Bob Rafelson Productions) -- and gave us "Easy Rider", "Five Easy Pieces", "The Last Picture Show" and "Hearts and Minds", and lamenting the absence of such risk-taking companies today." "Five Easy Pieces" was written by Rafelson and Carole Eastman (under the alias Adrien Joyce) and starred Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Susan Anspach. Nicholson plays Bobby Dupea, a gifted classical piano player who works on an oil rig in California and spends most of his time drinking beer and bowling with his put-upon girlfriend Rayette (Black). Bobby is constantly dissatisfied and a non-conformist, stating: "I move around a lot. Not because I'm
Seven Easy Pieces iconic works by recreating or reinterpreting them in "Seven Easy Pieces", but only with the expressed consent of each of the original artists or their estates. "There's nobody to keep the history straight," she told the "New York Times" in an interview published in early November 2005. "I felt almost, like, obliged. I felt like I have this function to do it." "Seven Easy Pieces" is available on DVD and is considered to be useful for performing arts students who study post-structuralism. "Seven Easy Pieces" comprised seven individual works – two of her own and five by other artists –