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"I Don't See Any Method At All": The Problem of Actorly Transformation
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Captain Willard (Martin Sheen): "They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound. "
Colonel Kurtz (Marion Brando): "Are my methods unsound?"
Captain Willard: "I don't see any method at all. sir. "
-Apocalypse Now
IN 1980, HAVING PREVIOUSLY GARNERED AN ACADEMY AWARD for Best Supporting Actor as Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974)-a character first played by Marion Brando-Robert De Niro received the Best Actor Oscar for his...
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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Robert De Niro; UNTOUCHABLE: The demons that drive one of the world's top stars into the arms of countless women.(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England)
; IN pictures they could be twins, rather than father and son. The same strong jaw. The same heavy brow. The same deep-set eyes with their Are you looking at me? stare. Robert De Niro Snr and his only child also shared the same tormented psychological make-up. Both artists on the edge, unable to
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Robert De Niro joins the ranks of actor-auteurs with 'A Bronx Tale'. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; TORONTO _ Robert De Niro has played the devil so often it figures he'd sport Mephistos, those high-ticket leather sneakers from France favored by the tragically hip. But excepting his penchant for black (sneaks, socks, shirt), there's nothing satanic about the actor, whose broad, putty face looks
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De Niro sells out.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Robert De Niro has become a prostitute. There's simply no other way to put it. Once a peerless actor _ the star of such essential works as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and a much-deserved Oscar winner for The Godfather Part II
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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THE INCREDIBLY PREPARED, POTENTIALLY TERRIFYING DE NIRO.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; Byline: Donald Newlove Hollywood Reporter The child of two painters in Greenwich Village, Robert De Niro first performed publicly at age 10 as the Cowardly Lion in the Maria Piscator Dramatic Workshop's ``The Wizard of Oz Marlon Brando had attended the same workshop the generation before. In ``The
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`The Score' star Robert De Niro remains something of a mystery.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; NEW YORK _ Has there ever been anyone better at portraying unhappiness than Robert De Niro? When you think of the actor's greatest performances _ the ones that earned him his iconic status, the ones that even people who don't pay much attention to movies can recognize when they hear them quoted _
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