affliction

It was...unique casting. Greta Scacci couldn't take her eyes off his putty nose.

thing i just realized: coburn was only 13 years older than nolte! that should go in that other thread about things

yeah, Coburn was terrible in Affliction: one of those hambone performances that's still entertaining. He was much better in a similar role in Payback a few months later.

Coburn was acting way too much like Yosemite Sam.

yosemite sam's a classic, timeless, hilarious character - dont see how he can be 'terrible' and 'entertaining' at the same time too, unless u mean... terribly entertaining

Lots of performances in Paddy Chayevsky movies are terrible and entertaining (i.e. Robert Duvall and Beatrice Straight in Network).

Cartoons and live action kinda don't mix well -- Coburn never got that memo.

Lots of performances in Paddy Chayevsky movies are terrible and entertaining (i.e. Robert Duvall and Beatrice Straight in Network).

― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

when i was reading the beginning of this sentence i thought you were gonna say Marty and i was ready to get mad

anyway Robert Duvall's the best thing about Network! if their job is to entertain the audience and they do that, they can't be bad. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

nolte was totally effortless and charming in 'the good thief' imo, he really seemed so comfortable in the environment of the film that he was really conveying the sense of a guy who had been an expatriate for decades.

yes! he was great in it

Loved his crinkly voice in that.

This picture Ebert posted on facebook from Cannes 2006 is pretty great

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ralph fiennes had one of the more epic cameos in that too

Damn, he LOOKS like Coburn in that pic!

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The guy's got a nice head of white hair. Looks like someone we know.

His career's going one way, his rap sheet another.

I guess I'm alone in thinking Coburn's also excellent in Affliction. I found him really scary, like the mother in the old TV-movie Sybil.

Nolte looks like one of the old Hustons now

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should go here tbh
Shade Tippin'

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Gérard Depardieu?