As Good as It Gets As Good as It Gets As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James L. Brooks. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic and obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist. The screenplay was written by Mark Andrus and Brooks. The paintings were created for the film by New York artist Billy Sullivan. Nicholson and Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making "As Good As It Gets" the most recent film to win both of
Tonight Starring Jack Paar Tonight Starring Jack Paar Tonight Starring Jack Paar (in later seasons The Jack Paar Tonight Show) is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under the "Tonight Show" franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B (formerly the home of Milton Berle's "Texaco Star Theater" series) inside the RCA Building (now called the Comcast Building) in New York City. The same studio would also host early episodes of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon".