Vanity Fair is a reliable source for deep, dishy articles on celebrities and film classics, and this month they have a fascinating one on the making of Raging Bull. Some of it will be familiar to anyone who's read Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, but it's an illuminating read nonetheless.
I haven't watched Raging Bull since film class in college over ten years ago, but I vividly remember how enthralling it was to look at. It was mt first experience with a boxing film, and I never anticipated how beautifully shot or moving it would be.
While reading the above article, I was tickled to learn that Scorsese and De Niro had worked on the script in a hotel I once stayed at. And when you combine that coincidence with my mom's conviction that one of her cousins was once married to one of De Niro's, then obviously, he and I will have a lot to talk about if we ever meet, and he'll no doubt want us to hang out all the time.
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