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30th British Academy Film Awards


The 30th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1977, honoured the best films of 1976. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Louise Fletcher in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Brad Dourif in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver" and "Bugsy Malone" Miloš Forman for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Alan Parker for "Bugsy
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of behaviorism and a tribute to individualistic principles. It was adapted into the Broadway (and later off-Broadway) play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Dale Wasserman in 1963. Bo Goldman adapted the novel into a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman, which won five Academy Awards
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American tragicomedy film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey and the play version adapted from the novel by Dale Wasserman. The film stars Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a new patient at a mental institution, and features a supporting cast of Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Will Sampson,  Sydney Lassick, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Lloyd in their film debuts. Filming began in January
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in vegetative states. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is one of America's most challenged and banned novels. The novel was adapted into a 1963 play, starring Kirk Douglas (who purchased the rights to produce it for the stage and motion pictures) as McMurphy and Gene Wilder as Billy Bibbit. A film adaptation, starring Jack Nicholson, and co-produced by Michael Douglas was released in 1975. The film won five Academy Awards. The characters of Nurse Ratched and Chief Bromden appear as recurring characters in
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Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the fourth album released by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 1993. It is the band's only release as a trio, after the departure of Howard Levy but before the arrival of Jeff Coffin. In his Allmusic review, music critic Dan Cross wrote of the album "The Flecktones have stuck with the formula that made their previous records successful: complex, tight grooves wrapped in a very musical, user-friendly package. The Flecktones still suffer from the departure of keyboardist
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by both Nurse Ratched and his mother. The title of the book is a line from a nursery rhyme: poem style="margin-left:2em;" Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn, Apple seed and apple thorn, Wire, briar, limber lock Three geese in a flock One flew East One flew West And one flew over the cuckoo's nest /poem Chief Bromden's grandmother sang a version of this song to him when he was a child, a fact revealed in the story when the Chief received yet another ECT treatment after
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Broadway production in 2001 with Gary Sinise as McMurphy. The film version "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was released in 1975 was based on the novel, but not on the play. DeVito reprised his stage role in the film. The 1963–64 Broadway production starred Kirk Douglas as Randle Patrick McMurphy, Gene Wilder as Billy Bibbit, William Daniels as Harding, Ed Ames as "Chief" Bromden, and Joan Tetzel as Nurse Ratched. Douglas retained the rights to make a film version of "One Flew Over the
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1988, the Playhouse Theatre was the site for the first London production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The play was brought to the London stage by Cuckoo Productions, formed by Diane Hilton, Karin Parnaby, and Judy Kershaw. They raised £100,000 in 24 hours to bring the play to the London theatre. In 2001, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company produced a Broadway revival, winning the Tony Award for Best Play Revival. This production was directed by Terry Kinney and starred Gary Sinise, Amy Morton,
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Cuckoo's Nest (nightclub)


Cuckoo's Nest (1976–1981) was a nightclub that was located at 1714 Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, California. The club was founded in 1976 by Jerry Roach, a former bar owner who had turned to selling real-estate, after receiving the property from a client as a commission payment. A local Costa Mesa bar that was already in operation was named Jaws, after the film, and Roach took inspiration from this and named his new venture after "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", the big box
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It Happened One Night


films have achieved this feat: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1975 and "The Silence of the Lambs" in 1991. "It Happened One Night" was also the last film to win both lead acting Academy Awards until "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1975. On December 15, 1996, Gable's Oscar was auctioned off to Steven Spielberg for $607,500; Spielberg promptly donated the statuette to the Motion Picture Academy. On June 9 of the following year, Colbert's Oscar
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1975 and lasted three months, taking place on location in Salem, Oregon, and the surrounding area, as well as on the Oregon coast. The producers decided to shoot the film in the Oregon State Hospital, an actual mental hospital, as this was also the setting of the novel. Considered by some to be one of the greatest films ever made, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is No. 33 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. The film was the second
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" rating at Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 9/10. Its consensus states: "The onscreen battle between Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher serves as a personal microcosm of the culture wars of the 1970s – and testament to the director's vision that the film retains its power more than three decades later." "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has been regarded as one of the greatest American films. Ken Kesey participated in the early stages of script development, but withdrew after creative differences with the producers over
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Richard Chew


Oscar-nominated for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest". He also won British Oscars (BAFTA) as co-editor on both "The Conversation" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest". His work on "Shanghai Noon" was nominated for Best Feature Comedy by American Cinema Editors. At various times throughout his editing career, Chew has taught and lectured with the goal of enhancing audience appreciation for the cinema arts. For over thirty years, he has appeared at art schools and colleges,
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being interviewed while hiding from the law. However, Forman said he had terminated Wexler's services over artistic differences. Both Wexler and Butler received Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", though Wexler said there was "only about a minute or two minutes in that film I didn't shoot". According to Butler, Nicholson refused to speak to Forman: "...[Jack] never talked to Miloš at all, he only talked to me". The production went over
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Dale Wasserman


