Michael Douglas Shares a Great Jack Nicholson "Cuckoo's Nest" Story

Michael Douglas Shares a Great Jack Nicholson "Cuckoo's Nest" Story | The Rich Eisen Show

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@francinecorry633 Жыл бұрын

Nicholson makes any producer look like a genius.

@I_Fight_Instacart 6 ай бұрын

Ah yes... The Golden Bear! 🐻

@JustMe-vk4fn Жыл бұрын

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest was an excellent book too. They created a great movie from it.

@adrianpoesiat Жыл бұрын

Great direction and actors. Especially the interplay between Louise Fletcher (nurse Ratched) and Jack Nicholson. Brilliant

@alexshatner3907 16 күн бұрын

Nurse Ratchet? I prefer Joe socket

@michaelknapp8961 2 жыл бұрын

In 1957 my dad was a 21 year old college student at Willamette University which was just down the street from the Oregon state mental hospital. He got a night job at the hospital as an orderly. If you remember the big day room where a lot of the scenes were shot, that’s the room my dad worked in most of the time. He got a kick seeing the hospital in the film.

@matthewclay6535 Жыл бұрын

Very cool story about your Dad!! Nice!!

@I_Fight_Instacart 6 ай бұрын

I was a paid extra in _Mrs. Winterbourne_ but that movie stinks.

@bcask61 3 жыл бұрын

He looks more like his dad as he gets older.

@williamdillard5060 3 жыл бұрын

A chip off the great actor's block. Just like his Dad.

@datatsushi2016 3 жыл бұрын

Most people do actually. If you pay attention.

@tenparab 3 жыл бұрын

We all do.

@buckeyechuck4064 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing.

@kimakotrotman6860 2 жыл бұрын

What about late granddad?

@iambiggus 3 жыл бұрын

The one time you can say 'Everyone around me is crazy!' and it's true.

@SonnyGTA 3 жыл бұрын

I never knew Michael had something to do with that movie!!

@num1sooner 3 жыл бұрын

He produced a won an Oscar, he bought the play off Broadway

@tenparab 3 жыл бұрын

Producer

@Xiaolongbaokid16 2 жыл бұрын

He produced it.

@deanpd3402 2 жыл бұрын

Hid Dad was involved with the play which introduced Michael to the whole idea of film producing it.

@ericjohn8466 2 жыл бұрын

His Dad actually bought the rights to the script. Kesey wasn't happy with the movie. Or what he had heard of it; claiming he never seen it but disliked what he knew of it.

@fluidjazz Жыл бұрын

Wow! I never knew he produced this! One of my favorite films, I also went to a theatre production of the film back in the 80's.

@df4196 4 жыл бұрын

Michael Douglas doesn’t get enough credit for producing Cuckoo’s Nest. His father Kirk Douglas owned the rights to make the film for years with the intention of playing the McMurphy role. Kirk even sent the book to Milos Forman to get him to direct. But the Czech censors intercepted the book and Milos never knew it was coming. It was after Kirk became too old for the role that Michael Douglas asked to take a stab at getting the film made and the first director he asked was coincidentally Milos Forman. The stars were all aligned for this film. And Michael Douglas won an Oscar when the film got Best Picture.

@HoldenNY22 2 жыл бұрын

I am surprised they never remade the Movie. I think if they remade the Movie now- It would be Dr. Ratched, not Nurse Ratched. It was very unuusal back in the late 1950's or early 1960's to have a Female Pschiatrist- now not ususual at all. I also think they would accentualte the Gender themes or as I might call it- the MRA themes which are in both the Book and Movie. When Men have problems in Society and/or they are jsut "weak" for whatever reason- ythey are in real trouble. I also think MIchael Douglas might have made an interesting RPM.

@spicesmuggler2452 2 жыл бұрын

great summary, thank you

@frogger1952 Жыл бұрын

Your story was more interesting than Michael's story.

@ragheadand420roll Жыл бұрын

Thx for summarizing the wikipedia page

@rares_21 Жыл бұрын

A very interesting information that I didn.t now, appreciate it!

@tomsinsky5548 2 жыл бұрын

Cockoo's Nest is one of the best American movies ever made.

