 Jack Nicholson (qv)s performance of "Soliloquy" ("My Boy Bill")  from Rodgers and Hammersteins _Carousel (1956)_ (qv) is a nod to  writer Nora Ephron (qv)s parents, Henry Ephron (qv) and  Phoebe Ephron (qv), who wrote the screenplay for the latter film;  Henry Ephron also produced Carousel.