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...nine years removed from his two losses in 65 fights, to Philadelphians Willie ("the Worm") Monroe and Bobby ("Boogaloo") Watts, the champion has finally turned the public corner at 30, after coming down that bravest street in boxing, where Stanley Ketchel, Harry Greb, Tony Zale, Rocky Graziano, Jake LaMotta, Sugar Ray Robinson and all the veterans of middleweight wars hang out. The usual lopsided faces congregated again last week in Las Vegas, not just for the big fight but for LaMotta's sixth wedding. Jake is 0 and 5. In the middle of the ceremony at Joey Maxim's place...
...like last week's in both horror and appreciation, finding equal wonder in savagery and science, one is amazed and a little ashamed that there has always been a class poor enough for this uncivilized business, this simplest sport or this purest art. What can you call it? Jake LaMotta, still married, called it "the best three rounds of fighting I ever seen ." --By Tom Callahan
...been 25 years since Martin Scorsese unleashed his third classic, coming only two years after Taxi Driver proved that the Italian-American movie-maker was no fluke. Robert DeNiro, the star of that movie, appeared again as a powerful figure on the brink of insanity, this time as Jake LaMotta, a real-life former middleweight boxing champion whose power had a tendency to also manifest itself outside the ring, and who followed up boxing with stints in the mob, prison, and stand-up comedy. In honor of this occasion, the Brattle Theater is celebrating with a week of Raging Bull...
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...