@jackwilloughby239 Жыл бұрын

I've watched Cuckoo's Nest quite a few times over the years and every time it's been a "Wake Up Call". These people exist (Nurse Ratched, Billy & Mr. Martini for instance) and they keep entering my life at unexpected moments which I never see coming and still don't know how to deal with. They are all sort of Misfit Archetypes.

@jacomans9078 3 жыл бұрын

Always liked him as an actor, great acting family, the slur may be from surgery, ....talented family, loved his Dad in Spartacus, one of his best roles.

@brainscott8198 3 жыл бұрын

"Don't squeeze the ball too hard, Chief. You'll crush all the air out of it..."

@tomgio1 4 жыл бұрын

For all the “he’s pickled” comments: he had medical operations/procedures for oral cancer, and it has affected his speech to some degree. Watch the great show he’s on now (with equally brilliant Alan Arkin), “The Kominsky Method,” and you can hear the same pattern occasionally. IMHO, it doesn’t take away from his performance at all.

@Theomite 4 жыл бұрын

Also doesn't change the fact that he got oral cancer from eating out Catherine Zeta-Jones. Regularly. Greatest cancer origin story ever.

@djquinn11 4 жыл бұрын

Theomite : He did. say that’s how he got it too...

@toddgaak422 3 жыл бұрын

@@Theomite Worth it!

@killemall69 3 жыл бұрын

@@Theomite norm McDonald said the same thing

@zachgates7491 Жыл бұрын

@@killemall69 and Gilbert gottfried

@Metalcomedienne 5 жыл бұрын

Still my favorite movies ever.

@geekay1349 5 жыл бұрын

love the stories behind the great films

@SohamShivoham 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best Hollywood movies ever made

@MapleSyrupPoet 5 жыл бұрын

Michael looks great...Rich has a great voice...take care of those pipes Rich 😎

@davidevans3175 4 жыл бұрын

His half-brother Eric was in an institution in Hartford, CT at the time the film was being made. The Institute of Living. Eric was released the day the film was released.

@ferdtothefuture3307 Жыл бұрын

I never knew this. Michael Douglas is also a legend. The Game, and Falling Down are some of my all time favorites.

@I_Fight_Instacart 6 ай бұрын

I just saw The Game for the first time the other night. I didn't like it. Falling Down is a different story.

@sneskokosanji3336 4 жыл бұрын

Favorite actor also his movies like them all very much.Sorry for his loss.I have seen many movies of his dad .

@txmetalhead82xk 3 жыл бұрын

Kirk Douglas and I share the same birthday! Something I am very honored by. May He Forever Rest in Peace.

@hyena131 Жыл бұрын

txmetalhead82xk Magnificent lame to fame!!

@gadaffi1000 11 ай бұрын

Shared possibly with 10 million others. Well done! You must have achieved a lot in life is this is what you got.

@yenomeerf 5 жыл бұрын

Michael Douglas looks incredible.

@jothegreek 5 жыл бұрын

He is not that old

@PharaoahMonk 5 жыл бұрын

so are you!:)

@KB-yf3wt 4 жыл бұрын

@@jothegreek I mean, 75 is pretty old.

@ErikBreivik 3 жыл бұрын

I think he is now the real Jewel of the Nile.

@niteporter 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely classic great movie. My late father's father movie.

@kiki13121984 Жыл бұрын

It's crazy how he looks more and more like his father as the years go by...

@Lora-G 7 ай бұрын

Had the exact same thought😅

@Acarrdi 6 ай бұрын

Whats crazy about it?

@DMS198526 18 күн бұрын

My favourite film of all time. The books brilliant as well. 🖤

@commanderkeen3787 2 жыл бұрын

Kirk Douglas wrote in his autobiography that he was extremely angry that Michael wanted to Jack Nicholson to play the lead. Because Kirk had bought the script for himself to star in, as a comeback. He had been in the lead in the off Broadway play, which flopped

@Robsav-yx6vi 3 жыл бұрын

Love this guy . Great actor

@davidevans3175 5 жыл бұрын

And, his half brother Eric was in the Institute of Living, a psych hospital in Hartford, CT at the time the film was being made. Eric was released the day the film opened. I know because I was there and Eric was a friend. Kirk would visit now and then, but not Michael as far as I know. But I always wondered if there wasn't at least some feedback that got to Michael about life at a psych hospital, or, that Eric was there purely on a research mission for Michael though that's unlikely since they didn't get along at all.

