Jake LaMotta News

Award-winning actor Robert De Niro appeared in a rare interview with CBS THIS MORNING's Lee Cowan to discuss his current film 'Silver Lining Playbook. 'I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will,' he shares. 'I'm lucky I have the drive to do the work. But you're always lucky.' Check out the interview in full below!

Award-winning actor Robert De Niro appeared in a rare interview with CBS THIS MORNING's Lee Cowan to discuss his current film 'Silver Lining Playbook. 'I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will,' he shares. 'I'm lucky I have the drive to do the work. But you're always lucky.' Check out the interview in full below!

Jake LaMotta's revealing theatrical tell-all, "Lady and the Champ," in which the legendary pugilist and New York fixture shares the stage with Denise Baker in an evening of stories, videos, and song and dance, performs a special two-week engagement from tonight, July 19 to July 29 at the Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 East 26th Street. Written by Bonnie Lee Sanders and Denise Baker, with stage direction by Baker and music direction by Joel Diamond, "Lady and the Champ" features Carl Shimkin and Patrick Jude.

Jake LaMotta's revealing theatrical tell-all, "Lady and the Champ," in which the legendary pugilist and New York fixture shares the stage with Denise Baker in an evening of stories, videos, and song and dance, performs a special two-week engagement from July 19 to 29 at the Richmond Shepard Theatre, 309 East 26th Street. Written by Bonnie Lee Sanders and Denise Baker, with stage direction by Baker and music direction by Joel Diamond, "Lady and the Champ" features Carl Shimkin and Patrick Jude.

In an attempt to halt production on the upcoming film RAGING BULL II, MGM, the studio which produced the 1980 Martin Scorsese Academy Award-winning 'Raging Bull', has filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta and the production company behind the sequel.

30th Astaire Awards producer Patricia Watt and The Douglas Watt Family Fund for the Performing hosted their annual holiday bash to celebrate the success of the foundation's Dance and movement therapy programs for autistic children.

30th Astaire Awards producer Patricia Watt and The Douglas Watt Family Fund for the Performing hosted their annual holiday bash to celebrate the success of the foundation's Dance and movement therapy programs for autistic children.

According to Deadline.com, both Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro are in talks to join the cast of The Weinstein Company's 'Silver Lining's Playbook.' The film is based on a novel by Matthew Quick, and will be directed by David O Russell.

Robert De Niro will preside over the jury of the Cannes Film Festival this year as president of the 64th annual event. The film festival will take place May 11-22.

According to MTV Movie Blog, Al Pacino will join Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci in 'The Irishman', an upcoming film about Frank Sheeran. The film, which revolves around Sheeran's murder of Jimmy Hoffa, is being adapted from Charles Brandt's 'I Heard You Paint Houses' by Steve Zailian. Martin Scorsese is set to direct the film. Production will begin next year.

The first Golden Globe winner of 2011 has been announced, and it's none other than film legend Robert De Niro, according to E!Online. The 67 year old actor won a Best Actor Golden Globe for Raging Bull and has been nominated seven times in the same category since then. But this time, De Niro will be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for 'outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.'

Klea Blackhurst celebrated Ethel Merman's 100th birthday at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club on Monday October 15. Following the concert was Jim Caruso's Cast Party.