Jack Nicholson's Fall PR Assignment?

As we all know, Jack Nicholson likes to keep his media mystique at full twinkle by steering clear of talk shows, Hollywood red carpet interviews and all but the rarest of print profile pieces. Still, it’s surprising to find the actor absent from the upcoming feature documentary Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction.

The 86-year-old Stanton is one of Nicholson’s oldest and dearest friends, right up there with Robert Evans and Warren Beatty. Given that the movie’s two show-stopping scenes are casual filmed conversations between Stanton and repeat collaborators David Lynch and Kris Kristofferson, we wondered what efforts were made to secure Jack’s participation.

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