Sex Secrets of Jack Nicholson

Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Erik Hedegaard got to sit on Jack Nicholson's toilet and gaze into Marlon Brando's yard during his interview with Nicholson for the current issue. For this and many other reasons discussed in further detail in the story (on stands Friday; it's the one with Jack's sparkling mug on the cover) our writer may never be the same.

• Jack calls the hours between two and four in the morning his "ass-scratching hours"
• Jack claims never to have bought a condom, but explains, "if I needed a porn picture or something like that, my staff normally does that kind of shopping for me."
• Jack can't remember the word "monogamous," presumably from lack of use in ... life
• Jack estimates that, in terms of age of sexual partners, he's "covered the territory from twenty-one to sixty-one" in the last year

Also in the issue: Contributing Editor Jenny Eliscu hangs with pop hermit Ray LaMontagne, we ponder the actual meaning behind the lyrics to Fergie's "London Bridge," and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wonders: "Will the Next Election Be Hacked?"

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Song Stories

“The Pretender”

Foo Fighters | 2007

This song wasn't part of the planned track listing for 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, and was put together in a day. "It happened after we recorded a lot of stuff," said Dave Grohl. Yet it ended up as the album opener and the lead single. Grohl called it "a stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it." The singer hinted at the lyrics' political overtones: "Everyone's been f---ed over before and I think a lot of people feel f---ed over right now and they're not getting what they were promised."

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