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Robert De Niro has claimed that it is important for stars to have a period of being unknown before they become famous.

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.

It's just as well that the couch I'm sitting on is plump and hospitable or I might have fallen off it: Martin Scorsese tells me that the real inspiration for the tone and voice of Goodfellas was not Scarface or Public Enemy , but Kind Hearts and Coronets .

The director of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" - which opens today - is the last in a long line of filmmakers to work with MJ.

Three of Hollywood's leading men are in the frame to star in Martin Scorsese's forthcoming Frank Sinatra biopic George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp are fighting to play Frank Sinatra in a forthcoming biopic.

Renee Zellweger famously gained and lost 25 pounds for her "Bridget Jones" role.

There's an old saying that you should never meet your heroes. It's utter nonsense, of course - you should go out of your way to meet your heroes.

Paramount has debuted a second new trailer for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island today on Apple .

HAMMONTON -- A television series based on a book written by Hammonton resident Nelson Johnson is expected to premiere on HBO next year.

Hey kids, maybe if you murder a couple hundred people for the mob, Mickey Rourke will star in your life story, too.

Mickey Rourke has signed up to star in 'The Ice Man', a film based on the life of hitman Richard 'Iceman' Kuklinski.

"You never got me down, Ray. You hear me? You never got me down." -- boxer Jake LaMotta, as played by Robert De Niro , after taking a beating from Sugar Ray Robinson in Martin Scorsese's film "Raging Bull." The U.S. Department of Justice likes to consider itself the heavyweight champion of the legal world.

'Doughy.' That was the one-word instruction Steven Soderbergh gave Matt Damon on his character's appearance for 'The Informant!' So the handsome star of the Jason Bourne action movies started eating and eating and eating, until he gained 30 pounds, achieving the out-of-shape look he needed for the comedy.

U.S. actor Matt Damon says he consulted Robert De Niro before gaining 30 pounds for his role in the new film "The Informant!" De Niro famously packed on 60 pounds for "Raging Bull." "I talked to Robert De Niro before I did it," Damon said at a recent Toronto International Film Festival news conference.

MATT DAMON called on ROBERT DE NIRO for advice when he learned he'd have to pile on pounds for his role in THE INFORMANT - because the movie great had done such a great job of getting heavy for RAGING BULL.

Matt Damon in 'The Informant!' Matt Damon visits 'The Late Show with David Letterman' at the Ed Sullivan Theater on September 10, 2009 in New York City Warner Bros.

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > De Niro helps Damon with weight gain SHOWBIZ MATT DAMON called on ROBERT DE NIRO for advice when he learned he'd have to pile on pounds for his role in THE INFORMANT - because the movie great had done such a great job of getting heavy for RAGING BULL.

Not since Charles Foster Kane has American cinema produced such a fully realized character as prizefighter Jake LaMotta, played by Robert De Niro, in Martin Scorsese's masterpiece, "Raging Bull" . LaMotta was on top of the world in the 1940s, winning 89 fights, 30 of them by knockout.

Movie actor Robert De Niro, musician Bruce Springsteen and funnyman Mel Brooks are among the entertainers whose careers will be celebrated at this year's Kennedy Center Honors Gala in December.

All five recipients of the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors were born in the U.S.A. -- and one of them turned that fact into an anthem.