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DIED. VICKI LAMOTTA, 75, voluptuous blond whose marriage to boxer Jake LaMotta was portrayed in the Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull; in Boca Raton, Fla. At 26, with three children in tow, she left her husband, who had become agitated adjusting to retirement. At 51, after Raging Bull's release, she posed nude for Playboy, saying she wanted to show that life doesn't stop...
DECISION Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner. De Niro picked up his one and only Best Actor statue for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta...
...After Tomorrow came yesterday. As a sunless Sunday revealed an Arctic expanse, one almost expected to see Jake Gyllenhaal scampering down Mt. Auburn St., pursued by a pack of roving wolves (or at least members of the Fox Club). But take a step back in time—Saturday had been even worse. Exam-burdened students familiar with the punishments of cold, white, unforgiving academics spent hours becoming acquainted with the trials of cold, white, unforgiving precipitation. Irish-literature students’ souls swooned slowly as they heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like...
Months before the assault, Jake Roenick (Ethan Hawke) led a botched sting operation that resulted in the deaths of some of his team. Now he is steeped in fear and failure; he has the fretful eyes of a dog awaiting its master's familiar kick. So he can't be surprised when two things go wrong in sleepy Precinct 13. First, a batch of criminals arrives, including assassin Marion Bishop (Laurence Fishburne). Then all hell breaks loose outside and tries to break in, presumably to spirit Bishop out of custody...
...also wrings awkward humor out of the small humiliations of actor life, as when Bryan does an ER episode and forgets cast member Deezer D's name. ("You probably thought I was Mekhi Phifer," says the peeved African-American actor.) Best is the relationship between Krista and her son Jake (Allen's adorable real son Jake Moritt, 7, the show's breakout), who gets cast in a movie Krista tries out for. Soon she's going to kiddie auditions--at one a show-biz mom advises her to get his ears surgically tucked--and finding her answering machine filled with...