De Niro: A Biography

By John Baxter

Book Overview

The life of Hollywood's number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006532306
• ISBN13: 9780006532309
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 5.1" x 0.0"

Customer Reviews

Lucid study of a great actor's strengths and weaknesses

For many film fans, Robert DeNiro is still a maverick actor associated with such distinctive films as The Godfather Part II, Mean Streets,1900 and Taxi Driver. Yet as this biography points out, DeNiro has been almost as cavalier with his gifts in recent years as Marlon Brando. There is a surprising amount of new information in this book, especially on DeNiro's relationship with his painter father and the burdens of running his TriBeCa film complex in New York, given the actor's opaque public utterances and avoidance of the press. I am not sure anyone can really work out what motivates DeNiro, but Baxter comes close and does it with his usual elegance and wit.