De Niro: A Life (93 page)

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Authors: Shawn Levy

Chapter 24

  
1
  “Robert De Niro is a hack”:
“Ten Things You Can’t Say About the Movies,” Tom Carson,
Esquire
, April 1999.

  
2
  “It’s a very good project”:
HRC.

  
3
  “He was attentive”:
“ ‘Call-Girl Leader’ Set Up De Niro with Porn Queen: Tab,” Bill Hoffman,
New York Post
, February 17, 1998.

  
4
  “told me that Bourgeois”:
Ibid.

  
5
  “I had sex”:
Ibid.

  
6
  “I never had any attaché case”:
Ibid.

  
7
  “I have 20 years”:
“Will Judge’s ‘Dog’ Days Get a Collar?,” George Rush and Joanna Molloy, New York
Daily News
, February 13, 1998.

  
8
  “I was shocked”:
“French Cops Quiz De Niro in Hooker Probe,” Tracy Connor and Bill Hoffman,
New York Post
, February 11, 1998.

  
9
  “He’s a charming man”:
“Lawyer Insists De Niro Never Paid for Sex,”
Times
(London), February 12, 1998.

10
  “The name of Robert De Niro”:
“De Niro Fuming over French Diss,” Tracy Connor,
New York Post
, February 12, 1998.

11
  “De Niro’s participation”:
“Police Probe Pushes De Niro off Pope’s List,” David Rooney,
Variety
, February 23, 1998.

12
  “Bob was afraid”:
“Psychotherapy He Can’t Refuse,” Bernard Weinraub,
New York Times
, February 26, 1990.

13
  “It’s not as if he has a shtick”:
Author interview.

Chapter 25

  
1
  “The mayor told us”:
“De Niro Group Replaced as Developers in Brooklyn,” Terry Pristin,
New York Times
, October 14, 1999.

  
2
  “stick it up”:
“De Niro and Weinstein Sticking It to Giuliani by Heading to Yonkers,” Greg Sargent and Josh Benson,
New York Observer
, April 17, 2000.

  
3
  “hands behind back”:
HRC.

  
4
  “It was a big disappointment”:
“Jane of All Trades.”

Chapter 26

  
1
  “I feel indebted”:
Peter Schjeldahl, “Fruit and Turpentine,”
Village Voice
, January 31, 1995.

  
2
  “Not only as a painter”:
“Paint Brushes Full, Robert De Niro Sr. Really Thought Big,” Hilton Kramer,
New York Observer
, March 7, 2005.

  
3
  “He’s pathetic”:
“Imposter Double-dares De Niro,” Philip Recchia,
New York Post
, February 2, 2003.

  
4
  “Fuck you”:
“How to Make a Score,” Jess Cagle,
Time
, July 16, 2001.

  
5
  “The assumption that conflict is bad”:
Ibid.

  
6
  “I probably could have”:
“Tea and Reflection,” Rick Lyman,
New York Times
, July 20, 2000.

Chapter 27

  
1
  “I left a meeting”:
“What I’ve Learned: Robert De Niro.”

  
2
  “Bob felt personally”:
“Jane of All Trades.”

  
3
  “I keep reminding”:
Ibid.

  
4
  “This neighborhood”:
“TriBeCa Film Fest, Take 2, Planned for May,”
New York Times
, February 21, 2003.

  
5
  “part of the tradition”:
“Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Mission,” Ed Pilkington,
Guardian
(London), April 14, 2013.

  
6
  “I decided to be even more”:
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company v.
Robert De Niro
, Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Five, 2009 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4712, June 15, 2009.

  
7
  “I don’t know if I hoped”:
“The Patient Is a Don Named Paul,” Dave Kehr,
New York Times
, December 6, 2002.

Chapter 28

  
1
  “He has done nothing”:
“Uproar over Citizen De Niro,” Paula Froelich and Christ Wilson,
New York Post
, August 14, 2004.

  
2
  “I said one night”:
“Intelligence Design,” John Horn,
Los Angeles Times
, November 5, 2006.

  
3
  “I’d love to make this movie”:
“Spy Pic Coin Spooks King,” Dana Harris,
Variety
, November 12, 2004.

  
4
  “Matt was crucial”:
“Yeah, I’m Talkin’ to You,” Belinda Luscombe,
Time
, December 11, 2006.

  
5
  “I didn’t have that much confidence”:
“And Now, 972 Words from Robert De Niro,” Chris Heath, GQ, January 2007.