": It is not. It is a completely original work that uses scenes from "Don Quixote" to illuminate Miguel Cervantes' life. Don Quixote was Cervantes' Man of La Mancha; it was Cervantes himself who was Dale Wasserman's Man of La Mancha. "Man of La Mancha" ran for five years on Broadway and continues worldwide in more than 30 languages. Dale Wasserman adapted Ken Kesey's novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" into a play also titled "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
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Miloš Forman


Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and "Amadeus" (1984) acquired particular renown, and both gained him an Academy Award for Best Director. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was the second film to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Leading Role, Actress in Leading Role, Director, and Screenplay) after "It Happened One Night" in 1934—an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 by "The Silence of the Lambs". Forman was also nominated for a
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play)


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1963) is a play based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel of the same name. Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation, with music by Teiji Ito, made its Broadway preview on November 12, 1963, its premiere on November 13, and ran until January 25, 1964 for a total of one preview and 82 performances. Since then, the play has had two revivals: first off-Broadway in 1971, directed by Lee Sankowich with Danny DeVito as Martini, then as a
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panel that McMurphy could not lift earlier, throwing it through a window and escaping the hospital. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was written in 1959 and published in 1962 in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement and deep changes to the way psychology and psychiatry were being approached in America. The 1960s began the controversial movement towards deinstitutionalization, an act that would have affected the characters in Kesey's novel. The novel is a direct product of Kesey's time working the graveyard shift as an orderly at a mental
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the initial budget of $2 million and over-schedule, but Zaentz, who was personally financing the movie, was able to come up with the difference by borrowing against his company, Fantasy Records. The total production budget came to $4.4 million. The film was met with heavy critical acclaim; Roger Ebert said: Ebert would later put the film on his "Great Movies" list. A.D. Murphy of "Variety" wrote a mixed review as well, as did Vincent Canby: Writing in "The New York
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Cuckoo's Nest" for a decade, but was unable to find a studio willing to make it with him. Eventually, he gave the rights to his son Michael, who succeeded in getting the film produced. At that time, Kirk Douglas was deemed too old for the role of McMurphy, and the role was given to Jack Nicholson. In 1982 Greg Hersov directed a production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Jonathan Hackett as Randle McMurphy, Linda Marlowe as Nurse Ratched and Tim McInnerny as Billy Bibbitt. In April
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Forman wrote in 2012: "To me, [the story] was not just literature, but real life, the life I lived in Czechoslovakia from my birth in 1932 until 1968. The Communist Party was my Nurse Ratched, telling me what I could and could not do; what I was or was not allowed to say; where I was and was not allowed to go; even who I was and was not". Zaentz, a voracious reader, felt an affinity with Kesey, and so after Hauben's
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List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners


respectively appeared in Best Picture Oscar winners "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "Annie Hall" (1977) and "Crash" (2005); one of the show's co-creators, James L. Brooks, wrote, produced and directed Best Picture Oscar winner "Terms of Endearment" (1983). Neither Brad Dourif nor Christopher Lee appeared in the theatrical release of "" (2003). However, deleted scenes including Dourif and Lee
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Bounce Streetdance Company


Bounce as judges and choreographers. At the same time they started to prepare for the new show "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". Before the show people had wondering how it would be possible to tell this story with dance. This had been the most challenging they ever had created. But the audiences had understood the story through pure hiphop. The danceshow had almost as many shows as The Score and was rewarded with SvD Opera-Prize. In 2008 Bounce continued to perform with "One Flew Over the Cuckoo
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Bo Goldman


screenwriter who won the Academy Award for "All the President's Men" the year after Bo won for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". He attended Princeton University where he wrote, produced, composed the lyrics and was president of the famed Princeton Triangle Club, a proving ground for F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Stewart and director Joshua Logan. His 1953 production, "Ham 'n Legs", was presented on The Ed Sullivan Show – the first Triangle production ever to appear on National Television. Upon graduation
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Saul Zaentz


Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and "Amadeus" (1984)—as well as for "The English Patient" (1996), directed by Anthony Minghella. In the early 1970s he saw the stage adaptation of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" at a theatre in the Jackson Square area of San Francisco. Zaentz co-produced the film adaptation with actor Michael Douglas. The film won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, which Zaentz and Douglas shared. This award sweep had not been experienced in 41
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casting and narrative point of view; ultimately he filed suit against the production and won a settlement. Kesey himself claimed never to have seen the movie, but said he disliked what he knew of it, a fact confirmed by Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote, "The first time I heard this story, it was through the movie starring Jack Nicholson. A movie that Kesey once told me he disliked." In 1993, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of
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Kristina Wong


her senior project at UCLA; and Fannie Wong, the badly behaved former second runner-up at Miss Chinatown character. It also describes in detail her more recent one-woman shows: "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest", a tour about the high rates of depression and suicide among Asian American women, and "Cat Lady", the show resulting from the "Cuckoo's Nest" tour that made her cat so distraught that he peed all over her apartment. In October 2014, Wong was featured in
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Robert N. Zagone