@jer1er Жыл бұрын

I wonder if you knew my uncle too because he was also a patient there in the mid-70s and then lived in Hartford until about 1980. His name was Martin Malter. Or, Marty.

@sas6561 Жыл бұрын

The man still has leading man looks!!!

@jackdaniels2905 24 күн бұрын

Jack was so charismatic in that movie (he's obviously charismatic in all his movies, but that one stands out).

@suat365 5 жыл бұрын

Still good looking at his age. And a great actor too

@themadafaka6839 2 жыл бұрын

The fact that he & Jack NEVER once acted in a movie together after cuckoo's nest, especially in the 80's, once Michael's become more established as a movie actor himself is just crazy...

@brianb2210 Жыл бұрын

Michael Douglas didn't act in this movie. He produced it.

@seanjoyce7039 Жыл бұрын

Interestingly enough, Danny DeVito is sort of the linchpin here, doing 3 movies each with both guys...and it all started here.

@Starkardur 4 жыл бұрын

This basiclaly debunks the myth that Jack went full method in his performance (which is usually done by fans who don't have clue).

@wanabiyu8380 3 жыл бұрын

Being a method actor doesn't mean you don't stop acting between takes.

@immanuelcunt7296 2 жыл бұрын

You don't know what method acting is, huh? Nicholson was a very diligent method actor. But staying in character isn't the definition of method acting, it's only one tool from that category.

@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347 5 жыл бұрын

Wow!!!!! What a incredible Jack story! Another double Mr Douglas?

@gmb858 5 жыл бұрын

he sounds a little pickled. Or, it may have been all that cunning lingual activity that caused the tongue cancer. Notice Catherine threw him out of the house after that.

@chrishouston3566 4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha yes!

@garylivingston9052 Жыл бұрын

Danny Devito is great in that film also, He and Michael have been working together a long time.

@justinofeldt1515 2 жыл бұрын

One flew over the cuckoos nest is one of my favorite movies 😃

@mctube44 2 жыл бұрын

,......with Danny DeVito playing black jack in the movie saying....."hit me. hit me" to a dealing Nicholson when he shows 21....hilarious!

@peterpiper831 Жыл бұрын

@@mctube44 Love DeVito's expressions when Mac shows him the girlie playing cards.

@amirkazemi2517 3 жыл бұрын

he's starting to sound like his dad Kirk Douglas with the slight slurs.....amazing acting family

@robertthomson5485 3 жыл бұрын

It may be the result of his throat cancer treatment. But he looks pretty good.

@williamdillard5060 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that exact thing. Both great actors in their own right.

@daveronald7788 3 жыл бұрын

Throat cancer

@mikek5958 3 жыл бұрын

It's from the radiation treatments to his head and neck. It destroys the cancer but it also causes damage to your tongue, palate, salivary glands, etc.

@amirkazemi2517 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikek5958 too much cunniligus. i guess i should stop

@hatter9006 4 жыл бұрын

He and his beautiful wife have the same birthday. Different years, of course.

@CapraDemon101 3 жыл бұрын

My birthday also, and Will Smiths too

@Ditka-89 3 жыл бұрын

About 50 years apart

@razorbeard6970 3 жыл бұрын

Same scenario with my parents. They have a mental understanding and acceptance of each other that stumps me.

@someoneelse.2252 6 ай бұрын

I'm amazed that Michael Douglas looks exactly like Michael Douglas.

@jamesdemetro4184 3 жыл бұрын

I first saw him in the movie Romancing the stone.. Good movie

@userjeffe 5 жыл бұрын

That was an incredible story about Jack. Bravo Mike!

@aljabirxiju9475 Жыл бұрын

..incredible?...i wouldnt go that far.

@emilywalker3352 Жыл бұрын

Everyone has a Jack Nicholson story! 👍🏻

@khizarfarooq6778 5 жыл бұрын

Guess jack would've had a real problem with Daniel Day-Lewis 🤣🤣

@michaelryan2925 3 жыл бұрын

I drink your MILKSHAKE! I DRINK IT UP!!

