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Robert DeNiro is an Academy Award and Golden Globe award winning film actor, director and producer. Some of the best know movies in his filmography include The Godfather, Part II; Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Cape Fear and A Bronx Tale.
Robert DeNiro is an Academy Award and Golden Globe award winning film actor, director and producer. Some of the best know movies in his filmography include The Godfather, Part II; Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Cape Fear and A Bronx Tale.
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Impressionist Fred Travalena dies at 66
zachary.dowdy@newsday.comIn 1971, Patchogue resident Fred Travalena packed his bags and headed west for Las Vegas to launch an enormously successful career doing impressions. The Bronx native could, through his flair for imitation, morph his voice to fondly mock the...Tags: Movies, Television, Celebrity, Shirley MacLaine, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (tv program)
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Tribeca Film Festival Mini-Review No. 3
WatchdogThe showcase event of the Tribeca/ESPN Film Festival is Spike Lee's "Kobe Doin' Work." Three dozen or so cameras shot a miked-for-sound Kobe Bryant during a mid-April game against the Spurs last season, then Bryant sat with Lee and narrated......Tags: Phil Jackson, Movies, Cheryl Hines, Kobe Bryant, New York Knicks
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Francis Ford Coppola's 'Tetro' debuts quietly
rafer.guzman@newsday.comThe latest effort from Francis Ford Coppola opens quietly Thursday at just one New York theater, the Sunshine Cinema in Manhattan. The movie, "Tetro," marks Coppola's first original screenplay since 1974's "The Conversation." It's the latest small-scale...Tags: New York, Movies, Al Pacino, Francis Ford Coppola, Hofstra University
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Late-night beginnings and memorable moments
Here's a look back how other late-night hosts began and ended their stints: Show " The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" ( NBC) First guest Groucho Marx, Oct. 1, 1962 Memorable moment Marx introducing Carson? You can't beat that. Final guests Robin...Tags: Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (tv program), Tom Brokaw, Abe Vigoda, Robin Williams
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Mickey Rourke nominated for Oscar as pro wrestler
WatchdogMickey Rourke was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, to the surprise of no one. If we stretch the definition of sports to include pro wrestling, he could join a small, quirky list of actors who have won the......Tags: Movies, Hilary Swank, Mickey Rourke, Tom Hanks, Charlton Heston
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Peter Puck was a towering media figure in the 1970s
WatchdogExcellent job out of Fang's Bites rounding up these old Peter Puck episodes from the 1970s. I quite enjoy Sundays in late February and early March. No NFL, no March Madness, no baseball. Nothing but cold drizzle and the numbing......Tags: Hilary Swank, NBA, NHL, Harold Lloyd, Mickey Rourke
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Lillo Brancato Speaks to ABC
The TV Zone"20/20" tomorrow night has a somewhat interesting (read: somewhat self-serving) interview with Lillo Brancato - convicted in January for his role in the murder of off-duty NYPD cop Daniel Enchautegui. The onetime "Sopranos" actor tells Chris Connelly that...Tags: New York City Police Department, Jail (tv program), Celebrity, Chazz Palminteri, Trials
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FC's TOP 5: Best Picture Nominees that SHOULD HAVE won (but didn't)
It's Oscar time and that leads to lots of lists, second guessing and just outright guessing. So it should not at all be surprising that the latest Flick Chick list spotlights the Top 5 movies nominated for Best Picture but lost to far inferior...Tags: John Ford, Movies, Jake LaMotta, Martin Scorsese
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Al Pacino measures up to Napoleon
Zap2It.comThe Godfather will step into the shoes of one of history's most famous misunderstood bad guys. Al Pacino will star as Napoleon Bonaparte in Killer Films' adaptation of "Betsy and the Emperor," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Staton Rabin's 2004...Tags: Al Pacino, Righteous Kill (movie), The Godfather (movie)
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Oscar trivia
Economies around the globe are melting down. The U.S. is embroiled in multiple armed conflicts with no easy exits.
So who cares what five Oscar winners have played superheroes in their careers? Chances are, you do. That's why you're reading this. Test...Tags: Stevie Wonder, Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hilary Swank, Judi Dench
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Gangster Rap
"A great city in the dead of night...streets lonely...moon clouded...buildings as empty as the cave dwellings of a forgotten age." Seconds after these words fade from the screen in the 1927 crime saga "Underworld,"—ka-BOOM!—an explosion,...Tags: David Mamet, Al Capone, Rosalind Russell, Organized Crime, Heath Ledger
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Goodbye darkness, hello light: A recession-era Oscar telecast is full of feel-good moments
AP National WriterMaybe it was the adorable smile on that "Slumdog Millionaire" kid in his pint-sized tuxedo. Or best director winner Danny Boyle bouncing in silly tribute to Tigger of "Winnie the Pooh." The grinning, top-hatted dad of best actress winner Kate Winslet,...Tags: Sean Penn, Celebrity, Shirley MacLaine, Heath Ledger, Danny Boyle
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