Jack Nicholson (1973), "Terms of Endearment" (1983), "As Good as It Gets" (1997), "About Schmidt" (2002), and "The Bucket List" (2007); the neo-noir mystery "Chinatown" (1974); the horror film "The Shining" (1980); the biopic "Reds" (1981); the fantasy comedy "The Witches of Eastwick" (1987); the superhero film "Batman" (1989) as the Joker; the legal drama "A Few Good Men" (1992); the romantic horror film "Wolf" (1994); the science fiction comedy "Mars Attacks!" (1996); the comedy "Anger Management" (2003); the romantic comedy "Something's Gotta Give" (2003); and the crime drama "The Departed" (2006). Nicholson has not acted in a film since "How Do
Jack Nicholson the past, like Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Cagney". On the set, Nicholson always appeared in character, and if Kubrick felt confident that he knew his lines well enough, he encouraged him to improvise and go beyond the script. For example, Nicholson improvised his now famous "Here's Johnny!" line, along with the scene in which he's sitting at the typewriter and unleashes his anger upon his wife after she discovers he has gone insane when she looks at his writing ("all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" typed endlessly). There were also extensive takes of scenes, due to