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Article: DE NIRO SPEAKS? NO, BUT COLLEAGUES DO.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 5, 1997
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Byline: Donald Newlove The Hollywood Reporter
UNTOUCHABLE: DE NIRO
By Andy Dougan Thunder's Mouth, $24.95
312 pp., photos
The child of two painters in Greenwich Village, Robert De Niro first performed publicly at 10, as the Cowardly Lion in the Maria Piscator Dramatic Workshop's The Wizard of Oz. Marlon Brando had attended the same workshop the generation before. In The Godfather II, De Niro would follow in Brando's footsteps once more.
The general message of this densely detailed, unauthorized life of De Niro is that the private De Niro remains untouchable and speaks largely through his public creations. As Andy Dougan tells ...