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...played a deranged cab-driver, an aggressively tattooed ex-con with revenge fantasies, several Mob bosses and an animated shark, but in few guises does Robert De Niro strike more fear into the heart of people than when they're interviewing him. TIME sent its most talkative editor to the office of the famously tight-lipped star, a few blocks from ground zero, for a conversation about The Good Shepherd, his second directorial effort (the first was 1993's A Bronx Tale...
...told through the life of Edward Wilson, an agency stalwart loosely based on long-serving counterintelligence chief James Jesús Angleton, and tracks the price that a life of secrecy can exact. Despite the stellar cast - Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt and Alec Baldwin - it took De Niro, 63, and his producing partner Jane Rosenthal nearly eight years to get the film made. Although still not chatty, the star had quite a bit to say about the movie business, why he does comedies, and the prospect of competing for an Oscar against his longtime friend, director Martin Scorsese...
...nails the character’s cocky arrogance and, playing off his Bay State roots, delivers the best Bostonian accent in the film. You would think one thirtysomething blond superstar would be enough. But no, DiCaprio—who has obviously replaced Robert De Niro as Scorsese’s new muse—gives a very energetic and passionate performance as well. After his work in “The Aviator” and now in this film, DiCaprio and Scorses are definitely doing something right. Watching his face, he doesn’t resemble the young, iconic figure...
...perplexing poster hangs in theoffice of Omar Minaya, general manager of the New York Mets, the newly minted champions of the National League's Eastern Division. It's a promo for A Bronx Tale, a 1993 film starring Robert De Niro about a boy who gets mixed up with the Mob. Why is the word Bronx--as in Bronx Bombers, as in New York Yankees, as in Evil Empire--displayed prominently at the Yanks' crosstown rival? It turns out that Minaya, who grew up a fly ball from Shea Stadium in Queens rooting for the Mets, loves the movie...
More recently Fernndez has been pitching his island as a site for movie productions. He hired a Florida firm to act as the country's national film commission, and he had Robert De Niro over for lunch at the Presidential Palace...