De Niro: A Biography
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The life of Hollywood's number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas. Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our time: film portraits like the young Don Vito Corleone in THE GODFATHER II, Jake La Motta in RAGING BULL and Travis Bickle in TAXI DRIVER are some of the most vivid ever put on celluloid. De Niro cannot be cast to type, prefers to work for old friends like Martin Scorsese, and (apart from FRANKENSTEIN) has never played anything but 20th-century roles. John Baxter calls him 'the archetypal empty bottle which only becomes visible when it's filled by a role' which makes him such a tempting subject for one of Hollywood's finest historian/biographers. As well as his film roles, Baxter examines De Niro's often controversial private life, his collaborations with directors like Martin Scorsese and performers like Harvey Keitel and Meryl Streep, and his increasingly ambitious off-screen activities. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0006532306
ISBN13:9780006532309
Release Date:October 2003
Publisher:HarperCollins
Length:384 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:7.8" x 5.1" x 0.0"
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Rated 5 starsLucid study of a great actor's strengths and weaknesses
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For many film fans, Robert DeNiro is still a maverick actor associated with such distinctive films as The Godfather Part II, Mean Streets,1900 and Taxi Driver. Yet as this biography points out, DeNiro has been almost as cavalier with his gifts in recent years as Marlon Brando. There is a surprising amount of new information in this book, especially on DeNiro's relationship with his painter father and the burdens of running...
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