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(Robert De Niro) made crystal clear which candidate he supports this presidential election at the VIP cocktail reception for the annual Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Western Regional Gala held Thursday at the Beverly Hilton. The event was chaired by producing giant and FIDF national board member Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl. “If you’re supporting Trump, I want nothing to do with you,” said De Niro, after refusing to pose for a photograph with (Arnold Schwarzenegger)>/a>. (Press did manage to snap a few shots before the kerfuffle.)

IT'S safe to say that Robert De Niro isn't a fan of Donald Trump after the Hollywood actor announced that he would "like to punch him in the face." Speaking in a new clip released by Anonymous Content, the 73-year-old star didn't hold back as he professed his sheer disdain for the presidential candidate, who he branded "a mutt who doesn't know what he's talking about." The video was unveiled during last night's The Kelly File and saw the veteran actor declare his utter contempt for the businessman.

U.S. actor and producer Robert De Niro said on Saturday that U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump should not run for president because he was "totally nuts". Trump, a billionaire businessman seeking his first public office, has courted controversy with a string of inflammatory statements about his main opponent Hillary Clinton, guns, Mexicans, Muslims and war veterans, among others. De Niro made the comments to a Sarajevo audience as he presented a digital version of Martin Scorsese's film "Taxi Driver", in which he starred, to mark its 40th anniversary. "I don't know, it's crazy that people like Donald Trump ...,...

“Every day, for 40 f%^&% years, one of you has stopped me on the street and said, ‘You talkin’ to me?’” groused Robert De Niro at a recent Q&A at the Tribeca Film festival reuniting the makers of “Taxi Driver”. Martin Scorsese, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Cybil Shepherd and screenwriter Paul Schrader all swapped anecdotes, and De Niro led the audience in one last rendition of his most famous line, in an effort to expunge the ghost. He’s not the only one haunted by the role, which remains the template for every young Hollywood actor eager to put the lucre...

Robert DeNiro may be one of the best actors of his generation but when it comes to the hospitality industry, the star apparently has a lot to learn. Nobu Hotel Manila, which is co-owned by the actor, chef Nobu Matshuhisa and movie producer Meir Teper, was named as the worst new luxury hotel of 2015 by Luxury Travel Intelligence (LTI), a members-only group that touts membership comprised of jetsetters and high net worth individuals, on their annual best and worst new hotels list. DeNiro, who has worked with the lauded Japanese chef in his growing restaurant empire, was not able...

Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro is the kind of Hollywood sycophant Democrats adore. In an interview published in September's Du Jour, De Niro said of Barack Obama, "He's a good person, period...he represents, I think, the best of the type of people that I would like to see running the government."

American actor Robert De Niro landed in Israel with his son Tuesday morning for a 24-visit, highlighted by his appearance at this evening’s birthday bash for President Shimon Peres, who turns 9o on August 2. DeNiro, who is not Jewish, met with the president at his Jerusalem home, and among other topics, they spoke about the Iranian nuclear threat. The president also related to the actor and his 17-year-old son the modern history of the re-establishment of the State of Israel and the country’s relations in the Middle East. The prize-winning actor said he brought is 17-year-old son with to...

ALBANY, N.Y. – A formal complaint filed with New York's lobbying board asks it to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group that includes Yoko Ono and other A-List celebrities, is violating the state's lobbying law, according to the document obtained by The Associated Press. The Independent Oil & Gas Association, an industry group that supports gas drilling, filed the complaint Tuesday with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Robert De Niro wasn't acting when he broke down in sobs on Katie Couric's day time talk show Monday. The usually tough-guy actor was a guest on Katie to discuss the hit film Silver Linings Playbook with director David O. Russell and co-star Bradley Cooper. When asked about the film's premise - that of a bipolar character trying in vain to fit in - The Goodfellas actor began to cry. 'Did you feel a greater responsibility about doing a film that David had so much personally invested in?' the anchor asked, following up on a question asked of Russell. 'Of...

Michelle Obama fired up the stars in Tribeca Monday night for her hubby’s reelection bid. An A-list crowd — Beyoncé and her mother Tina Knowles, “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg, Star Jones, actors Ben Stiller, Angela Bassett and Alfre Woodard, and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and his fashion designer wife — turned out for the Obama cash bash. The fund-raiser was hosted by Robert De Niro and his wife, Grace Hightower, at Locanda Verde, the restaurant in his Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca. It seemed like the only big name missing was Jay-Z, who was performing at the Darby on W....

