 Christopher Fryer and Bruce Dern himself, Jack Nicholson in the early years, and Bruce Dern, a memoir available at University Press of Kentucky as well as Amazon.com. Before I went to break, Bob and Chris were walking us through the unlikely circumstances through which they first met Jack Nicholson in 1971, shortly after he completed production of King of the Marvin Gardens, a set of circumstances that would not be possible were they to attempt to do this today.