journalist Ben Fong-Torres. "Inside the Cuckoo's Nest" (1976) br Directorbr This groundbreaking PBS documentary was shot at the Oregon State Mental Hospital in Salem, Oregon, the same hospital used in the Academy Award-winning feature film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The film included a graphic sequence that showed the preparation, the actual process, and the aftermath of an electroshock treatment for a patient. The sequence was compared to footage from the feature film with Jack Nicholson receiving electroshock therapy.
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's Nest" (1962) and "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964). (Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker supplied the image.) Other benefactors for the project include Bob Weir, Paul Newman (who starred in the 1971 film adaptation of "Sometimes a Great Notion") and Michael Douglas (who produced the 1975 film version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"). In 2005, Zane Kesey asked a friend, Matthew Rick, also known as Shady Backflash, to put on
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Bill Butler (cinematographer)


Wexler) and a BAFTA Film Award for his work in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and has won Primetime Emmy Awards for "Raid on Entebbe" (1977) and "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1984). On February 16, 2003, Butler received the American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award. His memorable and influential work on "Jaws" is one of the many reasons the ASC honored him with the award, and Spielberg wrote a letter to Butler acknowledging his award which
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Paul Jenkins (actor)


he portrayed a different criminal in each of his three appearances in "The Rockford Files". Jenkins had moderate success with his stage career, which he initially planned to pursue instead of a film or television career. He performed in productions of "The Great White Hope" and had a starring role as McMurphy in a 1970 off-"Broadway" tour of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Jenkins also co-wrote and starred in a one-man show, called "A Journey for Eden," based on
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P. J. Pesce


recording engineer, a film instructor at Columbia, UCLA, and USC, and as a groom at Calder Racetrack. He studied editing with Ralph Rosenblum ("Annie Hall", "The Pawnbroker") and acting with Brad Dourif (Billy Bibbit in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"). Pesce was named Best Independent Director of the Year at the Hamptons International Film Festival for his critically acclaimed film "The Desperate Trail", which he wrote and directed. "Entertainment Weekly" called it "The best
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Stark Raving Dad


well; Michael shows an ability to mock himself that still surprises me." In a 2004 review for Digitally Obsessed, Nate Meyers wrote that "there are many funny gags in this episode, especially in the first act when Homer gets a tour of the [mental] hospital. Some clever references are made to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", but the second half of the episode is not especially funny. The jokes seem forced and there is too much of an effort to sentimentalize the relationship between Bart
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So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show


coma. At Homer's bedside, the Simpson family reminisce, mainly about moments relevant to Homer's life. Jon Vitti wrote the episode, and Carlos Baeza directed it. This is "The Simpsons"' first clip show, and it features clips from the first three seasons of the series. It was created to relieve the long hours put in by all of the show's overworked staff. The episode features cultural references to films such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Raiders of the Lost
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MKULTRA at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital. The project studied the effects on the patients of psychoactive drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT, and DMT. Kesey wrote many detailed accounts of his experiences with these drugs, both during the Project MKULTRA study and in the years of private experimentation that followed. Kesey's role as a medical guinea pig inspired him to write the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1962. The success of the book, as well as the sale of
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Teiji Ito


he composed the score for the Broadway production of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Ito wrote "Watermill" which was performed by the New York City Ballet in 1971. He had written the book "The Japanese Garden : An Approach to Nature" in 1972; the book detailed the basic elements of a Japanese garden. Ito also performed and composed for Jean Erdman's Theater of the Open Eye. Ito and his fourth wife, Cherel, edited Deren's 1947-1951 footage she shot while in Haiti
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Ken Kesey


work as juvenilia, an excerpt served as his Stanford Creative Writing Center application sample. During his Woodrow Wilson Fellowship year, Kesey wrote "Zoo", a novel about the beatniks living in the North Beach community of San Francisco, but it was never published. The inspiration for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" came while working on the night shift with Gordon Lish at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital. There, Kesey often spent time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the hallucinogenic drugs he
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too old for the McMurphy role, which ultimately went to 38-year-old Jack Nicholson. Douglas brought in Saul Zaentz as co-producer. The film's first screenwriter, Lawrence Hauben, introduced Douglas to the work of Miloš Forman, whose 1967 Czechoslovak film "The Firemen's Ball" had certain qualities that mirrored the goals of the present script. Forman flew to California and discussed the script page by page, outlining what he would do, in contrast with other directors who had been approached who were less than forthcoming.
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Carl-Åke Eriksson


