Jack Nicholson on Monday was named Commander of Arts and Letters, France's top award for excellence in the arts.
``Your angular eyebrows, your ironic smile, your taste for exaggeration have etched out characters who are memorable, sometimes satanic,' Culture Minister Jack Lang said at the ceremony. ``The French public and I share a great fondness for you.'Nicholson said in halting French, reading from a note, ``I hope that the quality of my French will not make you take back this decoration, which I consider a great treasure.'
