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  Nick Nolte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His father, Frank Nolte, a farmer's son and an itinerant irrigation pump salesman of part German descent, was an All-American candidate at Iowa State in 1934.
Nolte was educated at Omaha Benson High School and Westside High School, Omaha; Arizona State University (on a football scholarship); Eastern Arizona College, Thatcher, Arizona; and Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona.
Nick is trying to keep healthy by a regimen of vitamins and eating organic food only.
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 Nick Nolte
What followed Nolte's breakthrough was a lot of tabloid headlines as his hard-drinking, cavalier ways landed him on the front pages of numerous publications and saw him slapped with a $4.5-million palimony suit by his eight-year companion, Karen Louise.
But Nolte's career went into the tailspin that inevitable follows excess before he resurrected himself in the '90s, kicking off the decade with a bang when he garnered an Oscar nomination for his role in The Prince of Tides.
In September, 2002, Nolte was arrested while driving under the influence of the date rape drug GHB in Hollywood.
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 Nick Nolte arrest and drug problems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Nolte's stay at the star-friendly facility (it counts Billy Joel among its alumni) was open-ended, with Bloch saying the actor would "be there as long as he feels is necessary." The California Highway Patrol nabbed Nolte after spotting the actor's fl 1992 Mercedes-Benz swerving on the Pacific Coast Highway.
Nolte was behind the wheel of his fl 1992 Mercedes-Benz when, according to the California Highway Patrol, he was spotted having difficulty keeping the luxury car in a lane--any lane--of the famed Pacific Coast Highway.
Nolte has copped to being a heavy drinker in the past--although it was presumed the heavy-drinking days were in his past.
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 Nick Nolte arrested for drink driving - smh.com.au
Malibu, California: Actor Nick Nolte was arrested for investigation of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs after his car was seen swerving on a highway near his home, authorities said.
Although Nolte was booked for investigation of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Bower said "it probably wasn't alcohol." Blood tests to determine whether Nolte had drugs in his system won't be available for several days, he added.
Nolte had a reputation as a heavy drinker for years, once describing himself as a "functioning drunk." But in the mid-1990s he reportedly quit alcohol and became a health-and-fitness buff.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/12/1031608298728.html   (230 words)

  
 Nick Nolte Biography
It's hard to believe that the gruff and grizzled Nick Nolte, a multiple Oscar nominee feted as one of today's greatest screen actors, was once derided as a pretty boy of no obvious ability.
Nolte had come to prominence after 14 years in regional theatre and was already 35 when he played the 17-year-old Tom Jordache in Rich Man, Poor Man. He would immediately prove himself to be a troubled maverick of deep complexity, and deliberately seek out similar renegade talents.
Nolte himself wanted something meatier and proved it by turning down the $1 million he was offered for a continuation of Rich Man, Poor Man (having died in the first one, he was told he'd have to come back as his own son).
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 Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte is at his best playing troubled eccentrics, or tough characters with or without a heart of gold.
Nolte was not home at the time, but was sued for negligence by the girl's parents, who allege that Nolte should have been "aware of the propensity" of a live-in security guard to provide "alcohol and/or drugs to minor children".
Nolte's best fiction includes the story of falling from a roof when he was ten and being impaled through the groin; undergoing cosmetic surgery on his testicles, living for several years in a Mexican brothel, misplacing his father's artificial leg in a tavern, and being functionally illiterate until his twenties.
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 Nick Nolte - Biography - Moviefone
At this point in his career Nolte could certainly be counted on to turn in compelling performances regardless of the project, which made the return of his former demons more tragic than ever.
As the progenitor, Nolte receives second billing in that picture for what amounts to an infinitesimal part, but predictably graces the heart-rending film with considerable force that puts it over the top, as Moland almost certainly sensed that he would.
Meanwhile, Nolte shot two 2007 releases: Pride and Glory, for helmer Gavin O'Connor, about a family torn asunder by police corruption, and Mysteries of Pittsburgh, an adaptation of Michael Chabon's debut novel about a soon-to-be college freshman who has his "first time" when he enters a love triangle with an older couple.
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 Nick Nolte - Uncyclopedia
Nick Nolte was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a woman who could menstruate.
