Michael Douglas Says Jack Nicholson Is 'Well' but Has 'Disappeared'

Actor Michael Douglas has given an update on his longtime friend Jack Nicholson, saying the actor is well but has disappeared. Speaking in Swansea, Wales, while promoting his memoir One Helluva Ride, Douglas said he would have liked to act with Nicholson, who he said is no longer working. Nicholson has not appeared on the big screen in 16 years. Douglas said their friendship began in the mid-1970s, when he produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the film that starred Nicholson in an Oscar-winning role. Douglas also said he knows the actor has withdrawn from work.

Left-leaning Rolling Stone leads with Douglas's assessment that Nicholson is well but has disappeared, presenting it as a personal update from a friend and building the piece around Douglas's account of their friendship and the Cuckoo's Nest production. Alternative Variety covers the same remarks and largely matches that account, though its headline adds Douglas's statement that he still sees Nicholson, a detail the left-leaning report does not feature. The right-leaning Washington Times does not report on Nicholson in its article. Its headline, that Douglas says he hopes voters 'massacre' Republicans, centers on his remark in a recent interview that he hopes for an electoral 'massacre' of the GOP on Tuesday. Left and alternative sources share the Nicholson details, while the right-leaning coverage focuses on the political remark instead.