Word: deniro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slouching toward him, at an angle--The thing about Robert DeNiro is this: the moment you look at him on the screen you get the feeling that he is burning with some sort of impacted, very, very serious kind of personal dare that doesn't include you except as an alienated admirer. He looks as if he's on to something, as if there's some issue he won't ever let go until he wins or gets pulled down by it. He's going to force it, and he just can't stop. "This is a very... intense...
...LAST FIVE YEARS, THE cinematic treatment of war has been anything but regular. In Coming Home war was a sociological case study. Michael Cimino attempted in The Deerhunter to create a charged-up folk tale complete with Robert DeNiro as an MIG-toting ubermensch. And in Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola made war something mythic; something so big and so surreal that one wondered who was playing The Ride of the Valkyries after all. But in Australian director Peter Weir's Gallipoli, there is something of a retrenchment, at least intellectually. In the movie, war does not get treated...
...cases--an increasingly bizarre trip through the reaches of what pilots call the envelope--a theory of music, of being, a crypto-musical little speech which marks the real opening of Shepard's floodgates. When Petrone, a neighboring saxophonist (played by Nick Wyse looking for all the world like DeNiro in New York, New York) and Laureen, a neighboring bass player (Grace Shohet), arrive, an inner circle rears its head, signalling the end of the commonplace relationship which have gone thus far. And even then Niles himself (Brian McCue) arrives with his compatriot Paulette (Bonnie Zimering) and the play becomes...
...ready to grieve over its tarnished honor and indomitable spirit. Despite its relentlessly bland directorial style, its contrived, overdone script, its torturous three-hour length, The Deer Hunter moved audiences with its sheer emotional power. The movie got all its force from an amazing cast that included Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken, Cimino, though, was a talented, but unimaginative, amateur: it was obvious in every frame. Yet the movie "touched a chord." While the socially conscious called it narrow-minded and racist--declaiming it as a disgusting, reactionary lie--most critics drooled over it. One critic...
...Hasty Pudding awards "The Man of the Year" annually to "that performer who has made the most outstanding contribution to the performing arts." Recent recipients have included Paul Newman, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, and Johnny Carson...