European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Howard Rosenberg los Angeles times it docs take All kinds. Unfortunately. Some humans Are oblivious to suffering some insensitive to it some in denial. Others occupy another category entirely seeming to take sheer Delight in the pain of other beings. Judge for yourself about that slab had Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh two weeks ago devoted a portion of his syndicated television show to ridiculing criticism of a today program cooking segment. In that segment a live lobster had its Tail Cut off and its body Slit and opened before being saute cd a still writhing a in a pan As co Host Katie Couric stood nearby saying a what a Way to  the segment was rerun and criticism of it mocked by Limbaugh in a manner that was crude even by his standards. As the poor live lobster was being sliced open and pan Fried the Gleeful Limbaugh provided lobster in pain sound effects a a Pooh of ouch ouch a while his studio crowd of sycophants greeted his Low burlesque with laughter. Limbaugh loves to taunt and pull the chains of those with whom he disagrees. The jeer having no intellectual basis  an end in itself Limbaugh a motivation being that thinkers ahead of the curve sometimes make easy targets. He is the kind of Guy who would have hooted at Copernicus. According to experts on invertebrates by the Way lobsters Are Complex creatures that have a brain and sensitivity to pain. That immediately elevates them above some to and radio talk show personalities. As for Couric the recoiling horror she cd pressed while the live lobster was being dismembered and Fried in front of her was obviously feigned Given her smirking review of the incident during a recent appearance on the late show with David Leffe Marj. Playing to a studio audience that found it All very humorous she euphemistically likened the usual method of boiling lobsters alive to giving them a  meanwhile today got an unwanted visitor during mondays debut of its widely publicized studio set whose Street level panoramic windows allow pedestrians to observe the show and be observed themselves. Visible through a window was a 7-foot a a lobster on assignment from people for ethical treatment of animals. The sign it was waving read a no lobsters today.�?�. A for hi30 subscribers the funniest talk show Host on television is not weepy Sally. Jessy Raphael feisty Jay Leno or even the celebrated David Letterman. It s Larry Sanders who in reality Isnit a talk show Host at All. He a fictional. The Larry Sanders show stars Garry Shan doing As the insecure neurotic self obsessed much in need of therapy Host of a traditional late night talk show. But when the cameras red Light comes on he a transformed. As always the acting is so artfully straight faced and the scripts so full of in the know nuance that the Larry Sanders show seems to reek of behind the scenes television reality. A Wolf review on Page 12the women and Wolf of Jack Nicholson by Luaine Lee Scripps Howard 4w pm an old softy who probably believes that i the love of a Good woman will save you a i says Jack Nicholson smiling that cryptic b smile that seems both warm and wicked at the same time. Nicholson Speaks from experience. He has been involved with some of Hollywood a most glamorous women. But one has yet to save him. A i done to Ever lie to women a he says. A i done to Ever slant to women. I was a repressed teen Agar because i Don t Ever play the immediate fashion of How to get the girls to like you. I did no to know then that was what i was doing. That was simply my  Nicholson a inclinations Are a Surprise. The Man who avoids the press As though he had something to hide reveals himself with astonishing Candor. He Hei ther blushes nor equivocate but faces questions Square on even though he grumbles that talking with the press can be a a mine  a women say i do this to an extreme i done to Tell them what to do. I done to say this is what 1 am this is where in a Gonna be this is what we re going to  in my private fearful moments a i am an honest person a i look on it this attitude As a possible personality weakness. It docs cause some of my discomforts in life. On the other hand i can to do it. 1 can to dictate relationships. I get too much out of them. I done to want to Tell someone who they Are so i can relate to them. In a interested honestly in who. They  Nicholson who was divorced in 1968 from Sandra Knight had a 15-year Liaison with actress Anjelica Huston. He has a grown daughter from his marriage a son a who works for can a by actress Susan Anspaugh and two Small children by Rebecca Broussard from whom he is separated. He claims he never exercised much control Over romantic relationships. T be always been ready to Settle Down if that was the thing to do. In Pri vat life i m always telling people i did not expect to be this Way. But i done to think you can come up with a relationship Angle that i Haven t had to experience one Way or another. And having gone around All the angles All in be got to say is there s nothing to  experience Hasni to helped. A i can to say a this works  All this experience did t galvanize into a this is the Way pm going to by Type of  no matter How Check ered his personal life it seems that his career has always come first Ever since he left Home at 17 to try his Luck in Hollywood. A i just realized a few years ago i be always thought of myself As a relatively Lazy though driven person. And the thought came to me rather late in life wait a minute. You give your life to this. This is not a  i be been doing it 40 years almost. And i suddenly realize in be never made a movie that was easy to make. Never. Some Are fun but they re All hard. And when i m working i m totally involved. I can to run a marriage a Stock portfolio. I can to do anything else but  Nicholson a latest obsession is a reworking of the Werewolf talc Wolf. He agrees that a the theme of the Wolf is a sexual  and Wolf is a variation on the theme in which Nicholson a Wolf is both empowered and victimized by the curse. Whether he a playing the hirsute menace in Wolf the aging astronaut in terms of endearment the Iron willed colonel in a few Good men or the rational loony in one flew Over the cuckoos nest there has always been a sexual Energy about him that pleases men and intrigues women. Nicholson was reared by women. He was raised by his grandmother Ethel May whom he thought was his Mother. His Grandfather was an alcoholic who deserted his family. His Mother was actually one of his  it Wasny to until after she died that he Learned the truth. Columbia Jack Nicholson discovers his wild Side in Job of which opens Friday in cafes movie Heaters