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Robert De Niro: The Quiet Man Behind the Tough Guys
Bobby Milk Before he was Travis Bickle, before he was Jake LaMotta, before the world knew his name at all, Robert De Niro was a pale, painfully shy kid in Little Italy that the neighborhood boys called “Bobby Milk.” It was not a compliment. In the New York of the 1950s, toughness was currency, and…
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Gaining Sixty Pounds for Greatness: How Robert De Niro Made Raging Bull
The Fighter Nobody Wanted to Film It is 1974, and Robert De Niro is holding a book he cannot put down. He has just won his first Academy Award for playing the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, he is Hollywood’s brightest rising star, and the book in his hands is a battered…