On Friday, The Irishman premiered at the New York Film Festival, with all of the major stars in attendance: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci (he came out of retirement for this), Al Pacino and Harvey Keitel. The gang’s all here. And the first reviews are in: The Irishman is one of Martin Scorsese’s masterpieces. It’s more than three hours long but the raves are universal: people like an old-school gangster/mob movie. Between The Irishman and Hustlers, gangsters are having a moment!
What’s funny about The Irishman’s promo is that it’s really only gearing up now, in the midst of the Trump-impeachment inquiry. At the premiere in New York on Friday, De Niro spoke about his hope that Trump is impeached. De Niro has been a vocal critic of Trump for years now, basically since the election.
Robert De Niro hopes Trump gets impeached: "He's such a low life… He taints everybody around him" | #TheIrishman at #NYFF pic.twitter.com/mjo8Cq1Hw2
— Variety (@Variety) September 27, 2019
But then this happened when De Niro appeared on CNN, presumably to hype The Irishman, but he just ended up talking about Trump. Around the 1:50-minute mark, De Niro drops some f-bombs. The whole interview is good though.
I totally respect De Niro for this. *shrug*
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I had some good lolz reading the YouTube comments on the trailer. The diaper babies are all outraged with DeNiro and threatening a boycott. One person was all, “boycott what? It’s Netflix!” As if Bobby gives an f about these losers watching his film.
FCC indecency rules don’t apply to cable. So theoretically you can drop all the f-bombs you want on any cable channel and the feds can’t do anything to you. Advertisers don’t tend to like it, tho, so.
It’ll be interesting to see how little pearl-clutching is done over him expressing the same….’vulgarity’ certain other Trump critics have expressed. Based on the body that he’s in, the same tone-policing and respectability politics won’t be so rigidly and f finding frigidly applied by the same people.
Wait. I have something for this.
*Stops. Take out earbuds. Look. Shrugs. Put in earbuds. Walk away*
I’ll be more impressed with De Niro’s opinion when he ends his partnership with Emin Agaralov–he owns Nobu Moscow with him. Emin is the Putin toady who set up Don Jr’s Trump Tower meeting about “adoptions.”
For me, the whole matter was wrapped eloquently enough in the first minute or so by De Niro–“This guy has done everything possible, much worse than I ever thought ever. The day after he was elected, I said let’s give him a chance, you never know–but he has turned out to be so much worse than I ever could have imagined.”
Yep. And no f-bombs needed to make this salient point.
So we are all OK with DeNiro’s thing for underage prostitutes now since he hates Trump?
Never heard about that until you brought it up! My 2 sec Google investigation shows its mostly false https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-robert-deniro-child-trafficking-ring/
DeNiro has as much right to speak his mind as anyone else.
Cussing does not bother me in the least.
Be wonderful if all the multi-millionaires in this country would put their money where their mouths are too.
DeNiro has to be worth about $60 at minimum.
Donate $1Million to the worthwhile charity of your choice, make it public, if your ego requires that. If every very wealthy citizen would open their own checkbook, donate, take useful action. Talk is cheap. IMO, DeNiro and Bette Midler should both make a huge public donation to elect their candidate of choice. And btw, DeNiro is not saying anything most of us have not been saying since the morning after the election. No one can understand how that idiot is still POTUS.