Jake Lamotta

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Paddy Considine: “I thought maybe I was one of those guys like Alex Ferguson; that I’d be better in management than I was as a player. I felt very insecure about acting, so I thought I’d be happier behind the camera.” Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images
Paddy Considine: ‘I can’t remember the last big film I’ve seen that was any good’

At first glance, Journeyman looks like another one of those appositely scrappy, noble British boxing films. Actor Paddy Considine’s second outing as a(...)

Jake La Motta during a training session at Gleason’s Gym, New York in 1949. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Former middleweight boxing champ who lived up to his Raging Bull name
  • People
  • September 30, 2017, 00:31

Jake LaMotta, who has died aged 95, is generally acknowledged as one of the toughest men to have entered a professional boxing ring – a world middlewe(...)

Jake La Motta during a training session at Gleason’s Gym, New York on September 4th, 1949. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Boxing’s ‘Raging Bull’ Jake LaMotta dies in his 90s

Jake LaMotta, the brutish former boxing champion whose life of violence in and out of the ring was portrayed in the movie Raging Bull died on Tuesday(...)

Matthew McConaughey: "A bowling alley at 10pm on a school night? Let’s do it. Pizza for breakfast? Great idea. Milkshakes with the pizza? Even better." (Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images)
Matthew McConaughey: ‘I will never be my hero’

Matthew McConaughey stretches out of his chair, stretches his arm out for a handshake and stretches back down in one long, languid movement. I’m wr(...)

Lance Armstrong will appear at the RDS in October. Photograph: Elizabeth Kreutz/Reuters/Lance Armstrong Foundation/
Lance Armstrong just another fallen idol who’s become a tribute act of himself

I know someone heading to Desert Trip next weekend, in Indio, California, a new three-day music festival which features a grand total of six artists: (...)

Mayo’s age profile is a huge help to them. You look around that Mayo team and it’s very hard to pick out a selfish player. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Darragh Ó Sé: Mayo know emotion won’t bring home Sam

Like all washed-up former players, I look forward to All-Ireland finals far more now than I did when I was playing. During my career, if I wasn’t invo(...)

Grudge Match
Grudge Match

Remember the awful scene in Raging Bull in which Jake LaMotta, laid low by humiliation and despair, hammers his fists to pulp against the wall of a pr(...)

“I recall Robert De Niro’s portrayal of Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and can’t but help think of Martin Moore (and Stephen Archer et al) as they learn their trade.” Photograph: Donall Farmer
Raging calf Moore still has learning to do

According to playwright Diane Grant, it’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction. I’m not sure Grant had power plays in p(...)

Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie preview

Ancient cannibalistic religions have less eccentric calendars than does the movie universe. The long run-in and dreary aftermath to Christmas d(...)