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John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired European-American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards 12 times, winning Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets, and Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Michael Caine). He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include, Easy Rider, Chinatown, The Shining, Reds, Batman, A Few Good Men, About Schmidt, Something's Gotta Give, and The Departed.
Jack Nicholson
Spotswood Henry
for Spotswood Henry in Housekeeping in Old Virginia
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Jim bought Book by Mrs. Tyree and became the narrator of this story when he began to tell it to his children to prove to his daughter that being a housewife is not a bad thing. Marion Cabell Tyree was Afroamerican housekeeping wife, who lived in Virginia. She married Samuel Tyree of Lynchburg, a successful businessman, and the couple had a beautiful and comfortable home in which they dispensed in the most gracious and genial manner that hospitality for which old Virginia was famous. During the Civil War, Tyree cared for the Confederate sick and wounded who were far from home and family, managing to provide them with food and medical remedies despite wartime blockades and shortages. Marion Cabell Tyree was the last surviving granddaughter of Patrick Henry and the daughter of Spotswood Henry. She was the author of an influential cookbook Housekeeping in Old Virginia. She compiled recipes for her cookbook using two hundred and fifty famous housewives in Virginia. Modern scholars of the culture of the Southern United States after the American Civil War have identified the rhetorical techniques used by Tyree to establish credibility for her book and its heritage. She lists the names of all those who contributed recipes. And who is the mystery Mrs. S. T., who is funder of Iced Tea and author of best recipes?
