Close to midnight in 1928, the St. Francis dam near Los Angeles suddenly collapsed —the largest man-made disaster in California history. Fifty years later, screenwriter Robert Towne would use its details and characters as the foundation for “Chinatown”, making Jack Nicholson and his cigarette one of Hollywoods biggest stars. Two decades after that, Dan Akroyd ushered me and few others into a secret back room at his L.A. House of Blues where I shared a different sort of cigarette with Jack Nichol

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