"Rafelson introduced the band to his friend, a struggling B-movie actor and screenwriter named Jack Nicholson. 'Jack was fabulous,' Tork says. 'We adored him, all of us. Michael practically fell in love with him, in a manly sort of way.' Dolenz agrees: 'He was such a wonderful, charismatic, funny guy. Jack spent a lot of time with us. He hung out on the [TV] set and came out on tour, just picking up the vibe.' One weekend in late 1967, they all decamped to a hotel suite in California's Ojai Valley for a brainstorming session. Amid clouds of pot smoke, they talked all weekend with the tape recorder running. Nicholson then took the tapes and turned the conversations into a screenplay; according to Rafelson, he structured it while on LSD."
In The Guardian, Dorian Lynskey revisits Head, the 1968 movie starring the Monkees.
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