Carl-Åke Eriksson (16 November 1934 – 7 November 2015) was a Swedish actor known for playing the sinister SS vampire in the horror-comedy Frostbite. He also appeared in several other high-profile Swedish productions like The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, Mysteriet på Greveholm and The Simple-Minded Murderer. He was most active at Malmö City Theatre. In the 1970s, Eriksson had a successful career at Malmö City Theatre, winning awards for playing McMurphy in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
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LoveJo


magazine called JoJo's version "a clear standout" on the EP, continuing calling it "all militant stomp buried under ambient noise; her voice soars and crashes over the glitchy, stuttering beat. It's not the most obvious love song, but who cares — it's good." The song lyrics refer to a patient in a mental institution, and it is based on the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The EP finishes with JoJo's "gospel-inflected" rendition of the "
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Arnold Stiefel


Paul Kohner, Stiefel moved from New York to Los Angeles, where he joined the Paul Kohner Agency as a literary agent. After a year, he left Kohner to found his own company, The Stiefel Office. His first client was the then-unknown screenwriter Bo Goldman. Shortly after signing with Stiefel, Goldman wrote the script for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1975. Stiefel broadened his roster to include actors and musicians, signing Bette Midler,
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Jack Nicholson


a cameo role with Polanski. Roger Ebert described Nicholson's portrayal as sharp-edged, menacing, and aggressive, a character who knew "how to go over the top", as he did in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". It is that edge that kept "Chinatown" from becoming a typical genre crime film. Ebert also notes the importance of the role for Nicholson's career, seeing it as a major transition from the exploitation films of the previous decade. "As Jake Gittes, he
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Master of Puppets


created by famed horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, with notable direct references to "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and to Cthulhu himself, who is the subject matter of the song's chorus. It is considered the heaviest track on the album, with the main riff emulating a beast dragging itself into the sea. The Black Sabbath-influenced guitars are down-tuned, creating slow and moody ambience. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" was based on Ken Kesey's novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and conveys
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Rebecca Grant (British actress)


"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" starring Christian Slater and directed by Terry Johnson; "Tagore's Women" by Kali Theatre; "The House of Bernarda Alba"; "Who Is This Jesus?"; "Bloodwedding"; "Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?"; "Carmen"; "Roy Hudd's Aladdin"; "Mahabharata"; "Burlesque"; "Twelfth Night"; and "The Glass Cage". In her most well known role, as Daisha Anderson,
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Marci Liroff


, "Barney Miller", "All in the Family", and "Maude". In 1979, Liroff started working with casting directors Mike Fenton and Jane Feinberg (Fenton-Feinberg Casting) who were famed for casting such classic films as, "American Graffiti", "Chinatown", "Young Frankenstein", " The Godfather Part II", "Shampoo", and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Liroff started as Fenton's assistant and worked on movies such as "Raiders of the
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Angels of the Universe


as a hobby. "Englar Alheimsins", often called the Icelandic "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", is the story of an Icelandic man, Páll (Ingvar E. Sigurðsson), who slowly descends into madness and depression after his girlfriend leaves him. His parents decide to send him to a mental hospital,where he meets Óli (Baltasar Kormákur), who believes he's the songwriter for The Beatles, Viktor (Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson), who signs cheques with the signature of Adolf Hitler, and other
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Alexander Morton


Semple in Scottish soap "Take the High Road". Highlights of his stage career include a Scots rendition of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and R.P. McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", both directed by Robert Carlyle, who was a founder member, with Morton, of the Raindog Theatre Company in the 1990s. Morton also worked regularly with theatre companies 7:84 and Borderline, and has appeared at the Traverse, the Lyceum, the Bush, the Royal Court, in repertory all over the UK, as
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Wendall K. Harrington


to be technological and aesthetic milestones... It was Harrington's work on the 1992 musical The Who's Tommy that arguably set the stage for the modern projections era." Considered the ‘godmother’ of modern theater projection in New York, many of her former assistants have gone on to Broadway careers including Zachary Borovay (Rock of Ages), Sage Carter (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest), Michael Clark (Jersey Boys) and Elaine J. McCarthy (Wicked) as well as Hope Hall who went on to serve
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into the night, cheered on by Taber. Actor Kirk Douglas—who had originated the role of McMurphy in the 1963–64 Broadway stage version of the Ken Kesey novel—had purchased the film rights to the story, and tried for a decade to bring it to the big screen, but was unable to find a studio willing to make it with him. Eventually, he sold the rights to his son Michael Douglas, who succeeded in getting the film produced—but the elder Douglas, by then nearly 60, was considered
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Ishai Golan


by enemy. For this performance, he won the Israeli Academy of Film and Television award for best actor in a drama series. In 2012, he appeared on the comedy series 'תנוחי' ("Get Some Rest") alongside Yael Grobglas who worked with him on "The Island". Golan also appeared in many theatre plays such as "Lovers and Pleasant", "The Withdrawal From Moscow", "Railway to Damascus" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in Habima Theatre, "Children
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Gene Siskel


