The morning after Jack Nicholson first slept at Simon’s apartment, she was surprised to wake up and find him in bed making a series of business calls. “Jack’s phone voice--and his entire persona--was supremely assured,” she recalled. “At the same time, I couldn’t help but think he was trying to impress me with the caliber of the people he was calling. He tossed out nicknames left and right. Candice Bergen was ‘Bugs,’ Art Garfunkel was ‘Artie the Garf,’ and it took me a few seconds to realize that ‘Mike the Nick’ was Mike Nichols.” Soon, he divulged that he was seeing another woman besides Simon who he was developing serious feelings for. Simon’s response: “I really like seeing you, and I’m glad you told me before I invited you to my wedding in which you were my groom.” Nicholson called Simon a “funny one,” and that was that. While the singer’s ego was bruised, she’d only met Nicholson a handful of times and didn’t have a deep attraction to him. “The end of my brief fling with Jack,” she wrote, “was akin to a promising summer rental that gets canceled at the last minute.”