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...ring is where Scorsese's art is most alive, because it is where Jake (Robert De Niro) lives, where he can do battle on equal terms, playing by hard men's rules. It is where Jake's life finally achieves meaning when he wins the title and is embraced by his idol, Joe Louis -and where the paradigmatic club fighter loses the bout, the title and several quarts of blood in his 1951 match with the stylish Robinson. Indeed, Jake has lost everything but the pride that propels him over to the new champ's corner...
...must have played I Just Can't Stop It at least a half dozen times before even beginning to zero in on the lyrics--they whizz by so quickly. "Mirror in the Bathroom" eloquently mocks self-possession, while the protagonist in "Click Click" is like Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. Suck on this: "Open your mouth/Slide the barrel in/If you don't like it/Just don't do it again." Great poetry! This fascination with power also runs through such songs as "Hands Off ... She's Mine" and "Big Shot," which throws darts at our leaders and points...
MARRIED. Martin Scorsese, 36, American film director (Taxi Driver, Mean Streets); and Italian Actress-Journalist Isabella Rossellini, 27, daughter of Screen Star Ingrid Bergman and the late director Roberto Rossellini; he for the third time, she for the first; in Bracciano, Italy, with Actor Robert De Niro as best...
...school and its surroundings, though, a few things remained very much the same in February. Ec 10, "Principles of Economics" and Hum 9b, "Oral and Popular Tradition in Literature," ruled for another semester as the College's most popular courses, and the Hasty Pudding brought Robert De Niro and Candace Bergen to town for the best actor and actress of the year awards. Handed the traditional pot, De Niro could only say, "It doesn't have any pudding in it. I thought it would. But thanks anyway...
There can be no quarrel about the acting. De Niro, Walken, John Savage, as an other Clairton pal who goes to war, and Meryl Streep, as a woman left behind, are all top actors in extraordinary form...