Word: niro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most powerful labor leaders. Dubuque has the ambience of an industrial town of the 1930s. Another production, The Betsy, about infighting in the auto industry, is, naturally, being shot in Detroit. Much footage for EMI Limited's The Deer Hunter, a blue-collar special starring Robert De Niro, was shot in a bowling alley in Struthers, Ohio, and a U.S. Steel plant in Cleveland. Bette Davis is starring in Harvest Home, a Universal Production for NBC being shot in Conneaut, Ohio...
...many actors, not looking like a shmuck is a 9-to-5 job. De Niro clearly wants much more than that-not just to convince an audience that he grew up holding a sax, or living in Sicily, or playing baseball, but to convince him self. "If only there had been more time" is a constant De Niro refrain...
Sweet and Guarded. Such perfectionism does not mean that De Niro is all work and no play, though it is some times a close thing. He is married to Actress Diahnne Abbott, whose torchy ren dition of Honeysuckle Rose in New York, New York upstages Liza Minnelli's belting. He is the demonstrably proud fa ther of chubby, seven-month-old Raphael (notes Papa earnestly: "He's been laughing since he was a month...
They also have a brownstone in New York's Greenwich Village. In both cities De Niro knows all the joints that are off the map, small Italian restaurants and bars where he orders Black Russians. Several of his friends are people who have come to prominence in Hollywood in the past few years: Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Barry Primus. De Niro is a superior stunt man (pratfall division), and he can put anyone away with a moment of devastating mimicry...
...When De Niro does make the Hollywood scene, he has a cool, humorous sense of who he is. He enjoys going to the Roxy, L.A.'s top rock hangout, and likes to drop in at On the Rox, the club upstairs that is the last word in Hollywood exclusivity. As he was buzzed on through not long ago, a guest asked if he was a member. "No," said De Niro, "but they let me use the place...