of the film version of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Normally, Siskel and Ebert would refuse to guest-star in movies or television series, except for talk shows, as they felt it would undermine their "responsibility to the public". However, they both "could not resist" appearing on an episode of the animated television series "The Critic", the title character of which was a film critic who hosted a television show. In the episode, Siskel and Ebert split and each wants
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. "Time" magazine included the novel in its "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005" list. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 "best-loved novels." The book is narrated by "Chief" Bromden, a gigantic yet docile half-Native American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf and mute. Bromden’s tale focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity
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he assisted McMurphy with defending George, a patient being abused by the ward's aides. The acutes are patients who officials believe can still be cured. With few exceptions, they are there voluntarily, a fact that angers McMurphy when he first learns of it, then later causes him to feel further pity for the patients, thus further inspiring him to prove to them they can still be strong despite their seeming willingness to be weak. The chronics are patients who will never be cured. Many of the chronics are elderly and/or
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Gene Wilder


for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Nonfeatured Role." One of Wilder's early stage credits was playing the socially awkward mental patient Billy Bibbit in the original 1963–64 Broadway adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" opposite star Kirk Douglas. In 1963, Wilder was cast in a leading role in "Mother Courage and Her Children", a production starring Anne Bancroft, who introduced Wilder to her boyfriend (and later husband) Mel Brooks. A few months later, Brooks mentioned
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Elegy (The X-Files)


a "haunted bowling alley" because "it just seemed right". Harold Spuller was inspired by the 1975 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" starring Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy. Coincidentally, Spuller's friend in this episode, Chuck Forsch, is portrayed by actor Sydney Lassick, who had previously appeared in the movie as one of McMurphy's fellow patients. Steven M. Porter was friends with co-executive producer Frank Spotnitz, and due to this connection he was allowed to audition for a guest role on
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The Fortune


to a few television appearances and a minor role in the Barbra Streisand film "Up the Sandbox". Because the start of principal photography on "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was delayed, Jack Nicholson, who had worked with Nichols on "Carnal Knowledge", was available for the role of Oscar Sullivan. During filming, the actor was forced to deal with two events that impacted his personal life. First, a fact checker working on a biographical piece for "Time" discovered that the woman Nicholson believed
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Angela Lansbury


cancelled before it reached Broadway. Lansbury later described the play as "a complete and utter fiasco", admitting that in her opinion, her "performance was awful". In the 1970s, Lansbury declined several cinematic roles, including the lead in "The Killing of Sister George" and the role of Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Instead, she accepted the role of the Countess von Ornstein, an aging German aristocrat who falls in love with a younger man, in "Something for
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sonofabitch Indian came in the other day!" Miloš Forman had considered Shelley Duvall for the role of Candy. While screening "Thieves Like Us" (1974) to see if she was right for the role, he became interested in Louise Fletcher, who had a supporting role, for the role of Nurse Ratched. A mutual acquaintance, the casting director Fred Roos, had already mentioned Fletcher's name as a possibility. Even so, it took four or five meetings, over a year, (during which the role
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The Pop Underground


earlier days growing up in Ohio. Upon his return to the studio, the pair came up with an outline of the song. McMahon showed it to Hoffner, who added programming and synthesizers. "Lean to Dance" is about learning from the past and finding forgiveness. "After the Fire" was inspired by "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), and talks about stasis. The EP was intended for release in February 2013, however, he ended up receiving a support slot offer from Fun
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K-PAX (film)


as it is the only chance we have. Inspired, Powell begins a new, better life by reconciling with his estranged son. "K-PAX" received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 41% based on 139 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1 out of 10 with the web site's consensus stating "For those who have seen "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" or "Starman", "K-PAX" may not hold anything new. The
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Gielgud Theatre


. Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, "An Ideal Husband" (1992) and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (2004) saw notable revivals, and the Royal Shakespeare Company and others have brought several Shakespeare and classic play revivals to the theatre in recent decades. The 2007 production of "Equus" attracted considerable press for the nude appearance of 17-year-old Daniel Radcliffe, who was still filming the "Harry Potter" films. The production was successful enough to transfer to Broadway and ran to 2009 there
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Kirk Douglas


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", a story that he purchased and later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar-winning film. As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas has received three Academy Award nominations, an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an author, he has written ten novels and memoirs. Currently, he is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema, and the highest
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William Redfield (actor)


starring Richard Burton and directed by Sir John Gielgud. He also was a columnist for "Playfare Magazine" and collaborated with Wally Cox on "Mr. Peepers", a book about the television character with that name. During the filming of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Redfield was diagnosed with leukemia by doctor Dean Brooks, who also portrayed Dr. Spivey in the film. Redfield died at Saint Clare's Hospital on August 17, 1976 at age 49, with the cause of death given as "a respiratory
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Skin Deep (Once Upon a Time)


flower shop is called "Game of Thorns," a reference to "Game of Thrones", a popular fantasy show and book series. The name and a logo can be seen on the side of his van at the start of the episode. David is seen reading "Anna Karenina", another story about an affair that ends tragically. In the end of the episode, a reference to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is shown, when Regina meets a nurse, who looks like Nurse Ratchet and the janitor
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Bill Diodato


