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Friday 13 april 2018
Nick Nolte looks back on his movie roles, drugs, mug shots

By MARK KENNEDY he realizes how often things
NEW YORK (AP) — You could have really gone
might remember Nick wrong for him."
Nolte's infamous mug shot Nolte describes his own
from 2002, the one where #MeToo moment when,
the three-time Oscar nomi- at 21, a Hollywood agent
nee wears his hair wild and invited him to his Bel Air
his shirt Hawaiian. But did home for dinner. After the
you know he has another man excused himself, he
one from many years be- returned wearing only a
fore that arrest? silk dressing gown and an-
In 1961 Nolte was bust- nounced: "Hello, cuddle
ed for selling fake draft bunny." Nolte was out the
cards, fined $75,000 and door quick. "That would be
sentenced to 75 years in a casting couch. But I was
prison, later suspended. In not an actor at that time at
that booking photo, a pre- all," he said.
famous Nolte wears his hair Nolte also has a dim view
short and a button-down of Harvey Weinstein, the
shirt. one-time Miramax com-
Both embarrassing inci- pany head who had a
dents are heartily discussed reputation as a ruthless film
in his new memoir, "Rebel: editor. (Multiple allegations
My Life Outside the Lines." In this March 12, 2018 photo, actor Nick Nolte poses for a portrait to promote his memoir, "Rebel: of sexual misconduct last
Nolte, 77, is now ready to My Life Outside the Lines." year upended his career.)
tell his story — warts and all. Associated Press Nolte recounts how his film
The arrests act almost like "The Golden Bowl" was "re-
bookends to a sometimes with the biggest mistakes in a natural jock, who found real heroin during the eight- duced to shreds" by Wein-
crazy life. your life is to discuss them. fame later in life when he week shoot of "The Good stein's cut before it was sold
"I've had two mug shots in With everybody, including traded in performing on Thief" to better portray a back to the filmmakers.
my lifetime. It's hard to get God." the stage to movies. heroin addict. He slept with Nolte said Weinstein tried
those. And if you get them, The autobiography traces "Acting always appealed Jacqueline Bisset during to "bully me into a couple
you better make sure you the rise of the headstrong to me a lot because it's risk filming of "The Deep" but his of roles" — including "Co-
examine the circumstanc- Nolte — literally, because taking. And it's something I inability to skate lost him a pland" — and was "ma-
es that you got them," he had the bizarre habit of don't do naturally. I mean part in "Slap Shot." He was nipulative" during awards
Nolte told The Associated head-butting parked cars. when I'm standing back- offered "Superman" but season. "I never had much
Press. "The best way to deal He was a Midwestern boy, stage and that curtain is saw nothing super about admiration for Miramax or
about to open I say, 'Why the role. Harvey primarily because
would you do this to your- Nolte has nice things to say I had friends who made
self? Are you really that about co-stars Eddie Mur- movies that were shelved,"
much of an idiot to just ex- phy, Katharine Hepburn he said. And, of course,
pose yourself to a thousand and Barbra Streisand. He there's the story of his infa-
people?'" he said. has less than nice things to mous Sept. 11, 2002, arrest.
"And then the curtain say about Debra Winger That day he'd gone to the
opens and, if it goes all ("hellfire") and Edward Nor- gym for a GHB-enhanced
right, you don't remember ton (Nolte vowed to "slit workout but felt too messed
opening night — there's too his throat"). He recounts a up. So he headed toward
much adrenaline. Actors spectacular prank pulled an Alcoholics Anonymous
are risk takers. And they're by Woody Harrelson on meeting but didn't go in,
taking the risks for their own Sean Penn in Australia that instead weaving down the
sanity." involved real cops and Pacific Coast Highway.
Nolte, whose hits include gunshots. "I needed help," he wrote.
"The Prince of Tides," ''Cape May Chen, his editor at He says his booking photo
Fear," ''Lorenzo's Oil," ''The HarperCollins, said Nolte resembles "an asylum in-
Good Thief," ''The Thin Red wrote some of the book by mate out for a lark in his
Line" and "48 Hrs.," self- telling his stories out loud. flower-print Hawaiian shirt."
medicated to quell his in- Those anecdotes were lat- Now sober, Nolte can
ner demons. "A little chaos er stitched together, along- chuckle. "I take full respon-
around keeps me sane," he side journal entries and his sibility for that one," he
writes. own longhand writings. She said.q
The book recounts his calls him a "very self-aware"
amazing appetite for drugs author, not afraid to delve
— including coke, LSD, HGH into his own darkness.
and GHB — and the time "He's not embarrassed
he single-handedly saved about it. This is his life. Ob-
the movie "Under Fire" by viously, I sure he's regret-
smuggling the film canisters ful of some of these things
out of Mexico, one step but he's not embarrassed
ahead of the law. by it. He owns up to it," she
We learn he ate real dog said. "Now with hindsight,
food in "Down and Out in all these decades later, he
Beverly Hills," and he took can look back and I think