Robert De Niro
Subtitle: portrait of a legend
By: John Parker
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781784185381; 9781336184923; 9781844546398
Subjects: Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: With his breathtaking 1973 breakthrough performance in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets De Niro forged an enormously fruitful collaboration&#x97;resulting in Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas, films which, alongside his roles in the likes of The Godfather Part Two, The Deer Hunter, and Once Upon a Time in America, read like a list of the top Hollywood films of the last 30 years. As a method actor De Niro lives and breathes his roles, notoriously gaining 60lbs for Raging Bull and learning to play the saxophone for New York, New York, while in recent years, films such as Analyze This and Meet th.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Contents; 1: New York, New York; 2: Method and Madness; 3: Momma's Boy; 4: Enter Scorsese; 5: Roman Adventure; 6: 'You Talking to Me ...?'; 7: A Tycoon of Sorts; 8: Songs and Lovers; 9: The Hunter and the Hunted; 10: In and Out of Character; 11: Money and Myths; 12: Comedy Without Laughter; 13: Once Upon a Time ... ; 14: Mission Impossible; 15: Big Al; 16: Looking for Control; 17: Changing Direction; 18: Quick-fire Solutions; 19: Modern Times; 20: Debut Director; 21: Diversification; 22: Mogul; Filmography; Copyright.