Though having appeared in recent TV shows and movies, Nick Nolte is best known today to the younger generation for his infamous mug shot (right) after a DUI arrest in 2002. For years that photo was grist for late-night comics.
Hearing him referred to as the "sexiest man alive" in a 1992 episode of
Murder, She Wrote reminded us that Nick Nolte was once a Hollywood leading man.
He burst upon the scene in the ABC mini-series
Rich Man, Poor Man, which was must-see TV. In 1976 there were still only three networks, and most Americans didn't have video-recorders (the Sony Betamax had just been introduced in 1975). So we had to be home every Monday night for twelve weeks to see RMPM. It was a television event, the second highest-rated show for the 1975-76 season.
Now 78, Nick Nolte has
"ditched the booze, drugs and cigarettes that used to control his life." We wish him well.
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