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	ESPN.com - Page2 - Reel Life: 'Raging Bull'
		La Motta's involvement in this less-than-flattering portrait may be puzzling to some, but in his autobiography he doesn't spare himself, either.
		La Motta is depicted as clearly dominating the fight at Brigg's Stadium in Detroit.
		The contract between La Motta and Cerdan called for a rematch, but Cerdan, the "Casablanca Clouter," was killed in a plane crash while returning to the United States.
	espn.go.com /page2/s/closer/020703.html (2510 words)

	EUFS: Raging Bull
		La Motta's relationships with others, most notably his wife Vickie (Kathy Moriarty, in her first film performance) and brother/manager Joey (Joe Pesci, in the role which convinced him to continue in an acting career), are governed by a paranoid jealousy and he faces a constant losing battle to keep his weight down.
		In the 40s Jake La Motta's stage was the boxing ring where he eventually became middleweight champion in 1949 by beating Marcel Cerdan, but his nemesis was "Sugar" Ray Robinson whom he faced six times and lost five.
		La Motta felt an enormous amount of guilt and inadequacy and his boxing style was to overcome simply by absorbing as much punishment as his opponent could dish out.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/raging_bull.html (781 words)

	Observer \| Ageing Bull
		It is Jake La Motta looking in a mirror and telling himself he could have been somebody - and it happened most nights for 20 years in nightclubs, blind pigs and taverns all over the United States.
		Jake told me. He puts his fork down on top of his tuna at La Maganette on 3rd Avenue in New York - he has been a regular at the same table and seat for 20 years - and reaches across to grab my hand.
		La Motta was world middleweight champion from 1949 until the night he lost to Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951 in a fight that was dubbed the St Valentine's Day Massacre.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4281793-102283,00.html (971 words)

	DVD review of Raging Bull: Collector's Edition - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As La Motta speaks, it's hard not to think back to the film and De Niro's voice patterns and shake your head at how identical the voices are, and how De Niro absolutely nailed all the subtle traces of personality that each line and hesitation reveals.
		Jake had apparently written his brother out of his autobiography, and that, Schrader says, is when he knew he had found the story he wanted to tell.
		It's almost as compelling as the film itself, and La Motta is outrageous, telling how he never lost a street fight, never lost a reform school fight, never lost as an amateur fighter (he learned boxing in reform school), and went undefeated in his first 18 professional fights.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/ragingbullcollectorsedition/13047/2657 (1884 words)

	scorseseraging
		When Jake first lays eyes on his second wife, the 15 year- old Vickie (Cathy Moriarty) at their Bronx neighborhood public pool, she is keeping company with a mobster, Salvy (Frank Vincent) and his crew.
		La Motta defeats all of his competition in his pursuit of a title bout.
		La Motta waits out his suspension and two years later wins the middleweight title he's been fighting all his life for.
	pages.prodigy.net /swifttone/scorseseraging.html (860 words)

	Brimful of basher: La Motta's wild life - smh.com.au
		La Motta had 106 fights, many of them wars, many of them over 10 brutal rounds, and it is true, he never once went down in the ring.
		Harry Gordon was his name and he walked into La Motta's hotel room like Banquo's ghost the night he won the middleweight title against Marcel Cerdan of France.
		There is an element of the absurd about La Motta, but it is entirely underscored by the darkness of his life.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/07/26/1027497413445.html (1186 words)

	Raging Bull (1980)
		The main difference is that Bickle's world was pretty seedy, whereas La Motta is more of a tragic figure; he literally had it all but he blew it because he couldn't cope with the demons that haunted him.
		Jake doesn't act, he reacts, and he torments himself for the consequences later, such as in the scene where he beats his bare fists against a concrete wall and cries, "Why?!" repeatedly.
		La Motta obviously doesn't want to behave the way he does, but he lacks the simplest concept of how to change, so by the end of the film, he's left a faded shadow of himself.
	www.dvdmg.com /ragingbull.shtml (1391 words)

	Raging Bull (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Goofs: Continuity: Early in the film when Jake is leaning out of a back window, shouting, he is leaning right out of the window when viewed from outside, but is hardly leaning out at all when viewed from inside.
		Jake La Motta: I remember those cheers / They still ring in my ears / After years, they remain in my thoughts.
		At times it is enthralling to watch, but at others, particularly in the first half, it seems to lack structure, as La Motta takes on a series of opponents without the significance of these fights ever becoming clear.
	imdb.com /title/tt0081398 (836 words)

	Boxing: Raging Bull is back!
		The film re-launched La Motta, who had tried to re-work himself as a stand-up comedian and actor, into the global spotlight and he went from being just another ferocious pug who stunned the world by beating Sugar Ray Robinson in February 1943.
		La Motta would rather think of the other 105 fights in his 13-year career, of which he won 83, lost 18 and drew four.
		JAKE La Motta appeared at the first of city centre restaurant Lounge Ten's celebrity nights, and will be special guest at a sportsman's dinner at the Renaissance Hotel on Thursday night.
	www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk /sport/s/203/203533_boxing_raging_bull_is_back.html (740 words)

