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Chapter Two: The Two Jakes
boxofficeprophets.com –
2009-07-02
'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough"-- Noah Cross (John Huston) in Chinatown. There are a number of reasons why I am kicking off this week's Chapter Two with... ... Full Article
Weird Movie Trivia
associatedcontent.com –
2008-08-26
Ready for some weird movie trivia? This is the kind of movie trivia that you just can't make up. Even though some of this stuff may seem as though it cannot possibly have even the slightest tinge of truth, that... ... Full Article
Movies
nypost.com –
2007-10-15
Reviewing "The Two Jakes'' in 1990, a reviewer for Variety wrote that the flick's production history is "almost as convoluted as the plot.'' Sure enough, this underrated sequel to "Chinatown'' poses one of Hollywood's greatest unsolved mysteries. ... Full Article
My Year Of Flops Case File # 47 The Two Jakes
avclub.com –
2007-07-05
The '80s found many of the young turks that revolutionized Hollywood in the '70s desperate and adrift. A love and grief-stricken Peter Bogdanovich stopped sobbing uncontrollably while curled up in a fetal ball just long enough to direct one good... ... Full Article
Video News
ew.com –
1991-03-01
Jack Nicholson ( The Two Jakes ) and Kevin Costner ( Dances With Wolves ) are just two recent examples of movie stars becoming movie directors. ... Full Article
The Two Jakes (1990)
ew.com –
1990-08-17
In The Two Jakes , Jack Nicholson returns to the role of Los Angeles private eye Jake Gittes, and he looks...weary. This long-delayed sequel to Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) is set in 1948, 11 years after the first film. ... Full Article
The Two Jakes (R)
washingtonpost.com –
1990-08-10
Of course "The Two Jakes," the sequel to "Chinatown," had to have Jack Nicholson in it. You remember him as Jake Gittes, the private eye who dabbled with Faye-fatale Dunaway, searched for her daughter Katherine and got himself a nostril-knifing... ... Full Article
The Two Jakes (R)
washingtonpost.com –
1990-08-10
"The Two Jakes," Jack Nicholson's long-awaited sequel to "Chinatown," is about ghosts.It's a movie about remorse and loss and the plagues of memory that is itself haunted by the past. ... Full Article
Chinatown DVD (1974)
3blackchicks.com –
1974-06-21
Jake Gittes (Nicholson) is your average hardworking P.I., trying to make a living in 1930s Los Angeles. With a secretary and two assistants, he seems to be doing quite well, I guess there is no shortage of scandal in the... ... Full Article
"The Two Jakes" was filmed fifteen years after "Chinatown," but aside from the advancing ages of the returning actors, the film hardly gave any inclination that it is only half the age of the original film. ... Full Article
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