There was much excitement in Hollywood last year when filmmaker James L. Brooks said Jack Nicholson could return to the screen.
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Brooks, who directed Nicholson in his last film – the romantic comedy How Do You Know in 2010 – said: 'He's gotten scripts, he's reading them, and I'm sure we'll be seeing them.'
Now, however, Nicholson's great friend Michael Douglas has revealed that the Oscar winner and notorious womaniser will never appear in front of a camera again.
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'I would have liked to have acted with Jack,' says Douglas, 82, star of films including Fatal Attraction, Wall Street and Romancing The Stone.
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'He's not working any more.
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He has disappeared.
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I know that.
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Douglas was speaking on stage at the Swansea Building Society Arena in South Wales, where he was promoting his memoir One Helluva Ride.
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Jack Nicholson with old pal Michael Douglas, the year he made his last film, the romantic comedy How Do You Know
He adds: 'I still see him, but he is fine.
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He is up there by his house and walking around in his slippers.
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It happens.
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He deserves it.
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I understand.
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He is a few years older than me but I understand.'
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Nicholson, 89, won Oscars for his performances in Terms Of Endearment, As Good As It Gets and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, which was produced by Douglas.
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Although he never announced his retirement he drifted from sight, but made a rare public appearance last year in the audience for the American TV programme Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special.
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It provoked renewed interest in his whereabouts – and whether or not he might ever return to acting.
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In 2017, he was due to star in a remake of the German comedy Toni Erdmann, but he dropped out, derailing the project.
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In a 2013 Vanity Fair article, he stated that he did not consider himself to be retired, but he was simply less driven to 'be out there any more'.
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Amanda legs it to wedding
Alexander Heller, Sofia Yeganeh and Amanda Cronin at the New York nuptials
Rumoured to have 'the longest legs in Belgravia', Amanda Cronin was clearly determined to show them off at her daughter's wedding.
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The Real Housewives Of London star, 58, wore a striking pink mini-dress to the New York wedding of her daughter, artist Sofia Yeganeh, 30, and tech entrepreneur Alexander Heller.
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The bride wore a chic Schiaparelli suit accessorised with a simple bouquet of calla lilies.
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He may have bought himself a football club, but there is one thing that Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds has been unable to acquire.
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I hear that Catherine Zeta-Jones, despite being proudly Welsh, has refused his pleas to appear in his TV documentary series Welcome To Wrexham.
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Speaking to an audience in her native Swansea, Catherine's husband, Michael Douglas, says: 'She wants you all to know, no matter how many times they ask her, she is not going to be in the Wrexham series.
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Perhaps Douglas and Zeta-Jones should buy Swansea City?
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Although frequently cast as a mobster in gangster epics – from Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen to Martin Scorsese's The Departed – Ray Winstone is far from violent off set.
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However, even the 69-year-old actor has his limits.
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He admits: 'I did say to a kid once who was misbehaving on a train out from Hertfordshire...
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I said: 'Listen, kid, I haven't had a fight for ten years, but for you I will make a comeback.'
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Has King Charles been sent a subtle message by Princess Diana's friend Julia Samuel, who is godmother to his grandson Prince George?
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The psychotherapist has written an article online under the headline 'What happens to you as a parent when your adult children no longer speak to each other?'.
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Julia, who remains close to Princes William and Harry, says: 'The pain of sibling estrangement can be profound.
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You may feel caught between your children, helpless to repair the divide, and question what you could have done differently.
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'Our instinct is to bring them back together.
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'People often say 'bang their heads together', yet our attempts to help can sometimes deepen the hurt.
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Apple joins nepo baby gang for mag launch
From left: Actress Nico Parker, daughter of Thandiwe Newton; Sam Nivola, son of Emily Mortimer, and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple Martin
How about this for a celebration of showbusiness nepotism.
To attract younger readers, the fashion magazine W has launched W Youth, which is edited by Sara Moonves, the daughter of former CBS chief executive Les Moonves – and she gathered a nursery of fellow so-called nepo babies for the launch party in New York.
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They included model Apple Martin, 22, daughter of Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer Chris Martin; actress Nico Parker, 21, daughter of Line Of Duty star Thandiwe Newton and film director Ol Parker; and Sam Nivola, 23, son of actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola.
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Sam has starred in The White Lotus.
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Apple's mother has dismissed the term nepo baby, calling it 'an ugly moniker'.
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She speaks from experience – Gwynnie's mum is Hollywood star Blythe Danner.
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…and 4 more, not listed.
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