Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face it gang, these are not very exciting times, and if you're trying to bang out a coherent weekly sports column, these times are downright boring...
...Bang...
Well, he sports a beard and lightened hair for his role as a young steelworker in The Deer Hunter, now being shot on location near Pittsburgh. That must be it: De Niro does not look like De Niro. But then neither did the flat-out dumb baseball catcher in Bang the Drum Slowly, the moody aristocrat in 1900, the murderous psychopath in Taxi Driver, the elegantly upholstered movie mogul in The Last Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except...
...tried any other. Given the results, he would obviously be crazy to stop now. The son of two Greenwich Village artists, De Niro was only 16 when he snared his first serious acting jobs. Some 14 lean years and much obsessive labor followed before he gained wide recognition in Bang the Drum Slowly. Only two years later, in 1975, he won an Academy Award for his role as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II. "I wasn't what you call an attractive person...
Suddenly, Dr. Fried and Deborah are toasting each other in a too sweet victory celebration, which is capped by upbeat footage of Deborah and her now cured friend gamboling in the countryside near the hospital. After a good many touching and vivid moments, the film ends not with a bang but a simper...