Hoffer Book Award, Communication Arts, American Photography, International Book award, and PDN. In 2005, Diodato was granted permission by the Oregon State Legislation to photograph the then-closed Oregon State Mental Hospital, the same hospital where the Academy Award–winning film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" was filmed. As Diodato writes in the book’s introduction, “Ward 81 is gone, and metaphorically so are the stereotypes associated with women who are afflicted with mental illness. My intention in publishing these images is
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Ratchet (Transformers)


Ratchet is a fictional robot superhero character in the Transformers robot superhero franchise. According to the original creator of the Transformers names, Bob Budiansky, Ratchet was named after the character of Nurse Ratched from the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The name Ratchet is almost always portrayed as an Autobot physician and pacificist combat medic who turns into an ambulance. Ratchet is sometimes referred to by the trademarked names "Autobot Ratchet" or "Rescue Ratchet." Ratchet (Mécano in Québec, Racsni in Hungary, Храповик
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Louise Fletcher


1974, she returned to film in "Thieves Like Us", co-produced by her husband and Robert Altman, who also directed. When the two had a falling out on Altman's next project, ("Nashville" (1975)), Altman decided to cast Lily Tomlin for the role of Linnea Reese, initially created for and by Fletcher. Meanwhile, director Miloš Forman saw Fletcher in "Thieves" and consequently cast her as McMurphy's nemesis Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
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Brainstorm (2000 film)


himself for the role, he talked with interns and watched productions on the subject, among them the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Miloš Forman. Sérgio Penna, a theatrical director and a theater guest professor at University of São Paulo, coordinated the cast preparation. His primary aim was to deconstruct the "superficial figure, stereotyped and crystallized by prejudice" image about psychiatric hospitals and the people who live there. The idea was to create another vision that would contain the first, but focus on "
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Vincent Schiavelli


who taught parents of runaway teens to smoke marijuana in order to better understand their children's experiences. Schiavelli's aptitude and distinctive angular appearance soon provided him with a steady stream of supporting roles, often in Miloš Forman films, including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Amadeus", "The People vs. Larry Flynt", "Valmont", and the 1999 biopic "Man on the Moon". He played Mr. Vargas, the biology teacher, in the 1982 comedy "Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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Leonard Nimoy


for eight weeks. Nimoy, who had performed in the Yiddish theater as a young man, said the part was like a "homecoming" for him, explaining that his parents, like Tevye, also came from a shtetl in Russia and could relate to the play when they saw him in it. Later that year he starred as Arthur Goldman in "The Man in the Glass Booth" at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. He starred as Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in
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Deaf-mute


a voice, King interpreted the term literally and made Nick unable to vocalize. However, he could read lips and make himself clearly understood by pantomiming and in writing. The phrase is used in "The Catcher in the Rye" to indicate someone who does not speak his mind, and hears nothing, in effect becoming isolated from the world. Chief Bromden, in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", is believed by all to be deaf and mute, but in fact he can hear and speak; he
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Man Facing Southeast


Angeles Times", both of whom expressed surprise at "K-PAX" author Gene Brewer's contention that "Man Facing Southeast" was unfamiliar to him. Film critics at MSNBC, for their part, commented that "both films are quite similar, though "Man Facing Southeast" is more ingenious and enigmatic". The film was described by Mark R. Leeper as a combination of Nicolas Roeg's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" and Miloš Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Other
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Constructing a Story


"Casablanca", "A Christmas Carol", "Groundhog Day", "The Lives of Others", "Oedipus Rex", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest", "One Thousand and One Nights", "Schindler’s List", "The Taming of the Shrew", and "Toy Story". In his analysis of the beginning of "Tootsie", for example, Yves Lavandier points out that contrary to many other analyses, the protagonist (Dustin Hoffman) is not actually characterized
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock


"One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, "The Green Green Grass". It was first screened on 25 December 2005, as the 2005 Christmas Special. After receiving an invitation to the Agricultural Ball in Somerset Boycie and Marlene decide to attend and take Bryan as their driver. Boycie begins to worry that the Driscoll Brothers might be at the ball. Upon arriving they soon begin to settle in until they meet two men who run a polo club who tell Boycie he could become a
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Peter Brocco


peace between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Brocco displayed a comedic talent portraying Peter The Waiter for 8 episodes of "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" on CBS during their 1955-1956 New York City season. Brocco played Colonel Matterson, a patient who used a wheelchair and had dementia, in the Academy Award-winning "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). He also appeared as the patient in the hospital, Mr. Eagane, in the "Happy Days" 1974
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Stuttering in popular culture


as something Annie did". But she grew frustrated with it, and some years later put herself through intense speech therapy and was largely successful in masking the outward symptoms of stuttering. A proud moment for the both of them was the first public speech she gave on her experiences as a stutterer. The novel (and film) "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has a major character named Billy Bibbit who suffers from a pronounced stutter. Through the story it is revealed that it has very negatively impacted his self
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Genevieve Cortese


