Actor Jack Nicholson is also a film director, producer, and writer.He has been
nominated for Academy Awards 12 times. He has won the Academy Award for
Best Actor twice, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and for As Good
as it Gets (1997). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the
1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for the most acting
wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for the most acting
wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy
Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to
2000s (the other one being Michael Caine). In 1994, he became one of the
youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement
Award. Nicholson’s first big acting break came in 1969 with the Peter Fonda
and Dennis Hopper film Easy Rider.

Pictured left to right: Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper
from Easy Rider

Nicholson in The Shining (1980)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Jarre, who wrote the screenplays for the movies
Rambo: First Blood Part ll (1985), Glory (1989), and Tombstone (1993), has
died at the age of 56. His aunt, Patty Briley Bean, told the Los Angeles Times
that Jarre died unexpectedly of heart failure on Sunday, April 3 at his Santa
Monica home.  

Good Friday is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating
the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvery. The holiday is observed
during Holy Week on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with
the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday,
or Easter Friday.

Earth Day is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s
natural environment. It was founded in 1970 by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson
of Wisconsin (below). While this first Earth Day was focused on environmental
issues in the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was
the original national coordinator in 1970, took it to the international level in 1990
and organized events in 141 nations. Earth Day is now coordinated globally and
is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year. In 2009, the United Nations designated April 22 International Mother Earth Day.

 
U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson

 
Cleaning up on the first Earth Day

‘Moondog’ Alan Freed