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...turns out that Jelly's boss, Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro), hasn't been feeling well lately. He hasn't been his usual heartless self. He can't beat his enemies to a pulp anymore. "You havin' one of them mind-grains?" Jelly asks. Paul insists he's having a coronary but feels well enough to pound the doctor who dares to tell him it's only an anxiety attack. Jelly decides to be helpful and gives his boss Ben Sobol's business card...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Analyze This Movie | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...best things about going to movies and going to plays once you start acting, I guess, not that I'm even close to professional, it's just fun to watch people on screen or on stage, do certain--have certain idiosyncrasies. Robert De Niro puts his mouth into a little snarl and, very quietly, commands the whole screen, but it's just certain things like that that you just pick up on people. It can be anybody, from people who go here [Harvard], to very famous screen and stage actors, that you can just pick up things and steal [from...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WAKA: A 'VETERAN ROOKIE' | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...script, by J.D. Zeik and Richard Weisz (a pseudonym for David Mamet), applies the term to former CIA and KGB agents who are now obliged to work for terrorists and other international thugs, with no ideology to justify their exertions. It sets a bunch of them--including Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard and Natascha McElhone, all enigmatic and excellent--in expensive, nonstop pursuit of an oddly shaped aluminum suitcase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Abstractly Expressive | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...both hips? In an industry in which public criticism is an unforgivable faux pas if not a cardinal sin, you opened fire on two of show-biz-land's most beloved citizens. First there was the charming advice you told the New York Daily News you gave ROBERT DE NIRO, that he ought to do Shakespeare. "It's ridiculous for an actor that good to keep playing Las Vegas hoods. That's terrible," you said. Never mind that he's only actually played one Las Vegas hood. And then you opined that except for his roles in the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 14, 1998 | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...that Anne Heche is slightly fidgety, her hands nervously shuttling one Camel cigarette after another to her lips? The 29-year-old actress had been on Hollywood's fast track, landing roles opposite stars like Johnny Depp and Al Pacino (Donnie Brasco), Tommy Lee Jones (Volcano) and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog). Then last year--just as she was tapped to share onscreen kisses with Ford in Disney's romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights--she met and fell in love with Ellen DeGeneres, TV's first openly gay leading actress. Overnight, the couple, showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Out On Her Own | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

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