degree in drama from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Before making her television debut as Kris Furillo, she performed in regional theater productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Crimes of the Heart", and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". Cortese met actor Jared Padalecki when she had a recurring role on his show "Supernatural" during its fourth season, replacing Katie Cassidy, who previously played the role. She went
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)


first attempt he asked Kesey to write the screenplay, and promised him a piece of the action, but it did not work out and ended in a financial dispute. Hal Ashby, who had been an early consideration for director, suggested Jack Nicholson for the role of McMurphy. Nicholson had never played this type of role before. Production was delayed for about six months because of Nicholson's schedule. Douglas later stated in an interview that "that turned out to be a great blessing: it gave us the chance to get
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Exorcist II: The Heretic


changed, both Ann-Margret and Jane Fonda were under consideration. Louise Fletcher, who had just won the Academy Award for Best Actress for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), accepted the part. Principal photography began in May 1976 at a budget of $12.5 million (the film ultimately cost $14 million to make). Although Boorman wanted to film the majority of the film on location (including Ethiopia and The Vatican), many of his plans proved to be impossible, resulting in
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St Bernard's Hospital, Hanwell


. This went down especially well with the staff as an earlier film of Jack's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), set in an American psychiatric hospital, was at that time a favourite. Some scenes of Stephen Poliakoff's film "She's Been Away" (1989) were filmed at the hospital. Dame Peggy Ashcroft starred as Lillian Huckle, a woman who was institutionalized 60 years before whilst still a young girl, simply because she did not conform to social norms. In the 1963
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Michael Douglas


O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut for the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1975, Douglas received from his father, Kirk Douglas, the rights to the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Michael went on to produce the film of the same name with Saul Zaentz. Kirk Douglas hoped to portray McMurphy himself, having starred in an earlier stage version, but was deemed too old for the part by his son Michael. Kirk relented, and the lead role went instead to Jack Nicholson, who won the
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Once Upon a Time (season 5)


season's two-parter on November 15, 2015. The premiere episode of the season, "The Dark Swan", saw the return of David-Paul Grove as Doc, Faustine Di Bauda as Sleepy, Jeffrey Kaiser as Dopey, Michael Coleman as Happy, Mig Macario as Bashful, Raphael Alejandro as Roland, Timothy Webber as the Apprentice and Ingrid Torrance as the Severe Nurse who is revealed during the episode to be the show's version of Nurse Ratched from Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)


in the broader conformity of post-war American consumer society. The novel's critique of the mental ward as an instrument of oppression comparable to the prison mirrored many of the claims that French intellectual Michel Foucault was making at the same time. Similarly, Foucault argued that invisible forms of discipline oppressed individuals on a broad societal scale, encouraging them to censor aspects of themselves and their actions. The novel also criticizes the emasculation of men in society, particularly in the character of Billy Bibbit, the stuttering Acute patient who is domineered
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Charmaine (song)


Island fancy dress party when the eccentric widow Muzzy Van Hossmere Carol Channing is introducing all of her "instructors" who also happen to be former lovers. The song is a recurring theme in the movie when referring to Millie Dillmount's Julie Andrews love life or lack thereof. The song is featured in the "giallo" film "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" (1971), during a murder scene. In the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) the tune is constantly played as background music
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Sydney Lassick


Sydney Lassick (July 23, 1922 – April 12, 2003) was an American actor perhaps best known for his role as Charlie Cheswick in the feature film "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". Lassick's first name was sometimes spelled "Sidney". He was born in Chicago, Illinois to Russian Jewish immigrants. Lassick, who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and afterwards studied drama at DePaul University, first began acting in both films and TV shows in the late 1950s. Portly and
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Corey Brunish


an artist who worked for Walter Lantz on the Woody Woodpecker films. In February 2017, Brunish released his debut, solo album on Broadway Records: #ThrowbackThursday. Corey made his debut as director with "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." He directed Stephen Sondheim's "Company" in 2009. Mentored by Tony nominated director Jeff Calhoun, Corey ventured into producing in 2011. He came to New York as assistant director and producer of the Broadway show "Bonnie and Clyde". After the show closed, he
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Center (basketball)


none enjoyed the success of Robert Parish, who, with forwards Larry Bird and Kevin McHale, formed the legendary frontcourt of the Boston Celtics team that won three titles (1981, 1984 and 1986). The Celtics' fierce rivalry with the Lakers dominated the NBA during the decade and helped basketball reach an unprecedented level of popularity. Nicknamed "Chief" after a character in the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because of his stoic demeanor, Parish was known for his trademark arching jump-shot—leading
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The Dalles, Oregon


to Silverton, Oregon. Emaciated and tired, he was aided by members of the community before moving westward through the Columbia Gorge. Construction of The Dalles Dam in 1957 submerged the Long Narrows and Celilo Falls. In 1963, Ken Kesey's novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was published featuring the narrator, Chief, who is from The Dalles. In 1970, the Bonneville Power Administration opened the Celilo Converter Station near the northern terminus of the Pacific DC Intertie which sends 3,100 megawatts of electricity to Los Angeles
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Brad Dourif


