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lapsedmodernistfirst--two addendums to the dyslexicon
1) Poma--post-markist
2) Pinternet--the internet (in any incarnation) when undergoing the effects of The Vortex (see The Dyslexicon)
Also, I think that Jack Nicholson is a possible candidate for Children of Mark, or at least for honorary Children of Mark. This is because, apparently the woman he thought was his sister for all these years turned out to be his mother. Also, it happenned to him when he was 37 years old. Really. It's like he is begging to be a Child of Mark.
This is the article on it from snopes.com, a website that specializes in debunking urban myths, so they are all color-coded (like the Terror Barometer! Ooh! A Terrometor!) based on accuracy, and there are explanations of how they arose. Anyway, apprently the Easy Rider's weird little bio tip happens to be true.
Claim: At age 37 Jack Nicholson discovered that the woman he'd always thought his sister was actually his mother.
Status: True.
Origins: He's a superstar of the screen and a bad boy extraordinaire, so it's hard to imagine the details of Jack Nicholson's life could be any more complicated than his celebrity and style of living made them. Yet they are, for 37 years into his life, he discovered the woman he'd been calling "sis" was actually his mother.
In [Here's Johnny!] June 1974 the mystery of Jack's birth came to light, just as his movie Chinatown was scheduled to open in theaters. In preparation for a cover story on Nicholson, a Time magazine reporter phoned Nicholson to check on the extraordinary information that had been unearthed: Jack's "sister" June was in fact Jack's mother, and a man claiming to be his father was alive and well in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The news about Nicholson's parentage turned out to be true: Jack, born on 22 April 1937, had been the illegitimate child of 17-year-old June Nicholson. Nicholson had spent his life up to age 37 assuming that his biological mother, June, was his sister, and that his maternal grandmother, Ethel May, was his mother. Even on their deathbeds, neither June nor Ethel May had offered up the truth.
His reaction to the news? The Glasgow Herald reported:
"It was in 1975 soon after June died. I was making The Fortune for Mike Nichols and someone called me on the phone and told me. Ultimately I got official verification from June's sister, Lorraine. I was stunned."
[Note: Nicholson is clearly misremembering here. His mother June had been dead for about ten years by 1975.]
Oddly enough, Nicholson's experience mirrored that of another Hollywood figure, singer Bobby Darin. In 1968 the then-32-year-old Darin discovered the woman he'd been calling sis all those years was actually his mother. Darin had been contemplating a career in politics, which prompted his "sister" to come clean about the circumstances of his birth.
A teeth cleaning led to heart-patient Darin's death in 1973. He neglected to take antibiotics before the procedure.
1) Poma--post-markist
2) Pinternet--the internet (in any incarnation) when undergoing the effects of The Vortex (see The Dyslexicon)
Also, I think that Jack Nicholson is a possible candidate for Children of Mark, or at least for honorary Children of Mark. This is because, apparently the woman he thought was his sister for all these years turned out to be his mother. Also, it happenned to him when he was 37 years old. Really. It's like he is begging to be a Child of Mark.
This is the article on it from snopes.com, a website that specializes in debunking urban myths, so they are all color-coded (like the Terror Barometer! Ooh! A Terrometor!) based on accuracy, and there are explanations of how they arose. Anyway, apprently the Easy Rider's weird little bio tip happens to be true.
Claim: At age 37 Jack Nicholson discovered that the woman he'd always thought his sister was actually his mother.
Status: True.
Origins: He's a superstar of the screen and a bad boy extraordinaire, so it's hard to imagine the details of Jack Nicholson's life could be any more complicated than his celebrity and style of living made them. Yet they are, for 37 years into his life, he discovered the woman he'd been calling "sis" was actually his mother.
In [Here's Johnny!] June 1974 the mystery of Jack's birth came to light, just as his movie Chinatown was scheduled to open in theaters. In preparation for a cover story on Nicholson, a Time magazine reporter phoned Nicholson to check on the extraordinary information that had been unearthed: Jack's "sister" June was in fact Jack's mother, and a man claiming to be his father was alive and well in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The news about Nicholson's parentage turned out to be true: Jack, born on 22 April 1937, had been the illegitimate child of 17-year-old June Nicholson. Nicholson had spent his life up to age 37 assuming that his biological mother, June, was his sister, and that his maternal grandmother, Ethel May, was his mother. Even on their deathbeds, neither June nor Ethel May had offered up the truth.
His reaction to the news? The Glasgow Herald reported:
"It was in 1975 soon after June died. I was making The Fortune for Mike Nichols and someone called me on the phone and told me. Ultimately I got official verification from June's sister, Lorraine. I was stunned."
[Note: Nicholson is clearly misremembering here. His mother June had been dead for about ten years by 1975.]
Oddly enough, Nicholson's experience mirrored that of another Hollywood figure, singer Bobby Darin. In 1968 the then-32-year-old Darin discovered the woman he'd been calling sis all those years was actually his mother. Darin had been contemplating a career in politics, which prompted his "sister" to come clean about the circumstances of his birth.
A teeth cleaning led to heart-patient Darin's death in 1973. He neglected to take antibiotics before the procedure.
