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Indian Express
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Robert De Niro, the Wise Guy at Cannes
By the time Robert De Niro arrived at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976, with Martin Scorsese's dark, unsettling Taxi Driver — which won the top prize that year — and Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, a five-hour-long epic historical about Italy in the first half of the 20th century, he had behind him the weight of two roles of the kind that would, for a lesser actor, have been a career peak. To both Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part II (1974), he brought a magnetic, chameleon-like quality that marked him as one of the most exciting talents of the age. Over the next half-century, he became recognised as one of the undeniable greats. At Cannes this year, 49 years after he first came to the Croisette, De Niro was honoured with an honorary Palme d'Or for Lifetime Achievement. Consider the filmography that followed Taxi Driver, in which he gave one of the most riveting performances of his career as the lonely, deeply paranoid Travis Bickle (the 'you talkin' to me?' scene might be the most popular audition choice for aspiring actors everywhere). From Jake LaMotte, the toxic, self-destructive boxer of Raging Bull (1980) to Rupert Pupkin, the delusional wannabe comedian of The King of Comedy (1982), from the cold, violent mobster, Jimmy the Gent, in Goodfellas (1990) to the sly, charming and utterly poisonous William King Hale in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), De Niro has delivered performances that balance a deeply interiorised understanding of character with a captivating screen presence. Even when it seemed like he was simply playing a variation of the 'wise guy' or gangster, he has managed to make each character unique. Many of these are also the result of association with like-minded artists, including Scorsese, with whom he has made 10 films, filmmaker Brian De Palma and actor Joe Pesci. The honouring of De Niro is thus also a celebration of cinema as the most collaborative of art forms.
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Firefighter injured as Chicago fire truck crashes into church; union blames old equipment
CHICAGO – At least one firefighter was injured after a Chicago fire truck crashed into a church on the city's South Side Friday, and the Chicago Firefighter's Union said decades-old equipment is to blame. Surveillance video showed the moment the crash happened on the corner of South Morgan and West 103 Street. Crews spent Friday afternoon boarding up parts of Powerhouse Church that were damaged. Child killed, 3 injured in North Side apartment fire 'The driver was trying not to hit a car. His brakes went out and he accidentally hit the building,' said William Hudson III, archbishop of Powerhouse Chicago. 'The food pantry workers were all inside preparing the food for distribution, but they are all safe so thank God for that.' According to the Chicago Firefighter's Union, five firefighters were inside the fire truck when the crash happened. Union President Pat Cleary said many of the city's fire trucks are very old and pose a danger to firefighters. 'The rig is 20 years old. NFPA 1900 states that after 15 years of service, you should take it out of assigned status. You can put it in spare status for 25 years, so it is a 20-year spare,' Cleary said. 'We currently have a 30-year spare, which should be completely out of service.' Read more: Latest Chicago news and headlines This isn't the first time something like this has happened. A few months ago, officials said a fire truck lost its tire, damaging nearby cars. Cleary said upgrading the city's fleet can keep everyone safe. 'They can go downstate to request money or they can go to the federal government to get money. I mean, someone's not doing their job,' Clearly said. WGN News has reached out to the Chicago Fire Department for more information about the crash and the fire truck involved and was told the fire department is currently investigating the incident. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
