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Jack Nicholson's Career Best

With his new ''Bucket List,'' in theaters, we trace the actor's trek from rookie (1960's ''Little Shop of Horrors'') to antihero (''Five Easy Pieces'') to criminal kingpins cartoonish (''Batman'') and debauched (''The Departed'')
By Gary Susman Updated January 03, 2008 at 09:00 PM EST
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