{"id":14132,"date":"2021-04-04T21:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14132"},"modified":"2021-04-04T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T16:10:26","slug":"new-york-new-york-1977-martin-scorsese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14132","title":{"rendered":"New York, New York (1977, Martin Scorsese)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert De Niro trying to pick up girls at a VJ Day party runs up on Liza Minnelli, whose first 20 lines in the movie are &#8220;no.&#8221;  De Niro plays a guy with social problems, if you can believe that.  It&#8217;s a talky hangout drama with some good character moments, gradually accumulating plot as their music careers develop.<\/p>\n<p><em>The audition:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/nyny2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Then after an entire two-hour not-great movie, Liza&#8217;s husband is having a crisis because she&#8217;s more famous than him, and she stars in a play where her man runs off because he can&#8217;t bear being with a woman more famous than him&#8230; the movie finally, gloriously becoming the full-blown musical it had been hinting at, Liza&#8217;s glamour more interesting than De Niro&#8217;s aimless dissatisfaction.  According to the wikis, the movie-within-the-movie was cut from the theatrical release version &#8211; no wonder it wasn&#8217;t commercially successful.  And here I was stupidly wondering if it&#8217;s based on the real couple who wrote the titular classic song in the 1940&#8217;s\/50&#8217;s, but the song was written for this movie.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dick Miller, being the man:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/nyny1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/nyny3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert De Niro trying to pick up girls at a VJ Day party runs up on Liza Minnelli, whose first 20 lines in the movie are &#8220;no.&#8221; De Niro plays a guy with social problems, if you can believe that. It&#8217;s a talky hangout drama with some good character moments, gradually accumulating plot as their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,1978,636,80,705],"class_list":["post-14132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-liza-minnelli","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-musical","tag-robert-deniro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14169,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions\/14169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}