Are you cold? I don’t know if you’d be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, I mean. Most of it doesn’t add up to much… that I could relate as a way of life that you’d approve of. I move around a lot not because I’m looking for anything, really. Because I’m getting away from things that get bad if I stay. Auspicious beginnings, you know what I mean? I’m trying to imagine your half of this conversation. My feeling is, I don’t know that if you could talk, we wouldn’t be talking. That’s pretty much how it got to be before I left. Are you all right? I don’t know what to say. Tita suggested that we try to… I don’t know. I think that she – I think that she feels we’ve got some understanding to reach. She totally denies the fact that we were never that comfortable with one another to begin with. The best I can do, is apologize. We both know I was never really that good at it, anyway. I’m sorry it didn’t work out.
Jack Nicholson’s performance in the 1970 drama Five Easy Pieces is memorable, no doubt. He delivers two really amazing monologues that couldn’t be more different. In the first, Nicholson’s Robert Dupea goes on a crazy tirade in a diner (chicken, it’s about chicken) and in the second, a guilt and grief-ravaged Dupea tries to make peace with his dying father, who is gravely ill and can’t respond. Both are incredible. Jack Nicholson: The Master of the Monologue!