Who cares what Jack Nicholson thinks?

One of my all time favourite comedies is As Good As It Gets with Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear. Great script, brilliant acting, and a stunning portrayal of a person with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Nicholson delivers an acting tour de force in bringing the audience to feel affection and understanding for a person whose casual obnoxiousness has one clenching one's fists at times.

Sure, Jack Nicholson is one of the great movie actors of his time. But, alas, there is no necessary connection between acting ability and moral behaviour, nor is there a necessary connection between acting ability and political judgment. Indeed, Hollywood's record suggests that if there is a connection it's between acting and bad behaviour, and acting and appalling political judgment. Just think of Jane Fonda.

Bill O'Reilly and his regular guest, comic Dennis Miller, had great fun today (Weds 5th in US) on the 'Factor' justly ridiculing Nicholson's political ad supporting Hillary Clinton. Apart for the ridiculous figure that he cut with unruly hair and dopey expression, it comes across as a tremendous presumption that we, the viewer, should take notice simply because he enjoys celebrity through his acting ability.

A close friend should whisper in his ear that he risks not only driving votes away from Hillary Clinton but harming his image as a serious actor.