Jake LaMotta

Oscar nominations: No new faces in the supporting actor category

2013-01-10 08:00:00

For all five of this year’s supporting actor Oscar entries, nomination day must have felt like d�j� vu all over again. All the nominees – Christoph Waltz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Alan Arkin and Tommy Lee Jones – have...

Oscars by the Numbers

2012-02-02 16:41:14

Best Pesci-DeVito Movies

2012-10-19 16:23:10

Can a sequel undermine a classic film?: MGM wants to stop 'Raging Bull' sequel unsanctioned by studio

2012-07-20 21:55:08

If there's a certain futility to remaking classics in studio vaults, MGM's recent suit to stop a follow-up to "Raging Bull" is a reminder of the sacred ground one risks encroaching upon in making a sequel. Earlier this month, MGM filed suit against Jake...

Bullhead

2012-03-29 00:32:00

I love the fact that you can catch some interesting indie and foreign films at the Gaslamp Reading and not just at the Landmark Theatres. The last time I saw a foreign film that disturbed me was at the Gaslamp. It was Dogtooth. The movie I saw there the...

Blagojevich croons to suspicious minds

2009-09-09 00:00:00

Rod Blagojevich is cracking jokes as he prepares to go on national television to plug his new book and once again defend himself against the widespread corruption charges that led to his political ruin. Everything about this nine-month stretch leading up...

The sweet science of stereotyping

2010-12-02 07:31:36

A few words about black supremacy. Such words seem necessary in light of a minor controversy now roiling the sports world after boxer Bernard Hopkins, who is black, declared that boxer Manny Pacquiao, who is Filipino, is scared to face an African-...

"Amore: The Story of Italian American Song" by Mark Rotella

2010-09-20 14:44:23

"AMORE: The Story of Italian American Song" By Mark RotellaFarrar, Straus & Giroux, 320 pages, $26.00 1947 was a splendid year for Italian Americans. For decades, Italian immigrants, especially those from the poorer southern regions, were feared,...

Puerto Ricans rallied behind Cotto at Yankee Stadium fight

2010-06-07 16:32:29

Fight Night Returns to Yankee Stadium

2010-06-06 10:03:00

Daniel Flores handed a digital camera to a friend and grabbed a place next to Babe Ruth's monument in the famous park beyond the center-field wall at Yankee Stadium. This was a no-brainer for the 29-year-old Army officer and Miguel Cotto backer. "I'm...

FC's TOP 5: Best Picture Nominees that SHOULD HAVE won (but didn't)

2009-02-09 00:00:00

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...

Essential Scorsese

2006-10-04 00:00:00

With the October 6 release of Boston-based cops and mobsters tale The Departed, legendary director Martin Scorsese again sets Hollywood ablaze. Critics praise the film not only for its acting and filmmaking, but also for Scorsese's return to the kind of...

Professional boxer Jake LaMotta is 90.

2012-07-09 11:04:00

Vikki LaMotta, wife of boxer Jake LaMotta , ringside at the Chicago Stadium in 1951 at the start of a right in which her husband lost his title.

2011-02-15 12:48:18

It took Sugar Ray Robinson 13 rounds to beat Jake LaMotta to claim the world middle-weight title in front of more than 14,000 fans at Chicago Stadium on Feb. 14, 1951.

2008-08-20 07:41:02