	IBHOF / Jake LaMotta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		T RING MAGAZINE'S gala 75th Anniversary Dinner, Jake LaMotta was recognized as having the best chin in boxing over the last 75 years.
		Jake took the first fight by decision, victimizing Robinson with his first loss in 41 pro fights -- 121 bouts if you include the Sugarman's amateur career.
		The legends met on February 14, 1951, in Chicago Stadium and this time Jake's middleweight crown was at stake.
	www.ibhof.com /lamotta.htm (550 words)

	silvervision.co.uk - Sugar Ray Robinson / Jake La Motta DVD
		La Motta eventually succeeded against the Frenchman Marcel Cerdan, but fate brought them back together just that one more time in 1951, when the Bronx Bull was beginning to slow down.
		Jake La Motta was from the Bronx, New York.
		La Motta was ostracized after his 'bribe' admission but later made a living with personal appearances, especially after Raging Bull was acknowledged as one of the great boxing movies of all time.
	www.silvervision.co.uk /product.asp?pricing=INC&pf_id=ESPNDVD010&cid=8NVW9IIU80OCORXP072PEHGITJDGQH83 (685 words)

	Cinematography of Raging Bull
		Jake La Motta's life is much like his bouncing up and down in the ring during warm up.
		There is a rise and fall pattern in his life, and since this film is set as Jake's flash back we see events mostly from his point of view and everything is focused on his experiences.
		Jake's treatment of his wives and his brother is very brutal.
	www.unc.edu /~slindsey (2120 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Raging Bull -- Martin Scorsese - DVD - Special Edition / Wide Screen / Subtitled B&W
		Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the true rise and fall and redemption of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, a violent man in and out of the ring who thrives on his ability (and desire) to take a beating.
		Opening with the spectacle of the over-the-hill La Motta (Robert De Niro) practicing his 1960s night-club act, the film flashes back to 1940s New York, when Jake's career is on the rise.
		Jake gets the title bout, and blonde teenage second wife Vickie (Cathy Moriarity), but success does nothing to exorcise his demons, even as he channels his rage into boxing.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=27616915122&cds2Pid=4638&linkid=456272 (779 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Raging Bull at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jake's insecurities and emotional frustrations into losing some weight increases when Tommy Como is putting money on the fight for Jake to win.
		With the real Jake La Motta serving as a consultant, the boxing sequences aren't just choreographed right down to its essential but also the camera movements and presentation including one sequence of a man getting knocked down with the camera falling down with him.
		When de Niro comes in as the boxer, he epitomizes everything that is about La Motta in the ring as a tough SOB who wouldn't go down for anyone, even if he has to lose a fight.
	www.epinions.com /content_213351829124 (2683 words)

	Raging Bull (1980)
		The tale of Jake La Motta's downfall is a reversal of the sentimental, much-loved boxer/hero story in Rocky (1976).
		Boxer Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro), with his face hidden in the monk-like hood of his leopard-skin robe, warms up alone in the ring by shadow-boxing into the smoky air.
		When the impressionistically-filmed fight resumes in the ring, La Motta half crouches in a closed-in position and "continues to bore in." He knocks Reeves down to the mat.
	www.filmsite.org /ragi.html (2862 words)

	Review: Raging Bull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, although La Motta is credited as the movie's "consultant," he was reportedly unhappy with the final result, because it portrays him as nothing short of an uncouth, insensitive lout.
		The La Motta of the movie is a man of extreme appetites who is driven by base, bestial impulses - paranoia, jealousy, and blind rage.
		Vicki becomes Jake's greatest prize (a wife, in his view, is not a companion, but a possession) and the source of his most extreme pain.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/r/raging.html (1338 words)

	Raging Bull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jake La Motta went to see "Raging Bull" in his neighborhood movie theater not long after it came out in 1980.
		La Motta says he went "a thousand" rounds with De Niro in preparation for filming.
		La Motta is interviewed on the second commentary by his nephew; screenwriters Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader share the track, recalling the tortured story development.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000810034 (1003 words)

	Salon People \| Oscar vs. Felix: Boxing's not-so-odd couple slow dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Still, the early rounds appeared to be going De La Hoya's way as he used startling hand and foot speed to sneak in quick combinations and then leave town in a hurry.
		Trinidad was frustrated, chasing De La Hoya around the ring, trying in vain to start a slugging match that the Golden Boy would have no part of.
		They wanted their hero, Oscar De La Hoya, to solidify his legend, the way Sugar Ray Leonard had done back in September 1981 when his desperate flurry of punches stopped Thomas Hearns in the nick of time.
	www.salon.com /people/log/1999/09/20/fight/index1.html (802 words)

	the agony booth forum - Fight Time - JAKE LA MOTTA vs ROCKY BALBOA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		You seem to forget that "Rocky" is a fictional character while La Motta(probably an influence to the creation of Rocky) was a real boxer and later member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
		Sure Rocky may be as tough as steel, but La Motta's depressive/domestic abuse sure makes him a creature full of absolute primitive force that even the Italian Stallion can not prevail.
		La Motta and Rocky will bash each other's brains out, but Motta prevails while the ambulance takes the Meatball to the hospital for some more unrelevent domestic drama.
	www.agonybooth.com /forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=1992 (399 words)

