Jack Nicholson screen characters, someone who is "snarly, dumb, smart, noble, rascally—all the parts of 'Jack'" Nicholson went on to win his next Academy Award for Best Actor in the romantic comedy, "As Good as It Gets" (1997), his third film directed by James L. Brooks. He played Melvin Udall, a "wickedly funny", mean-spirited, obsessive-compulsive novelist. "I'm a studio Method actor", he said. "So I was prone to give some kind of clinical presentation of the disorder." His Oscar was matched with the Academy Award for Best Actress for Helen Hunt, who played a Manhattan wisecracking, single-mother waitress drawn into a love/hate
Mr. Jack wife or the boyfriends of his victims, he generally concludes that it was all worth it. On a whole he is a popular figure among less conservative characters in his universe: he is often seen as the jovial life of the party, charming to women and admired by men. "Mr. Jack", while never as popular as "Little Jimmy", probably also because of its erratic appearances, still had a considerable influence. One clear derivative was "Mr. George" by Harold Knerr, the second author of the "Katzenjammer Kids". Mr. Jack Mr. Jack was an American comic strip by Jimmy Swinnerton which ran