di Mark Worden
Speakers: Chuck Rolando (Standard American accent)
Last year screen legend Robert De Niro turned 70. Back in 1980 he received an Academy Award for his portrayal of the boxer Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s film, Raging Bull. Three decades later LaMotta’s eventful life is the subject of another movie, The Bronx Bull, which tells us what happened before – and after –the period described in Raging Bull. Australian Mojean Aria plays the young LaMotta and William Forsythe the older version, while Martin Guigui directs. De Niro is not involved in the project, although two other great Italian American actors – Joe Mantegna and Paul Sorvino – are.