Robert De Niro

The Big Wedding is Vile, Racist, and Embarrassing

Travis Bickle and Annie Hall deserve better

Susan Tyrrell: "I Don't Like Watching My Tits Fall"

Susan Tyrrell, who died the other day, got recognized for her full-throttle acting when she was Oscar-nominated for John Huston's Fat City, the 1972 drama in which she played a spiteful alkie who throws herself into a fading boxer's life. But in 1983, SuSu told me her life didn't change after that ... More >>

DRESS TO KILL

Find sartorial inspiration at this festival

De Niro to Potential Republican First Ladies: Fuggedaboutit

Can you imagine any other First Lady in the Oval Office other than Michelle? Robert De Niro can't. Last night, at his trendy TriBeCa restaurant, Locanda Verde, the star of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull packed 85 wealthy Obama supporters into a fundraiser dinner, where tickets started at $5,000 a head ... More >>

Celebrity Dressing Room Demands! Crazy S**t!

I demand that Us magazine keeps printing the contractual demands that celebs make for their well-stocked dressing rooms, flights, and other appearances. It's just so entertaining and revealing, both in the celebs' nervy hauteur and in their occasional crassness and bad taste. The current one has g ... More >>

Being Flynn Can't Stop Telling Us Exactly What To Feel

Fathers and sons in suck city

Bradley Cooper: Gay Vibe?

​ The diverse grouping of Bradley Cooper, Abbe Cornish, and Robert DeNiro costar in the new movie Limitless, which they just promoted at a press junket one of my audacious spies happened to be at. And here's the insight that dribbled my way: Bradley Cooper turns out to be utterly charming, ... More >>

Man Nearly Killed By Steel Beam Is Glass-Half-Full Kind of Guy

​What would you do if you were just driving around Little Italy in your truck, on your second day of work looking for film locations for Robert De Niro's new movie, and suddenly a 20-foot steel beam came down from the sky and pierced the roof of your vehicle, just inches from your head? Would ... More >>

The 10 Best Oscar Speeches of All Time

​The Academy Awards will be telecast on February 27, when we'll get all new acceptance speeches to savor and barf at. In the meantime, having just posted the worst speeches in the trophy's history, here are my favorite ones, whereby winners managed to shine in that high-pressure situation--ac ... More >>

Robert De Niro Shows Off His Sweet Potatoes on SNL

Robert De Niro hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend. In this skit, he plays a famous --if frustrated -- farmer. As it turns out, the actor and restaurateur has some pretty decent knife skills. Have a restaurant tip or other food-related news? Send it to fork@villagevoice.com.

KNOCK OUT

The 30th anniversary of Raging Bull

De Niro and Norton Face Off in Stone

Robert De Niro Gets (Some of) Dad's Paintings Back from Art Scamster; Other Creditors Get Auction

You may remember that last year, art dealer Lawrence Salander was indicted for scamming a lot of rich and famous people out of tens of millions of dollars -- including Robert De Niro, whose father's paintings, it was alleged, Salander sold without permission and without paying the actor his cut. T ... More >>

Who's The Best Male Movie Actor of the Sound Era?

​My choices in ranked order: (1) James Stewart (2) Robert DeNiro (3) Spencer Tracy (4) Jack Nicholson (5) Jack Lemmon

What's Your Favorite De Niro Film?

​Before we start this poll, let me tell you about Robert De Niro's latest film, Everybody's Fine. It has some implausibilities--like, would a retired man with a heart condition really set about traveling all over the place to visit his various children without any advance warning? What if the ... More >>

The King of Comedy

Father Doesn't Know Best when Father's De Niro in Everybody's Fine

Bloody Mama

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Ha, ha, ha. The sweet release of death is a week closer. In the afterlife we can forget all about Kanye and all these ridiculous (but highly amusing) tributes. New York had a big Primary Day -- or, judging by turnout, a dinky one. Our hero Tony Avella went down to defeat. The heavily fund ... More >>

Art Dealer Fraud Case Shows De Niro Slow to Anger; Has He Bought Back the Paintings?

As Runnin' Scared reported yesterday, the Manhattan D.A.'s office has brought a second indictment against alleged art pilferer Lawrence Salander for scamming, among others, actor Robert De Niro. Some of De Niro's dad's abstract expressionist paintings were on consignment with Salander and were i ... More >>

Robert De Niro Also Scammed by Art Dealer, D.A. Says; New Charges Brought

Art dealer Lawrence Salander was indicted in March for a $88 million art scam in which he allegedly failed to recompense several high-end customers, including tennis star John McEnroe. Now the Manhattan D.A.'s office has re-indicted Salander for selling off paintings by the late artist Robert De Nir ... More >>

Open & Closed--Say Hello to Locanda Verde; Goodbye to Union Prime (Er, Steak Frites... Er, No, Union Prime)

Robert De Niro isn't too broken up over the closing of Ago, especially now that a new Andrew Carmellini-cheffed restaurant has opened up in its place. Locanda Verde will feature affordable rustic Italian dishes like gigantoni with shrimp meatballs, gabagool with broccoli rabe bread, and fire-roasted ... More >>

Eaters Follow Food Trucks on Twitter; De Niro Talks about the Food Biz

Popular food trucks are using Twitter to alert their patrons where they'll be and when. Korean-style taco vendors, the Kogi BBQ trucks, started using 140-character messages to communicate with customers, as well as build their customer base, and other street vendors are doing the same. [AP via Googl ... More >>

Open & Closed--Say Hello to Table 8; Goodbye to Atria

The long-awaited New York debut of Govind Armstrong has arrived in the form of Table 8 at The Cooper Square Hotel. The California chef will focus on local, seasonal products, and feature in-house cured meats, rare salts and custom-blended teas. Entwine has opened with its small bar that seats se ... More >>

What is the Tribeca Film Fest?

Staffers flee. New blood moves in. And still the question remains.

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Righteous Kill

John Turturro Takes on the Mob (in a Documentary)

Like Herding Sheep

De Niro takes a loooong, sloooow look at the history of the CIA

Unearth: Metal for Babies

On Russia, With Love

Gary Shteyngart sings the blues; Tribeca Film Fest goes Bang Bang

Scarlet Fever

Tribeca's behind-the-scenes architect explains why bigger is better

'The Bridge of San Luis Rey'

The Parent Trap 2: Cultures Clash as Focker Wedding Nears

Hello, Dolly!: Bad Seed Fails to Take Root in Cloning Thriller

Where All the Lights Are Bright

Gangster Lore, Geriatric Shagging, Global Strife, and Garage Bands

Film

Loft in Former Warehouse

Raise the Spoof

Improbable Cause

Show Me Love

Music

Three Sheets in the Wind

Moose in a Noose

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

A Misfit Pair; Hit by a '2 by 4'; 007 Down

Up and Down

Ganging Up

Famous Last Words

Movie Buffs Pick Their Favorite Endings

[Spoilers are in bold]

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