' Back, Red Ryder?", in which he was spotted by director Miloš Forman who cast him in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). In 2013, after a three-decade absence from the stage, Dourif chose to star alongside Amanda Plummer in the Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Two-Character Play" that played to critical acclaim at the New World Stages. He explained, in a filmed interview released by the producers, why he broke his 29-year hiatus
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Jack Nitzsche


"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", his first of many studio projects with Scott Mathews. In the mid-1990s, an inebriated Nitzsche was seen being arrested in Hollywood in an episode of the television show "Cops" after brandishing a gun at some youths who had stolen his hat. Attempting to explain himself to the arresting officers, he is heard exclaiming that he was an Academy Award winner. In 1997, he expressed interest in producing a comeback album for Link Wray, although this never materialized due to their mutually
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)


Randle Patrick McMurphy is moved to a mental institution after serving a short sentence on a prison farm for statutory rape of a 15-year-old. Though not actually mentally ill, McMurphy hopes to avoid hard labor and serve the rest of his sentence in a relaxed environment. Upon arriving at the hospital, he finds the ward run by nurse Mildred Ratched, a steely passive-aggressive tyrant who intimidates her patients in order to keep them in line. The other patients include anxious, stuttering Billy Bibbit; Charlie Cheswick, who is
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Timothy Meyers


, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (Scanlon), "Lady of the Diamond" (Sportscaster), "Write Me a Murder" (Charles Sturrock), "She Stoops to Conquer" (Stingo), "Ah, Wilderness!" (David McComber), "Loot" (Meadows), "Tartuffe" (Damis), "The Caretaker" (Mick), "Steambath" (Morty), "Comedians" (Phil Murray), "King Lear" (Oswald)
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Jack Nicholson


); the dramas "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975); the comedy-dramas "The Last Detail" (1973), "Terms of Endearment" (1983), "As Good as It Gets" (1997), "About Schmidt" (2002), and "The Bucket List" (2007); the neo-noir mystery "Chinatown" (1974); the horror film "The Shining" (1980);
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Kristina Wong


UCLA English Department. She also delivered the commencement speech for UCLA's student-initiated Asian Pacific Islander graduation (APIG) in 2014, including a bit about re-defining which men are considered sexy. In 2006, Wong received support from the Creative Capital Foundation and the National Performance Network to create "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." The show explores the high rates of depression and suicide among Asian American women. It has toured nationally. In November 2013, Tricia Tongco of the "Huffington Post" wrote
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Noel Taylor (costume designer)


" (1955), "Auntie Mame" (1956), "The Body Beautiful" (1958), "Tall Story" (1959), "Write Me a Murder" (1961), "The Night of the Iguana" (1961) and (1976), "Great Day in the Morning" (1962), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1963), "What Makes Sammy Run?" (1964), "Hughie" (1964), "Slapstick Tragedy
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Vincent Canby


", "Night of the Living Dead", "After Hours", "Blazing Saddles", "A Christmas Story", "Witness", "Mask", "The Natural", "Rain Man", "The Exorcist", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Deliverance", "The Godfather Part II", "Alien" and "The Thing". Among the best-known texts written by Canby was an extremely negative review of the movie "Heaven's Gate
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St Patrick's College, Strathfield


(2016), "The Comedy of Errors" (2014), "Boy Overboard" (2013), "The Chocolate War" (2012), "Much Ado About Nothing" (2011), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (2010), "A Few Good Men" (2009), "The Wasps" (2008), "The Taming of the Shrew" (2007) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (2006). The college competes annually with the
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Jack Nicholson


together in the other room. Geimer learned afterward that Huston herself wasn't supposed to be at Nicholson's house that day, since they had recently broken up, but stopped over to pick up some belongings. Geimer described Nicholson's house as "definitely" a guy's house, with lots of wood and shelves crowded with photos and mementos. One of Nicholson's greatest successes came in 1975, with his role as Randle P. McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The movie was an adaptation of
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Sometimes a Great Notion


Sometimes a Great Notion is Ken Kesey's second novel, published in 1964. While "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) is more famous, many critics consider "Sometimes a Great Notion" Kesey's magnum opus. The story involves an Oregon family of gyppo loggers who cut and procure trees for a local mill in opposition to striking, unionized workers. Kesey took the title from the song "Goodnight, Irene", popularized by Lead Belly. poem style="margin-left: 2em;"Sometimes I lives in the
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Kerry Peers


2002–03, playing the part of Helen Carey who turned out to be the daughter of Ray Hilton, played by Kenneth Cope from the much loved 60's TV series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Kerry has also continued to appear on-stage, playing Nurse Ratched in an acclaimed version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play) directed by Terry Hands at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Paradise Bound at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and playing Billy's mother in Billy Liar at the Liverpool Playhouse. She has also performed
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