Jack Nicholson once explained, “With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.”

The comment was made some 28 years ago, long before Nicholson’s current life laying low and, as reported in The Post, “looking wobbly” at the Carlyle in Los Angeles.

As he nears 90, a recent photo showed him walking with a cane . But over the course of his hell-raising, women-chasing, drug-consuming decades in the 70s and 80s, he spent a lot of time wearing sunglasses.

The iconic Jack Nicholson of yore has been a model for every charismatic, sometimes toxic, male star ever since – Nicholson’s stretch of Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills is not known as Bad Boy Drive for nothing – as he lived a life rife with drugs, sex and debauchery.

The recently unearthed example of his o

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