
Director: Martin ScorseseEntertainment grade: AHistory grade: A– Jake LaMotta was boxing's world middleweight champion between 1949 and 1951. The film begins in 1941, with Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro) fighting in the ring and fighting his first wife, Ida. It's shocking – though not as shocking as in an earlier draft of the screenplay, in which he was to be shown kicking and...
guardian.co.uk (12 days ago)

Oscar winner Martin Scorsese has sign on as an executive producer of East Greenwich native Chad Verdi's film about the life of Rhode Island boxing legend Vinny Paz, according to Verdi. Verdi, who bought the rights to the Vinny Paz story in 2009, said five different writers had worked on the project. He said it was his personal mission to make the movie, and he had already...
providencejournal.com (8 days ago)

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nj.com (30 days ago)

Robert De Niro is a legendary actor who heads into Sunday's Academy Awards with two Oscars already under his belt. He hoisted his first statuette in 1975 for "The Godfather, Part II." De Niro won Best Supporting Actor for his gripping turn as Vito Corleone. Remember this? Just half a decade later, De Niro once again found himself giving an acceptance speech at the Oscars....
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 29 days ago)

Fifty years ago, a young, ambitious Italian farmboy by the name of Ferruccio Lamborghini decided his talent for mechanical enhancement, engineering and marketing would be better served designing high-performance automobiles. Since 1963 Lamborghini has seen its share of bad relationships and financial hardship, but has still managed to create some of the most extreme and...
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Firaxis Games hosted a panel at PAX East on Saturday where it teased what appears to be a sequel to the hit PS3, Xbox 360 and PC strategy game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown.Lead designer Jake Solomon set the stage for...
examiner.com (2 months ago)
Sam Ronson is paying for the (alleged) crimes of her pit bull in cold hard cash after she finally settled with the woman who sued her for the death of her pooch ... TMZ has learned. As we first reported, Sam's pit bull Cadillac allegedly mauled her…
tmz.com (1 month and 21 days ago)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15000 points Tuesday for the first time, and it and is off to its fastest start to any year since the raging bull market of 1999. Take a look back at photos and key milestones.
wsj.com (14 days ago)

Jake Bugg is only 19 years old but his mix of folk and rock evokes an older tradition On his debut album Jake Bugg the British singer-songwriter saunters strums and opens up across 14 unhurried tracks Opener "Lightning Bolt" stomps along with lively electric guitar while the single "Two Fingers"...
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Marian Donato stirred her homemade chili, wearing a pair of sunglasses with red lenses shaped like chili peppers, doing what she loves.
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