  
6
  “In movies where people”:
“Intelligence Design.”

  
7
  “If she [Hightower]
”: “Housekeeper to the Stars Admits Stealing from Her Least Favorites,” Anemona Hartocollis,
New York Times
, February 9, 2006.

  
8
  “If you have me arrested”:
“ ‘Maid’ Out Like a Bandit vs. De Niro,” Laura Italian, Philip Messing and Lukas I. Alpert,
New York Post
, June 22, 2005.

Chapter 29

  
1
  “We worked on this”:
“De Niro Asks Commission to Spare Hotel’s Penthouse,” Michael Wilson,
New York Times
, June 18, 2008.

  
2
  “It was dirty”:
“The Name Rings a Bell,” Christine Haughney,
New York Times
, January 30, 2011.

  
3
  “a little bit of a wild kid”:
Ibid.

  
4
  “I was into that idea”:
Edward Norton interviewed in Kenny,
Robert De Niro
.

  
5
  “I think Bob was just switched on”:
Ibid.

  
6
  “A lot of times actors”:
Ibid.

Chapter 30

  
1
  “Robert and I have been speaking”:
“Making of
Silver Linings Playbook
,” Tatiana Siegel,
Hollywood Reporter
, December 14, 2012.

  
2
  “When I’m being polite”:
“Proust Questionnaire: Robert De Niro,”
Vanity Fair
, March 2013.

  
3
  “I always wanted to chronicle”:
“What I’ve Learned: Robert De Niro.”

  
4
  “I guess you could call it”:
“Robert De Niro’s Wife Grace Hightower Keeps Surrogate Daughter Undercover as She Steps Out with Bundle of Joy for First Time,” Sarah Fitzmaurice,
Daily Mail
(London), March 2, 2012.

  
5
  “I have young kids”:
“The Best Is Yet to Come,” David Hochman, AARP, October–November, 2013.

  
6
  “I feel optimistic”:
Ibid.

De Niro Biographies

Note: Of the following, those by Baxter and Dougan are the fullest works of biographical research and analysis.

Baxter, John.
De Niro: A Biography.
London: HarperCollins, 2002.

Brode, Douglas.
The Films of Robert De Niro
, 4th ed. New York: Citadel, 2001.

Cameron-Wilson, James.
The Cinema of Robert De Niro.
London: Zomba Books, 1986.

Dougan, Andy.
Untouchable: A Biography of Robert De Niro.
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1996.

McKay, Keith.
Robert De Niro: The Hero Behind the Masks.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.

Nisini, Giorgio.
Robert De Niro.
Rome: Gremese Editore, 2004.

Parker, John.
Robert De Niro: Portrait of a Legend.
London: John Blake, 2009.

Rauch, Andrew J.
The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010.

Robert De Niro Sr. and Virginia Admiral:
Their Lives, Art, and Times

Bair, Deirdre.
Anaïs Nin: A Biography.
New York: Putnam, 1995.

D. C. Moore Gallery.
Robert De Niro Sr.: Paintings and Drawings
,
1960–1993.
New York: D. C. Moore Gallery, 2012.

De Niro, Robert, Sr. A
Fashionable Watering Place: Poems.
New York: 1976.

Fitch, Noel Riley.
Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin.
New York: Little, Brown, 1993.

Hackett-Freedman Gallery.
Robert De Niro Sr.: Selected Works.
San Francisco: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 1998.

Harris, Mary Emma.
The Arts at Black Mountain College.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987.

Jarnot, Lisa.
Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus
,
a Biography.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Kelly, Andrew, and Ivana Salander, eds.
Robert De Niro Sr.
New York: Salander-O’Reilly, 2004.

Nin, Anaïs.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin
, vol. 2,
1934–1939.
New York: Swallow Press, 1967.

_____.
The Diary of Anaïs Nin
, vol. 3,
1939–1944.
New York: Mariner, 1971.

O’Hara, Frank.
Standing Still and Walking in New York.
San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1983.

Perl, Jed.
New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century.
New York: Knopf, 2005.

Rivers, Larry, with Arnold Weinstein.
What Did I Do? The Unauthorized Autobiography.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Sandler, Irving.
The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties.
New York: Harper and Row, 1978.

Film Histories and Biographies Bearing on De Niro, His Films, His Career, and His Milieu

Abramowitz, Rachel.
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? Women’s Experience of Power in Hollywood.
New York: Random House, 2000.

