----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Renato, I sympathize with your deep feeling about Antonioni. A lot of people writing on this list have neglected to mention, if they noticed, that Jack Nicholson was responsible, in fact, for a MAJOR collaboration with Antonioni, because his performance was very much at the core of THE PASSENGER. I thought it interesting to see that shot on the screen behind him, and to see his face. Those who think he was cynical, I think, have entirely missed the fact that he was himself on the verge of tears at that moment.