@rossdiamondthief6627 3 жыл бұрын

Or Robert De Niro

@johnhuxley165 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelryan2925 DRAAAAAAAAAINAAAAAGE!!!!!!

@michaelryan2925 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnhuxley165 🤣🤣🤣

@shanewidowski7854 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelryan2925 lmao

@TheQuadrum 3 жыл бұрын

Just noticed just how much Michael Douglas’s voice sounds like Larry Fine from the 3 stooges

@jer1er Жыл бұрын

Another strange fact is that Michael Douglas and Danny Devito were friends and roommates in NYC when they were just starting out. That's why Devito ended up in the film which was his big break.

@THEJIG-IS-UP 5 жыл бұрын

Looking more like his dad everyday. Sounding like Val Kilmer

@davidlean1060 5 жыл бұрын

I was about to say. It was a resemblance when he was younger, but now he is the image of his old man!

@tiadaid 5 жыл бұрын

Both him and Val had oral cancer, don't they?

@carlosalomar7877 5 жыл бұрын

@@tiadaid Michael is doing fine now but Val is still fighting!....

@RonWylie-gk5lc 5 жыл бұрын

He is very like his dad here, more than I have ever seen

@ancietman 5 жыл бұрын

Just what I was thinking.

@PiglipsMaximus Жыл бұрын

First book I ever enjoyed and first movie I loved from that

@flormariarennerstam4886 5 жыл бұрын

Best movie ever!

@pillettadoinswartsh4974 4 жыл бұрын

I recommend reading Kesey's book too. It is narrated by "Chief" Bromden.

@kevinbaird7277 4 жыл бұрын

The book is excellent also, different perspective than the movie, both excellent, when Kesy left college he took the place of a friend on a medical trial as he cash strapped, only snag, it was a secret CIA LSD trial, bastards.

@josephballerini3730 4 жыл бұрын

I also liked that the chief was an unreliable narrator. Kesey wrote him as a man with mental illness. Made the book very interesting to read.

@Cruisentom 4 жыл бұрын

Whatever u say Jack nailed it

@frogger1952 Жыл бұрын

The money for the movie came from Saul Zaentz who owned an obscure SF record label, Fantasy. Until, that is, he signed Creedence Clearwater Revival and that made Zaentz a millionaire many times over. So whenever you see this movie, remember it was all made possible by John Fogerty and his bandmates.

@alexscott730 5 жыл бұрын

Yea...Really GREAT Jack Nicolson story....🤔

@basitk12 3 жыл бұрын

Michael loved jack since the beginning

@bigpants6121 2 жыл бұрын

Great hair for an old fella. Some of his age dye their hair black! More from him please.

@felixwatkins958 Жыл бұрын

I like Kirk Douglas's short speech about Cuckoo's Nest at Michael's AFI tribute. Very funny.

@juerv1 2 жыл бұрын

This man has a great future as a Kirk Douglas Double!

@zu1875lu Жыл бұрын

You know I actually thought it was him for a moment

@wayne8276 2 жыл бұрын

Rich has to do a interview with Jack .

@MapleSyrupPoet Жыл бұрын

The novel was great 👍 😅

@ancietman 5 жыл бұрын

Mid seventies epic time for great films Jaws, Towering Inferno, Cuckoos Nest, Death Wish and many more.

@eiresaoirse3258 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah your right I could mention another 10 classics from that era aswell....

@ianbauer4703 4 жыл бұрын

Taxi Driver, Rocky, The Man Who Skied Down Everest, and a little number called Star Wars!

@ajsky1066 4 жыл бұрын

@@ianbauer4703 Don't forget Superman!

@ianbauer4703 4 жыл бұрын

@@ajsky1066 Richard Donner's Superman was great too!!

@ovathere93 4 жыл бұрын

Star Wars.

@bestoutcomes 4 жыл бұрын

Michael Douglas produced this movie after being sold the rights from the movie script's owner -- namely, Kirk Douglas, his father. I find it interesting the father SOLD the rights to his son, rather than just giving his son the rights. Regardless, this movie is among my favorites. Not just the McMurphy character but the Chief and the others too.

@bradleybrown8399 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he was trying to make back the money he paid for it.