Adams, Cindy.
Lee Strasberg.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980.

Bach, Steven.
Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of “Heaven

s Gate.
” New York: William Morrow, 1985.

Baer, William, ed.
Elia Kazan Interviews.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

Biskind, Peter.
Easy Riders
,
Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock-’n’-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

_____.
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax
,
Sundance
,
and the Rise of Independent Film.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Brenner, Marie.
Going Hollywood: An Insider’s Look at Power and Pretense in the Movie Business.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1978.

Brunette, Peter.
Martin Scorsese Interviews.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.

Cameron, Julia.
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir.
New York: Penguin, 2006.

Cosgrove, Bill.
Robert De Niro and the Fireman.
Bethel, CT: Rutledge, 1997.

Cowie, Peter.
Coppola: A Biography.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990.

Doron, Meir, and Joseph Gelmis.
Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan.
New York: Gefen, 2011.

Flynn, Nick.
The Reenactments: A Memoir.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.

Garfield, David.
A
Player’s Place: The Story of the Actors Studio.
New York: Macmillan, 1980.

Goodwin, Michael, and Naomi Wise.
On the Edge: The Life and Times of Francis Coppola.
New York: William Morrow, 1989.

Grobel, Lawrence.
Al Pacino in Conversation with Lawrence Grobel.
New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2006.

Harris, Mark.
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood.
New York: Penguin, 2008.

Hirsch, Foster.
A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio.
New York: Da Capo, 2002.

Hoberman, J.
Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.

Kazan, Elia.
Kazan on Directing.
New York: Knopf, 2009.

Kellow, Brian.
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark.
New York: Viking, 2011.

Kelly, Mary Pat.
Martin Scorsese: A Journey.
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991.

LaMotta, Jake, with Joseph Carter and Pete Savage.
Raging Bull: My Story.
New York: Da Capo, 1997.

Lawrence, Mary Wells.
A
Big Life in Advertising.
New York: Knopf, 2002.

Lebo, Harlan.
The Godfather Legacy.
New York: Fireside, 1997.

Levy, Shawn.
King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Lewis, John.
Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

Linson, Art.
A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood.
New York: Grove Press, 1993.

LoBrutto, Vincent.
Martin Scorsese: A Biography.
Westport: Praeger, 2008.

Lourdeaux, Lee.
Italian and Irish Filmmakers in America: Ford
,
Capra
,
Coppola and Scorsese.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Mardirosian, Tom.
Saved from Obscurity.
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1989.

Navasky, Victor S.
Naming Names.
New York: Viking, 1980.

Phillips, Gene.
Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

Phillips, Gene D., and Rodney Hill.
Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004.

Phillips, Julia.
You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again.
New York: Signet, 1992.

Pileggi, Nicholas.
Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Schickel, Richard.
Elia Kazan: A Biography.
New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

_____.
Conversations with Scorsese
. New York: Knopf, 2011.

Schumacher, Michael.
Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker’s Life.
New York: Crown, 1999.

Shales, Tom, and James Andrew Miller.
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of “Saturday Night Live” as Told by Its Stars
,
Writers and Guests.
New York: Little, Brown, 2002.

Simon, Neil.
The Play Goes On.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Slater, Robert.
Ovitz.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Stadiem, William.
Moneywood: Hollywood in Its Last Age of Excess.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2012.

Stevens, George, Jr.
Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
New York: Knopf, 2006.

Thompson, David, and Ian Christie, eds.
Scorsese on Scorsese.
Boston: Faber & Faber, 1989.

Tosches, Nick.
The Nick Tosches Reader.
New York: Da Capo, 2007.

Vineberg, Steve.
Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style.
New York: Schirmer, 1991.

Wiley, Mason, and Damien Bona.
Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards.
New York: Ballantine, 1987.

Wilson, Michael Henry.
Scorsese on Scorsese.
Paris: Cahiers du Cinema, 2011.

Winters, Shelley.
Shelley II: The Middle of My Century.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Woiwode, Larry.
What I Think I Did: A Season of Survival in Two Acts.
New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Woodward, Bob.
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Yule, Andrew.
Enigma: David Puttnam
,
the Story So Far
 … London: Mainstream Publishing, 1988.

_____.
Life
on the Wire: The Life and Art of Al Pacino.
New York: Donald I. Fine, 1991.

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