Donald Trump slammed Robert DeNiro Monday, following the Oscar-winner’s criticisms of him this weekend, telling Fox News that the actor is “not the brightest bulb on the planet.” “I like his acting, but in terms of when I watch him doing interviews and various other things, we’re not dealing with Albert Einstein,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” Monday. “He can say what he wants but the fact is that this guy has not revealed his birth certificate, a lot of people agree with me.” DeNiro is among a growing number of Hollywood stars who have criticized Trump for his comments,...

Robert DeNiro is none too pleased with potential 2012 presidential candidate Donald Trump. The Huffington Post reported that in an interview with NBC anchor Brian Williams at Saturday’s Tribeca Film Festival, DeNiro challenged Trump’s political statements, alluding especially to The Donald’s suggestion that President Obama may not have been born in America. “I won’t mention names, but certain people in the news the last couple weeks, just, what are they doing? It’s crazy. They’re making statements about people that they don’t even back up,” DeNiro said. “Go get the facts before you start saying things about people.” DeNiro went on...

“New York is clean and becalmed now — a nice place to visit with your kids, do some shopping, see the sights. Thirty-five years ago, it wasn’t. For many who lived in the five boroughs, it was a desperate time, and you could feel it out there, day and night. For us, everything in Paul Schrader’s brilliant script — the loneliness, the paranoia, the feeling of barren, dirty streets filled with angry people — was magnified.” So explains Martin Scorsese in the introduction to photographer Steve Schapiro’s retrospective of the 1976 classic “Taxi Driver.” Schapiro, who worked behind the scenes...

Tinseltown tough guy Robert De Niro got all choked up and wiped away tears yesterday when he tried to talk about his feelings for the Kennedy clan just hours before he took the stage at Symphony Hall to pay tribute to Jack, Bobby and Ted. “I get emotional,” a verklempt Bobby D said, reaching for a handkerchief to dry his nose and the tears welling in his eyes. “I think that says it.” De Niro’s breakdown came as he and fellow actors Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris and Cherry Jones joined Boston Pops poohbah Keith Lockhart, composer Peter Boyer and lyricist...

Here are images of a couple Ramahannakwanzmas presents the pResident gave himself this year…

Former Las Vegas casino executive and mob-connected sports handicapper Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal has died at his Florida home at age 79. Rosenthal had been living in Miami Beach and died of a heart attack Monday. No funeral services have been scheduled. A sports gambling pioneer, Rosenthal at one time ran the Stardust, Fremont and Hacienda hotel-casinos secretly......

Just under 4 years ago, I started this blog after meeting several devout Christendom College students after a Sunday Traditional Latin Mass at St. Mary, Mother of God Catholic Church in Washington, DC. The previous month, I had traveled to England and visited several Catholic sites, including the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, and had seen Catholic art in the National Gallery in London. I was inspired, by the events of that time and by those students, to blog about Catholic subjects, especially Catholic art, feast days, and devotions; and also, write about Traditional Latin Masses in the Washington,...

DHP Review: Righteous Kill by Dirty Harry Robert De Niro and Al Pacino both starred in The Godfather II (1974) but were never on screen together (De Niro appeared as Pacino’s father in flashbacks); they also co-starred in Michael Mann’s Heat (1995), but only shared a couple of scenes. With Righteous Kill the screen icons finally, truly co-star as veteran NYPD homicide detectives and decades-long friends hunting a vigilante serial killer who might just be a cop — maybe even one of them. No one likes to say so, but it’s just too true to ignore that De Niro and...

Looking for information about DeNiro's new flick "The Good Shepherd", which he directed and in which he stars with Matt Damon, A. Jolie, Joe Pesci and Alec Baldwin. This tagline found on IMBD.org, The true story of the birth of the CIA through the eyes of a man who never existed, plus the fact the DeNiro directs, leads me to believe it might be a hatchet job on the CIA.

(New York) AP - If you pick up your telephone and the voice on the other end sounds like actor Robert De Niro or singer Tony Bennett urging you to vote for U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D, N.Y.),v it probably is. In pre-recorded messages, De Niro and Bennett are lending their voices to urge voters around the state to vote for Clinton, who is running for re-election.