A closer look
When you're Jack Nicholson, you don't adjust your life for Hollywood; Hollywood adjusts its life for basketball. When signing on to play the Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman, Nicholson agreed to a massive paycheck but included a bizarrely specific demand. His contract strictly dictated that filming schedules must accommodate all Los Angeles Lakers home games. The producers literally had to pause the multimillion-dollar superhero movie so Jack could sit courtside.






