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...Raging Bull is a film that means the world to me, and when you first see Cathy Moriarty here, she's wearing the upswept hairdo from Raging Bull." In the audience's mind -- which blends past and present, actress and character -- Moriarty can walk out of Jake La Motta's life and into Cesar Castillo...
...expectations. It plunders film history (The Night of the Hunter, Psycho, even Spielberg's shooting stars) and creates, in De Niro's character, a loner driven to impossible extremes by the voices inside him. He is brother to Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle and Raging Bull's Jake La Motta, and evil twin to Jesus in Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ...
Raging Bull (1980). Realism so intense it transcends and transforms the ugly banalities of boxer Jake La Motta's life. The talents of Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese turn the film into a crazy-angry vision of the American Lower Depths...
Well, the Soviets have seen this show before. And while it appears that Reagan has come out on top in the first act, the Gipper would do well to remember the words of another great coach, Dick Motta, who during the 1977 NBA Championships warned the denizens of the nation's capital that, "the opera isn't over 'til the fat lady sings...
...standing affection for the sport is suggested by a wallet photo he carries of his wife wearing No. 37 on her old school pinafore. The marketer of the franchise is Norm Sonju, who learned how not to do it in Buffalo, and the coach of the team is Dick Motta, who presided over previous successes in Chicago and Washington. For stars, Motta makes do with Mark Aguirre and Rolando Blackman...