Nolte's interest in rose breeding began at an early age, when he was run over by a floral delivery truck.
Nolte soon found out he had a green thumb, which was saved from amputation by antibiotics.
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 CNN.com - Nick Nolte arrested on suspicion of drunken driving - September 12, 2002
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Actor Nick Nolte is free on $2,500 bail after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, the California Highway Patrol said Thursday.
Nolte, 61, failed a field sobriety test after being pulled over by a CHP officer Wednesday on the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu, said Capt. Dan Bower, a Highway Patrol spokesman.
Nolte was "weaving and driving erratically" and his speech was "slow and slurred" when stopped, Bower said.
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 CNN.com - Nolte pleads no contest to DUI count - Dec. 12, 2002
A judge Thursday placed Nick Nolte on three years' probation and ordered him to undergo a 90-day substance abuse program after the actor pleaded no contest to misdemeanor DUI charges.
Nolte was arrested September 11 after police saw his fl Mercedes-Benz driving erratically on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
He was charged with one count of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and one count of being under the influence of a controlled substance known as gamma-hydroxybutyrate or GHB, the so-called date-rape drug.
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 Pacific Street Film Projects -- Bravo Profile: Nick Nolte
A Hollywood heavyweight, Nick Nolte has spent the last decade pursuing roles not for the money, but for the love of the script.
Nolte is considered by many of his colleagues to be an actor with integrity.
Nick Nolte is a complex man and, no doubt, a versatile actor.
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 USATODAY.com - Teen's parents sue actor Nick Nolte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Parents of a teenage girl have sued Nick Nolte, alleging their daughter was drugged and sexually assaulted at a party at the actor's Malibu home two years ago.
Nolte was not at the property," Nolte's publicist Arnold Robinson said Thursday.
It claims Nolte was negligent because he was "aware of the propensity" of the security officer and one of the minors "for providing alcohol and/or drugs to minor children," and "the use of these intoxicating substances for the purpose of gaining compliance to certain acts of sexual harassment."
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-12-03-nolte_x.htm   (339 words)

  
 Leopard Hunting
At this point Nick was becoming very anxious, as we had to find the location of the dead calf and build the blind, whilst Andre needed some reassurance from Nick that this 28 year old mother of a toddler could take this leopard down.
Nick has trained Jozef over the years to tell the difference between a brown hyaena and a leopard track as well as what to do when he finds a fresh kill.
Nick switched off the light and waited about 5 minutes finally whispering in my ear that I had to be certain and quick with my shot.
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 Nick Nolte - Moviefone
With ruggedly handsome looks and a lengthy screen career, actor-producer Nick Nolte has established himself as a major industry figure.
Actor Nick Nolte was arrested by the California Highway Patrol on September 11, 2002 and charged with driving under the influence.
Nick Nolte - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Nick Nolte Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Nick Nolte , Celebrity profile, bio, biography
Nick Nolte is a two-time Academy Award nominee with the ability to masterfully portray a wide range of rolls.
Nolte starred opposite Julia Roberts in I LOVE TROUBLE and as a basketball coach in BLUE CHIPS for director William Friedkin.
Upcoming on Nolte's and Kingsgate's schedule is BEST OF ENEMIES, a film based on a true story set in South Carolina in the early 60s dealing with the relationship between a Klansman and a militant African-American woman.
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 Articles about Nick Nolte
Nolte is a far cry from the hellion who taunted and toyed with the media in the past, the hard-partying rowdy who reportedly once welcomed a journalist to a decimated hotel room, gun and six-pack in hand.
Nolte, who tends to be philosophical at times, told a recent gathering of film critics that humans have been violent from the very beginning of time.
Nolte appeared in TV and print ads for the utility company Northern States Power, she says, and was featured in newspaper ads for Dayton's department store.
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 Nick Nolte News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
One look at Nick Nolte in gloriously rumpled close-up in the rewarding new film 'Off the Black' reveals someone who has not been easy on...
Movie actors of Nick Nolte's clout get to decide right down to the last wrinkle and half-ounce of muscle or flab how they want to age onscreen.
