Jack Nicholson is pretty hot for a 70 year-old guy. I don’t care if he’s not all buff like Jack LaLanne (who is 93 this month by the way) there’s something sexy about his attitude, and unflattering pictures like these don’t deter me. Before I looked up his age I was under the impression he was under 60, and maybe I’m blinded by lust, but the guy is charismatic. Those eyebrows just do it for me.

So it’s kind of amusing and a little sexy to hear that Nicholson once spent three months in the nude. A new biography that’s coming out about him called “Five Easy Decades” claims he was so “obsessed with nudity” in the early 70s that he even refused to put on clothes for interviews promoting a movie he had out at the time.

When I heard that I was still under the impression that he was younger and thought “Oh he must have been in his 20s,” but he was actually in his late 30s in the early 70s so that is much more eccentric than a lot of drugs and youth can excuse. There were a lot of drugs involved though of course, Nicholson was said to be a pothead who tried to get fellow actor Larry Hagman to enjoy the herb with him.

“The book reports that in the early 70s, Jack became obsessed with nudity. He even sat buck naked for interviews for the movie ‘Drive, He Said,'” a publishing source told The Enquirer.

“The previous summer he had lived for three months as a nudist at his home – refusing to wear clothes even for producer Roger Corman.”

The bombshell bio by author Dennis McDougal – to be published in October – also says Jack turned hard-drinking buddy Larry Hagman on to marijuana.

Nicholson and Hagman were in Mexico in 1964 filming “Ensign Pulver.”

“Jack was smoking weed, and when he saw Larry knocking back pina coladas, he suggested something better,” said the publishing source.

“‘Hag, you drink too much,’ he told him. Larry – who eventually lost his liver to alcohol – didn’t think so, but Jack persisted, scored some Acapulco gold and ‘pulverized’ Hagman and the rest of the cast.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 10, 2007]

And in other recent Jack Nicholson news, he described a scene at journalist Hunter S Thompson’s house when he got spooked by Thompson waving a gun around and jumped out a window. He said “One of the first times I met him, he pulled out a gun in the middle of a house. Me and a friend of mine jumped out the window.” [Holymoly.co.uk]

I wonder if he was just paranoid from all the weed and if he tucked it before he went out the window.

There’s also another claim in that upcoming biography that Nicholson is hiding a handicapped son, a story he denies. According to Wikipedia, he has five children by four different women, and is reported to have slept with 2,000 different women.