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Old Nick

Satan himself. [Western Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 755]
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The Los Angeles band Sasquatch will be playing its rock music on Wednesday at Old Nick's Pub.
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He is unaware she was abducted as a teenager by a man called Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), who is holding them hostage.
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The boy is blissfully unaware that Ma was abducted as a teenager by a man called Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), who is holding them hostage.
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The boy is blissfully unaware that Ma was abducted as a teenager a man called Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), who is holding them hostage.
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"In Room." After years of suffering, Ma concocts a daring plan to get Jack away from Old Nick and hopefully into the arms of her parents Robert (William H Macy) and Nancy (Joan Allen).
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Donoghue's script is masterful and the simple, yet evocative, production design induces a sense of choking claustrophobia that has us biting our nails down to the cuticle in the hope that Jack at least might wriggle free of Old Nick's iron grasp.
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They made their own props, like aluminum foil measuring cups and little toys and ornaments scattered throughout, while Tobman and his set decorator tried to get inside the head of the kidnapper, Old Nick. "We needed to limit ourselves to his own economic, geographic and tempo limitations," Tobman says.
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I must have been number one, even old Nick was knocking on the door one night.
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Young Jack and his mother, Ma, are permanently locked inside a small room - their interaction with the outside world limited to television and occasional visits from the sinister Old Nick. This genre-bending take on reality is written with verve, beauty and imagination by Donoghue, as she describes the loving but often strained relationship between mother and child, Jack's attempts to make sense of a world he knows little about and how his mother struggles to deal with her fate.
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This, along with other semiotic misadventures (such as conflating Saint Nick and Old Nick), leads Arnold to an interest in linguistics that, intriguingly, foreshadows, rather than emerges from, the challenges his last name will later come to pose.
The Education of Arnold Hitler
Outside work, 25 year old Nick is interested in sports including football, tennis and golf.
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Among them is Asteroth, a minion of the Old Nick himself, disguised as a female with false feet over his hooves.
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