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...scores of films featuring a graphic spilling of blood and guts. In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, some 20 years ago, a knife was never seen touching the victim, played by Janet Leigh. "Now, they want it to cut right through," says Mike Westmore, who did Robert De Niro's makeup in Raging Bull. "Movies run in strings, and we are now in a blood-spurting...
Westmore should know. For Jake La Motta's saga he used gallons of chocolate syrup, an ingredient that simulates blood in black-and-white films. Director Martin Scorsese told him that he wanted both to see and to hear De Niro's nose break, so Westmore constructed a kind of teetertotter proboscis for De Niro that popped when it was hit in the big fight scene. Seven tiny tubes were also attached to the star's face, and when the fake nose went bang, Westmore, who was on the other end of the tubes, began pumping...
Robert De Niro gained 50 Ibs. to play the older Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, then quickly dropped most of it for his next role, in True Confessions...
...Bremer imagined himself as the son of Actress Donna Reed. Sara Jane Moore, who tried to shoot President Ford, thought of herself as a Halo shampoo girl. The movie Taxi Driver wove together many themes found in the lives of American assassins. A taxi driver (played by Robert De Niro), obsessed with shooting a presidential candidate and protecting a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), beset by aggressive urges as well as sexual ones (coded in the film as a pure-hearted defense of a prostitute), finds an acceptable resolution: he spares the candidate and instead shoots the girl's pimp...
Still another actor entered the scene in the investigation of the shooting--18-year-old Jodie Foster. De Niro's co-star in "Taxi Driver" (a role that won her an Oscar, nomination). In the suspect's motel room after the shooting, detectives uncovered an unmailed note to Foster that read, according to one account, "If you don't love me. I'm going to kill the President." It turned out to be only the most recent of a series of pathetic letters to the actress...