763- Meeting Jack Nicholson with Writer Robert David Crane
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Robert David Crane (Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder, My Life As A Mankiewicz) was going to film school at USC when he and a friend decided to contact Jack Nicholson and ask him for an interview. To their shock and amazement, Jack agreed. Listen to this Hollywood tale about kids meeting a massive star and writing a book about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Storyworthy. Today on the show, author Robert David Crane talks about meeting Jack Nicholson. |
| 0:10.4 | Jack came down the stairs wearing a navy blue bathrobe with a bat pin on the lapel. |
| 0:17.3 | Bat pin. This is 1972. He might have just gotten out of bed, although it was well past lunchtime. |
| 0:24.2 | As I discovered over the next several hours spent talking about film, Jack wasn't wearing |
| 0:29.7 | anything under that robe as he inadvertently flashed me a couple of times. |
| 0:34.9 | After finally switching off the tape recorder, we took a few commemorative |
| 0:39.2 | photos for our benefit, you know, Chris and me, not Jacks, and left the house on cloud 99. |
| 0:47.4 | Today on the show, author Robert David Crane talks about meeting Jack Nicholson. Stay close. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi, it's Robert Crane, and you're listening to Storyworthy. |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:17.3 | Whether you're a longtime fan of the show or a new listener, welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 1:22.4 | Now, I hope you guys enjoyed the show last week with writer, author, and producer Bruce Ferber. |
| 1:28.0 | Bruce Ferber is a hell of an accomplished man. |
| 1:31.8 | He was the showrunner on Home Improvement, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and many, many other |
| 1:37.8 | incredible sitcoms. |
| 1:39.8 | And then he goes on to become an author. |
| 1:42.4 | And he's actually writing fiction now. |
| 1:44.4 | And he has a wonderful new book out called I Buried Paul. |
| 1:47.1 | So we talked about that last week. |
| 1:49.1 | And then we also talked about Bruce's school project that he made in elementary school where he needed cotton. |
| 1:58.3 | And he was a little boy, couldn't find the cotton. |
| 2:04.8 | And what he found was not supposed to be used for crafts. |
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