Nick Nolte admirably piles on the pounds and pathos as an alcoholic high school baseball umpire who compels a losing pitcher to accompany him to a class reunion and pretend to be his son.
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 Nick Nolte - Cranky Critic® StarTalk - Movie Star Interviews
Nolte would remain in the hospital for 28 days, and his stay was certainly cathartic and therapeutic, he admits.
Nolte, who plays Dr. David Banner in The Hulk has garnered some of his best notices in the independent likes of Afterglow, Affliction, The Golden Bowl, Trixie and now, The Good Thief and has given us a galaxy of often tortured, flawed, empathetic human beings.
Like his past addictions, Nick Nolte's heart murmurs have long dissipated and have been replaced by a body of work that he says has fuelled him with renewed vitality.
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 Nick Nolte - Biography
Nolte was well into his thirties when he first received attention for his role as rebellious younger brother Tom Jordache in the ABC miniseries "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1976).
Nolte rebounded as the lawyer whose past (in the shape of Robert De Niro) comes back to haunt him in "Cape Fear" (1991) and scored an even bigger success as Tom Wingo in Barbra Streisand's "The Prince of Tides" (1991), adapted from the Pat Conroy novel.
Nolte choices, while decidedly uncommercial, remained daring and challenging but he was also up for a high-profile blockbuster, taking on the role of Bruce Banner's father in director Ang Lee's psychological interpretation of the Marvel Comics' "Hulk" (2003).
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 Nick Nolte
It concerns Nick Nolte (the main character) and his struggles to overcome the pain and humiliation that accompany alcohol addiction.
Nick Nolte felt his forearm and thought: this is the same forearm I had as a child.
Nick was left standing there on his front steps with tears in his eyes and a pile of mail in his hands.
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 Nick Nolte Unofficial Web Site: the only web site dedicated to Nick Nolte
But Nolte's lawyer, Mark Werksman, said the 61-year-old actor had unwittingly consumed the drug as part of a "weight-lifting concoction." "He was coming home from an appointment, and he had inadvertently consumed this substance earlier that day, and it made him very disoriented, and he was pulled over," Werksman told Reuters.
Nolte calls this his anti-aging regimen and it consists of him eating all organic food, taking 60 various pills (mostly mega doses of vitamins) a day and studying his own blood.
Nolte and put up on the web some photos of him I have from my files and a good central collection of links to all Nick Nolte info that *is* out there on the web as well as links to reviews for all his films.
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 Nick Nolte Biography (Actor) — Infoplease.com
Nick Nolte got a late start in the movies, making his mark at age 35 in the 1976 TV mini-series
Nick Nolte - Nick Nolte actor Born: 2/8/1941 Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska Nominated for an Academy Award in 1991...
Nick Nolte: Caught In The Act by Mel Weiser
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 Nick Nolte @ Filmbug UK
Nolte returned to his theatre roots recently when he starred along with Sean Penn, in the stage production of Sam Shepherd's play The Late Henry Moss.
Nolte, an Omaha, Nebraska native, played college football before he discovered theatre, and began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Nolte continued to challenge himself with such character roles as the philosophical vagrant in DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS; a tough cop in 48 HOURS; an American photojournalist in UNDER FIRE; and a determined lawman in EXTREME PREJUDICE.
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 Amazon.com: Blue Chips: DVD: Nick Nolte,Mary McDonnell,J.T. Walsh,Ed O'Neill,Alfre Woodard,Bob Cousy,Shaquille ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Nick Nolte turns in a superb and convincing performance of a intense, once successful college basketball coach who is desperate to have a competitive team.
Nolte is a whacked out hippie who, through a witness protection program, ends up coaching a college basketball powerhouse.
Nick Nolte does a fine job acting like Bob Knight coaching UCLA, or in this case, the fictional Western Univ. That is until the 'real' Bob Knight coaches Indiana against Nolte's fictional team in the climactic game at the end.
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 Nick Nolte :: The Hulk DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Nolte has sustained a discernible level of integrity throughout his career, leading him to international super-stardom.
Nick Nolte also produces many of the projects in which he appears under the banner of his production company, Kingsgate Films.
Nick Nolte, an Omaha, Nebraska native, played college football before he discovered theatre and began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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