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Jack Nicholson Is Taking the Year Off
This story was originally published in the April 16, 1981, issue of Rolling Stone. The Outsider He thought of himself as a dark specter beyond the bathers. Most of the lifeguards at this particular New Jersey beach had opted for the image of Bronze …