@hd-xc2lz 2 жыл бұрын

Sold for a real or symbolic ($1) number?

@jsmall10671 7 ай бұрын

From a Kirk Douglas interview: 'Finally, I went into partnership with my son, Michael, and we were able to find somebody outside of the industry to put up the money and we made a little picture that I never predicted would be a hit. So it did over $200 million! Nobody knows what will really be successful.” My guess is if he 'sold' it to Michael it was a nominal sum.

@elizabethleninski4550 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet looking and magnificent from start until now 🥰

@noelio67 4 жыл бұрын

The spit of his father, Kirk ......RIP to Kirk....103 yes....great age

@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE 4 жыл бұрын

He does. At first I thought he was Kirk.

@oldcop18 3 жыл бұрын

Great movie!

@JustynneDeathWho Жыл бұрын

Still a awesome movie michael douglas

@PM2024- 3 жыл бұрын

Danny Devito was amazing too 🎥

@dannygitmo 3 жыл бұрын

Set up for and accomplished authenticity...success in storytelling

@zac1672 10 ай бұрын

“They don’t stop for lunch!” 😂

@woodyskip...cli-mate-talk424 5 ай бұрын

That was great to see

@rosswood5049 2 жыл бұрын

My God he is morphing into his dad which is a good thing actually

@kevinbaird7277 4 жыл бұрын

Best movie trivia, what movie gave Micheal Douglas his first Oscar, wrong, it was one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

@wendelldallas7572 3 жыл бұрын

Man, this guy was amazing in Paths of Glory!

@aaronlewis8668 4 жыл бұрын

Very good movie

@GoodMrDawes Жыл бұрын

What a Movie

@geargeekpdx3566 7 ай бұрын

Ken Kesey who wrote the novel hosts the Oregon Country Fair every year on the giant farm he owns

@marissabones 4 жыл бұрын

Just got too love Jack

@marissabones 3 жыл бұрын

@@jacknicholson5863I would like a reverse scam, where I'm the one getting money

@basketofpuppys 2 ай бұрын

great movie i didnt know Michael Douglas was invoilved in that movie

@yaimavol 3 жыл бұрын

There are rumors there is a tunnel that goes from the Playboy Mansion straight to Jack's house.

@oregonguy13 3 жыл бұрын

Love how he pronounced Oregon right. 👍🏼

@johnkonstantine9115 2 жыл бұрын

it's pronounced C-R-A-Z-Y.

@josemireles852 3 жыл бұрын

HAD NO IDEA MR. DOUGLAS HAD A HAND IN THE MAKING OF THIS FILM

@253jacksonrhoads1 3 жыл бұрын

His father, Kirk, once played in the Broadway version of Cuckoo, prior to the film being made.

@patrickhays3864 3 жыл бұрын

He was a producer if memory serves me correctly

@Joseph1NJ 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, as he ages he looks more and more like his father.

@writerconsidered 7 ай бұрын

I had no idea Micheal Douglas produced the Cookoo's nest.

@boomerang8909 Жыл бұрын

1:27 Michael Douglas after Jack said they're nuts: You think?!

@AS-ge6xc 5 жыл бұрын

No dia 09 de dezembro de 2019 o pai dele faz 103 anos !!!

@harrynut3044 4 жыл бұрын

I think his best movie is "Romancing the stone".

@chipdamutt108 3 жыл бұрын

I read about that in a Playboy interview with Michael many years agi

@chadcollins6068 9 ай бұрын

He told that wrong. What Jack really said was "I can't tell who's a patient and who's an actor in there it's driving me crazy!".

@edwinombac 5 жыл бұрын

Who’s Rich Eisen?!?!

@lilybond6485 2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great story !

@mortb9 2 жыл бұрын

What did you find great about it?

@bySterling 3 жыл бұрын

Still amazing hair!

@terrypeckham4744 7 ай бұрын

My older sister Rebecca had epilepsy and in the early 60s she was sent to Dammish hospital in Salem, Ore. where this was filmed. She was maybe 12 or 13 and she made friends with a guy named Jack who had taken so much LSD he went crazy. And another maybe 40 year old man who could only speak if he was strumming his guitar. I guess that's how they handled epileptic children in those days