	Film as Art: Danél Griffin's Guide to Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		De Niro’s interpretation of Jake (the actor spent a great deal of time with the real Jake La Motta to prepare for the role) is as a man who is obsessed with boxing and becoming the middleweight champion.
		Jake is insecure and lacks confidence, but instead of recognizing his problem, he assumes that because he hates himself, everyone else hates him too.
		Jake’s obsession with the possibility of his loved ones plotting against him eventually triggers his violence against both his wife and his brother.
	uashome.alaska.edu /~jndfg20/website/ragingbull.htm (1114 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Raging Bull (1980)
		It's got the trappings of a pulpy Hollywood biopic: this is the story of Jake La Motta, middleweight, who became champion of the world, then lost it all in a descent riddled with ignominy and squalor.
		Jake is tortured by demons that he barely understands, but that make being in his head or in his world a particular sort of hell.
		Jake doesn't have the gift of words, so De Niro's performance is amazing in its physical life, in bringing some humanity and dimension to a man who seemed to demonstrate little of either.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=6999 (1530 words)

	Raging Bull: Special Edition (1980)
		The main difference is that Bickle's world really was pretty seedy, whereas La Motta is more of a tragic figure; he literally had it all but he blew it because he couldn't cope with the demons that haunted him.
		La Motta most strongly comes to life when he talks about his fights; he seems more evasive when he gets into parts of his personal life, though he still opens up with some of those tales.
		La Motta Defends Title runs 61 seconds and shows the fight clips from the last piece without the cuts to movie material.
	www.dvdmg.com /ragingbullse.shtml (2941 words)

	Amazon.ca: Raging Bull: My Story: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When Jake was released from reform school, he vowed to himself never to go back to jail and to try and change his way.
		Jake will blame himself, and yes, many of the horrific things he did in his youth were unacceptable and just downright unethical.
		Jake is a champ, and a monster, but I would never say that too his face unless I want to keep mine on my head.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0306808080 (1578 words)

	Amazon.com: Raging Bull: My Story: Books: Jake La Motta,Joseph Carter,Peter Savage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jake was not loved or cared for by his father, who frequently beat him for no reason or explanation.
		Believed to be a murderer as a teen, Jake drove himself insane with pain, fear, guilt, and anger, and the only way he could channel all that negative energy was to box.
		La Motta is brutally honest and doesn't try to hide anything or paint himself in a special light.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306808080?v=glance (2426 words)

	DeNiro
		La Motta gave me the other man’s name, and I checked every combination of both their names I could think of.
		La Motta, I understand, but without anything to go on, I can’t just give you a room.
		I didn’t find out until the next night that the hotel manager knew all about him, but had forgotten to leave word for me. He was in town on a promotional tour, and the billing for his room had been pre-arranged and then completely forgotten.
	www.davidgustafson.net /DeNiro.html (584 words)

	Program Note XHTML template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The fight scenes in Raging Bull are both extraordinarily brutal and extraordinarily poetic as both Scorsese and De Niro capture the spirit of Jake La Motta as a primal force punishing himself though his ordeals in the ring.
		Jake La Motta was the very quintessence of that philosophy, a man for whom violence was not so much an aspect of his behavior but rather his natural state.
		Apart from the fl eyes, La Motta also claims that United Artist had to spend thousands of dollars on remedial dental work and surgery to his chin after his bouts with De Niro.
	www.ammi.org /film_programs/program_notes/r/raging_bull.html (722 words)

	The DVD Clinic Movie Review of Raging Bull (SE)
		A bio-pic on the life of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta that focuses on how his self-destructive behavior prevented him from reaching many of his personal and professional goals.
		After two or three of La Motta’s ‘fits’ in this movie, I just stopped caring and just started wondering when his next unreasonable outburst was going to come.
		De Niro Vs. La Motta (3 minutes): A short little feature that compares actual footage of one of Jake’s fights with a scene from the movie with De Niro in a similar situation.
	www.joblo.com /reviews.php?mode=joblo_dvds&id=738 (874 words)

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		Since MEAN STREETS officially launched his career in 1973, Scorsese has explored with his bravura signature style the lives of outsiders, from Jake La Motta to Jesus Christ, who struggle to find and maintain their place in a world of failing codes and traditions.
		Scorsese was never a boxing fan, but after reading Jake La Motta's autobiography at Robert De Niro's suggestion, he came to understand La Motta as a man at war with himself.
		But the film's heart concerns La Motta's life outside the ring where jealousy and rage poison his relationships with his brother (Joe Pesci) and second wife (Cathy Moriarty).
	www.cinema.ucla.edu /calendar/calendardetails.aspx?details_type=2&id=57 (2355 words)

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