Sep 21 2007
Jack Nicholson and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (in Salem)
On the Set of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with Jack Nicholson at Oregon State Hospital
[from the Dec. 4th, 1975, issue] TIM CAHILL, Rolling Stone Magazine
Jack Nicholson was thinking about very special chickens - specifically those deadly flying hens, reeking with venom: the kind that will bury their beaks in your belly as you sleep, the ones that cackle in dark closets and lurk like vultures just beyond the transom. More properly, Jack Nicholson was thinking about people who are obsessively concerned with such chickens. “People who see chickens,” he concluded, “don’t belong in places like this.”
