A Bensonhurst actor got a big break with legendary director Martin Scorsese’s latest film “The Irishman.” Dominick LaRuffa Jr., who has loved to act since he was a child, landed his biggest role yet in the Netflix exclusive movie “The Irishman,” a film that reunites award-winning actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Getting the role was a difficult...
READ MORELegendary director Martin Scorsese will be filming a new movie shortly and is looking for extras of Italian-American extraction to be a part of it. The film, called “The Irishman,” a Netflix exclusive which is slated to come out in 2018, reunites the director with Robert De Niro for the ninth time, and features an all-star lineup of actors that als...
READ MORESo finally, the mythical Joe Pesci has agreed to join the cast of one of the most hotly anticipated films of recent times; Martin Scorsese’s mob epic The Irishman. He will join none other than the two major figureheads of the acting world, let alone the gangster genre, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. The film will be the first time Pacino and Scorses...
READ MOREThe Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in Hollywood history. At an epic night at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday, director Francis Ford Coppola and members of his cast – including Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and James Caan, with Robert De Niro, who appeared in the 1974 sequel – g...
READ MOREThe new Broadway musical A Bronx Tale celebrated its 100th performance on March 1. Under the direction of four-time Tony winner Jerry Zaks and Oscar winner Robert De Niro, the show, written by Chazz Palminteri, is based on his acclaimed solo show and subsequent 1993 film of the same name. A Bronx Tale is set against the backdrop of racial strife an...
READ MORETonight in New York, the Italian menswear company Ermenegildo Zegna will host a dinner to celebrate a new campaign that packs a seriously powerful casting coup: It features Robert De Niro. To secure the services of such a storied star is quite something—especially one who, his long-standing friendship with Giorgio Armani apart, is rarely spotted in...
READ MORELa passione per la buona cucina italiana e i suoi prodotti a volte si trasforma in business. Lo sanno bene i protagonisti del luccicante mondo di Hollywood che si scoprono o si improvvisano imprenditori nel campo della ristorazione o dell'alimentazione.Tra gli esempi più noti la leggenda del rock Sting che nel 2009 ha acquistato un agriturismo in T...
READ MOREMassimo Bottura, whose Italian restaurant was dubbed the best in the world earlier this year, is teaming up with actor Robert De Niro to open a new eatery in an unexpected locale: The Bronx. At least, that's what a report by Eater would have you believe—and a post on the chef's Instagram feed (above) seems to confirm it: "Planning the new...
READ MORERobert De Niro may best be known as an Oscar-winning actor, but in a new documentary he takes on the role of a devoted son as he spotlights his own artist father, Robert Sr, for his influential but not well-known works in the New York City abstract expressionist art movement. De Niro, 70, who won Oscars for his lead role in "Raging Bull" and his s...
READ MORERobert De Niro ha compiuto lo scorso 17 agosto 70 anni e da Frattura, comune di origine dei suoi genitori, gli giungono gli auguri ed un invito per il cinquantennale della Regione di origine dei suoi genitori. "Italiano, ma per tutti noi, in fondo, soprattutto molisanotra i nomi più importanti, più emozionanti che la nostra regione possa v...
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