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...filming III, what was needed was not literal fighting but its illusion-i.e., choreography. Says Al Silvani, who trained Rocky Graziano and actors in boxing roles from Paul Newman to Robert De Niro: "I taught Stallone how to box starting with II, but he did the choreography on his own. He'd say, O.K., Three left me.' " hooks The and I'll jab blow-by-blow you, dance then you script for jab the 9½ minutes of the final bout of III covered 14 pages. Says Stallone: "The fight choreography is very precise. Miss...
...evidence last week, that he made at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., on New Year's Eve 1980. By then he had become infatuated with Foster after seeing Taxi Driver as many as 15 times. In the movie, a crazed cabbie, played by Robert De Niro, sets out to assassinate a presidential candidate in an attempt to impress a child prostitute, played by Foster. Hinckley so identified with the film's anti-hero that he bought an Army fatigue jacket and took to drinking peach brandy, as did De Niro's character...
...think they're all just variations on the same role," he says. "An actor doesn't have to inhabit a role, contrary to popular belief. What actors want to be, they become: that's why they get schticks sometimes--it's something they want-to do. Someone like De Niro, who is said to 'become his role'--I think it's just variations on what he likes. Because somewhere in every movie he makes, he's in a position where he can go like this...
...even the plot raises some troubling questions. It concerns the efforts of a young and ambitious priest named Desmond Spellacy (De Niro), and his brother, Tom an L.A. detective (Duvall), to resolve the gruesome murder of a young and fallen lady. Tom's investigations lead (inconclusively) to one of the biggest contributors to the Catholic Church in southern California, the archdiocese in which Desmond's considerable ambitions lie. To its credit, True Confessions does not seek a tidy ending that will send the folks home happy, but rather explores the complication and ambiguities of this sordid situation; the message...
...dwell excessively on True Confessions' failings is to treat it--and the viewer--unfairly. De Niro alone makes the experience worthwhile. The role is somewhat uncharacteristic; as a priest, he must keep his emotions and lusts hidden, but their supression makes them that much more interesting. The desire for power dominates Des, consumes him; he revels in bureaucratic wars as well as more public displays of his control. Yet the genius of De Niro's Des is that he knows how badly he wants power, and he senses how tenuous his position might be--in both practical and moral terms...