More than a week ago, emailed a cult figure in the Philippine film industry, whose involvement in filmmaking stretched all the way back in the 70s, immediately after being discharged from the U.S.Navy...Nick Nicholson has been there,done that, the good,the bad and the totally ugly when it came to movies shot in Hollywood-friendly Philippines from cameo roles in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now to Oliver Stone's Platoon and in B-films done by the legendary Cirio Santiago and the venerable Eddie Romero.
In his informative but incomplete website at http://nicknicholson.250free.com, he promises to release an insider's point-of-view book called 'Fish Heads and Rice' about the secret history of Hollywood/Filipino film coproduction. But the book han't seen the light of day as of present time.
While researching Filipino pulp cinema of the 70s and 80s, I learned that he has virtually retired from the film business since 1997,when he started to have heart problems. This month, he will undergo the surgeon's knife after being diagnosed with cancer and he's doubtful if he would survive the operation. Nick as already delegated the task of publishing his manuscript to someone else.
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