Love, not politics, tops Nicholson's "bucket list" (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Standing in the shower before the Tokyopremiere of his movie "The Bucket List," Jack Nicholsoncontemplated his own "bucket list" of last great goals, thethree-time Oscar winner said on Wednesday.

Easing tensions between the West and Islam would be apolitical goal, the actor said, but it was having "one last biglove" that topped his list.

"Many of my friends, my own contemporaries, have said intheir life that they would like one last big romance to occur,so that would be on my list also," the 71-year-old performersaid.

"I thought in the shower today (that) it'd been manypolitical things I'd like, but of course I'm not in control ofthat."

Nicholson, who stars in the movie along with MorganFreeman, another septuagenarian Oscar-winner, said he did nothave a formal list of things to do before he dies, or 'kicksthe bucket', as the cliche has it, but offered the ideas asexamples.

In the film Nicholson and Freeman play cancer patients whoshare the same cramped hospital room and same incurabledisease.

Nicholson plays the millionaire owner of a hospital chainwhose two patients to every room motto sees him assigned to aroom with Freeman, the black owner of a garage who had to dropout of college early to support his family.

Freeman's character has the idea of making a "bucket list"of all the things he'd like to do before dying, and Nicholsonfinances the trip for both of them as their friendshipblossoms.

During the trip, the pair go sky-diving, visit the Pyramidsand the Serengeti in Africa and dine in fine restaurants.

Reuters/Nielsen