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Good morning. Today is the 321st day of they year. It is the anniversary of the 1734 arrest of John Peter Zenger, colonial printer and journalist who established the New York Weekly Journal.

November 17, 2009 11-17-2009 Renowned film director Martin Scorsese was born in Flushing, Queens on November 17, 1942.

IMAGES Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, and Joe Pesci in [Credits : Dirck Halstead/© 1990 Warner Brothers, Inc.; photograph from a private collection] Main American director born November 17, 1942, Flushing, Long Island, New York, U.S. American filmmaker known for his harsh, often violent depictions of American culture.

"It's easy to think of Scorsese as a kind of poet of the underworld," the American Film Institute reflected when they granted him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

DIRECTORS such as Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann and Christopher Nolan are on hand in DVD extras in this deluxe package to testify to the worth of the film noir genre, if you require such expert testimony.

According to THR , Harvey Keitel has joined the inevitable pain that is Little Fockers .A A Even though Keitel has never achieved the stature of his early peer Robert De Niro, Keitel has kept steady work in low-profile material and thus maintained the respect that De Niro cannot claim with his rocky record of the past 15 years.A However, he will ...

Martin Scorsese Cecil B. DeMille Award: Martin Scorsese is to be presented with a lifetime achievement honor, receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the upcoming 67th annual Golden Globe Awards show in Los Angeles, organizers said.

Ben Stiller is bringing Harvey Keitel and Robert DeNiro back together. Keitel will join the cast of "Little Fockers," third in the "Meet the Parents" series co-starring Stiller and DeNiro, according to The Hollywood Reporter .

Martin Scorsese is a GreatFella. Just ask the folks behind the Golden Globes, who've tapped the legendary Oscar-winning filmmaker as the latest recipient of their highest honor.

Harvey Keitel has joined the cast of the "Meet the Fockers" sequel. Regulars Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson are returning, along with newcomers Jessica Alba and Laura Dern.

Well, except it didn't ignite because Vas called Reno a mook. Oh, and I guess neither Reno nor Vas looked or sounded anything like Johnny Boy - Robert De Niro's trouble-making street hood character from Little Italy in NYC.

In Hollywood, the word "complicated" has two general meanings. The first refers to someone as "difficult" -- a pain-in-the-prat. The other refers to someone whose working process is intricate enough to try everyone's patience, but in the end delivers something good enough to make you glad they didn't hire someone else.

Last week, it was announced that Miramax Films would close its New York offices, and that its president, Daniel Battsek, was being asked to step down.

WHO do you get to follow Philip Glenister as the macho, sexist, hard-drinking 70s cop Gene Hunt? The people behind the new US version of hit show Life On Mars asked themselves the same question and all they could come up with was a "Harvey Keitel type". Then someone had the bright idea of asking the tough guy's tough guy himself - and he shocked ...

There are a great many movies set in New York, and there are even more supposedly set here but actually shot in Canada or somewhere else with no unions.

"I can only talk about what has moved me or intrigued me," says filmmaker Martin Scorsese at the beginning of this four-hour documentary about his passion for U.S. cinema.

Aug. 21, 2009 11:16 a.m. In 1973 legendary movie director Martin Scorsese released his break through film Mean Streets , which featured a theretofore unknown actor named Robert DeNiro.

Many of us love going to the movies. But sometimes you feel like staying in and renting something really good.

Based on the 1978 American film noir "Fingers"-the numbingly fierce and naked directorial debut by 33-year-old James Toback that starred Harvey Keitel as a Mafia boss's son who wants to be a classical pianist-this is a French film that takes the hard-boiled poetics of American noir and squeezes them into an explosive, compacted knot of anguish and ...

Based on the 1978 American film noir "Fingers"-the numbingly fierce and naked directorial debut by 33-year-old James Toback that starred Harvey Keitel as a Mafia boss's son who wants to be a classical pianist-this is a French film that takes the hard-boiled poetics of American noir and squeezes them into an explosive, compacted knot of anguish and ...