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...here he is, ROBERT DE NIRO, minding his own business in a New York City bar, when this paparazzo, this JOSEPH LIGIER, shoves a video camera in his face. De Niro allegedly grabs the guy's hair; the photog files assault charges. And then the real drama starts. Ligier's attorney calls De Niro's people and offers to drop the charges in return for, say, $300,000. De Niro and his lawyers decide to play along. The attorneys negotiate the price down to $150,000, and the cash payoff takes place in a limo--with cops listening in. Bingo...
...know it has to be a Martin Scorsese film when it stars ROBERT DE NIRO and ... DON RICKLES? "Marty said I have the perfect face for Las Vegas," says the veteran comic, who seems to think that's a compliment. In Casino, due out in November, Rickles plays casino manager Billy Sherbet. He hasn't one funny line, but made up for it between takes. "Everyone told me Bob was a serious actor, but within days he was my slave," says Rickles. "The man was laughing at 'Hello' and killing himself at 'Hello, Bob.' " Casting Rickles wasn't the only...
...paranoid rhapsodies continue in "Great Prentenders," an essay on the dominance of a thespian conspiracy in modern society--the idea that your neighbors, for example, are not really neighbors, but actors hired by realestate salesmen to convey the image of an ideal neighborhood. Leyner calls this the "De Niro-ization' of culture...Migratory shifts back and forth from the real to the simulacrum [that] will calibrate the rest of history." "The Mary Poppins Kidnapping" pokes fun at the over-sensitive parents who worry that all forms of media, even the innocuous products of Disney, are dangerous influences on the impressionable...
Robert De Niro has the nasty task of undergoing 12 hours of makeup to become a monster who looks like a sloppily assembled Freddy Kruger, Branagh apparently can't sew, either. De Niro does make the monster into a sympathetic human-like character, but that character bears a striking resemblance to Robert De Niro with a lisp under several pounds of latex. John Cleese and Tom Hulce are welcome diversions from Branagh's well-oiled chest...
Branaugh's latest vision--De Niro slathed in what appears to be Freddy Kruger's discarded latex--demands comparison to Boris Karloff"s popular 1931 interpretation of the monster. The Brattle Theatre's current series, "The Monster Within," provides an opportunity to re-examine Karloff's nifty neck bolts, and several films inspired by Mary Shelley's myth. Each presents a version of Shelley which contributes in various ways to our understanding of her classic work...