European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse February the stars and stripes Page 19 Jake la Motta is no longer that raging Bull by United press International Jake la Motta May have been a raging Bull during his brutal Days in the prize ring but today the ancient Battler is As Placid As storied old Ferdinand the subject of one of the screens most abject anti heroes in raging the soft spoken and acknowledges Hes not the same Man so brilliantly depicted in the film by Robert de la Mot who could take a punch better than any fighter in memory he was never knocked Down in More than 100 fights gives no sign of being his brooding Brown eyes Are his memory especially for the opponents and cities of his fights is accompanied by his eldest la Motta is winding Down three years of his association with raging the 58yearold former middleweight nastily dressed in a three piece Gray was in Holly Wood to talk about the his weight hovers near his old fighting la Motta began work on the film with director Martin Scorsese in 1977 when the script was still being ironed it is based on Jakes 1970 he will remain on the films payroll until he completes the promotional because de Niro rarely Grants la Motta has been charged with Selling the More interesting than his screen Bobby de Niro and i spent a year working together before the picture la Motta he trained More for the part than i thought was he worked out every Day from april of 1977 to april of he studied my old fight films hour after he boxed More than rounds with me plus Many More with other i told him when we were in the ring to go All not to pull his punches because he Hurt i was never Hurt in the i never Felt i psyched myself into not feeling but Bobby gave me four Black eyes Over the he damaged my nose and did damage to the Caps on my and he fractured a i gave him some Good and he took them when the picture Bobby fought exactly in my exactly like i and Hes so Good he could fight professionally right not that hed be but he can handle himself in the ring like a Jake was a bloated 220 pounds when he and de Niro began working in his quest for de Niro gained 60 pounds during the course of the film to portray Jake accurately in his later when Bobby gained All that i asked do i look As bad As you Jake when he said i went on a diet and lost 60 pounds while he was putting it All in i lost pounds during my Jake is portrayed As an unsympathetic neanderthal throughout most of raging an brutal Low life who beats his wife and brother and throws fights for the on screen he is an uncouth a middleweight Champ Jake la who was never knocked Down in More than 100 fights and actor Robert de Niro As the fighter in la Mottas life Story raging most people would sue United Scorsese and anyone else connected with the claiming defamation of character or certainly it would seem unlikely a Man thus depicted would cooperate with the films almost 100 percent on the i dont enjoy seeing myself up the picture ends in 1964 and i want the same Man i am during my fighting career i worked at being mean and that the attitude i had to take to become a i talked myself into it Over a period of it worked for i became and i spent More years afterwards talking myself out of being that brutal raging but the worst time of my life was 10 or 11 years ago when i was writing my life i had no i was broke and living in new id taken acting lessons and worked in a dozen movies and did some summer Stock Over the i did a few commercials and some Public speaking at sports it want i had lost my the most Beautiful woman i Ever id been married five id been in id earned million in All my fights and blown it those we rent Good times to look Back i didst even enjoy blowing All the i just threw it away and then lost everything that mattered to Jake is far from a broken Man his aut Obiora which was a Soso seller a decade is Selling spectacularly since raging Bull was he also has a percentage of the films now lives with his father in Manhattan and the exch amp is Back on Good terms with his beloved in a in the Champ 30 years after i lost my title la Motta the real end of that movie is this minute and the i am what i am today a better person because i lived though being a raging goodbye to Blue Ridge and a primetime obsession by Peter Boyer associated press Anatomy of a prime time it began on the sunday night of december 1971 As things it will end on a thursday night in May this As obsessions i guess youd Call this one rather but i Tell a grown Man Doest lightly Bear such a much More wicked inclinations Are daily indulged with More i and have been for nine addicted to the there was a Sharp chill out that sunday i re and Shiloh the wonder Dachshund stretched and stirred before the Chicken Stew simmered on the i didst know but this Homey Little scene was working at my smoothing the Way for what was to on the final strains of some forgotten nil game were played it came the Home a made forces movie with Patricia Neal and Andrew it was a schmaltzy Holiday set in Virginias Blue Ridge during the Patricia Neal was the and there were a Bunch of kids decorating the tree and carrying on and waiting for their daddy to come it was storming one of the wanted to be a he exaggerated a Southern accent not pure i noted and hid his diary under his daddy was very after an hour or so of fretting and daddy finally bowed with it was a touch ing if youre touched by such As when daddy knowing handed Johnboy his very own big chief writing Shiloh i was hooked right although i didst realize it until a year later when the Homecoming showed up As a regular lbs the and i found myself Clearing away tuesdays it was on then to watch this to Ralph Waite had become Michael Learned was will Geer and Ellen Corby were Granddaddy and grandma Richard Thomas began to smooth Over his the Little kids were an amorphous blur of giggles and whines Back but soon they developed into Mary Ben and Little the Waltons moved to and kept coming so did the fictional Waltons its air thick with moralistic beckoned anew each John encouraged by the gentle and literary miss began serious Pursuit of the he went to Boatwright where he read Thomas Johnboy came Back to Waltons Mountain to publish his own the Blue Ridge until in he went off to new where his first novel was being the next Richard Thomass Johnboy joined the a in new and was Only seen once a new uninspired and singularly is hardly Worth Back on the Mary Ellen grew got had a baby and became a Ike Godsey took on a wife a woman of Zesty old Zeb Walton grandma suffered a mama endured a polio but was struck Down by the Baldwin those archetypal Vir Ginia brewed their daddy and mellowed into Sweet old after nine the Waltons is Ralph Waite made his last appearance last leaving Only the Baldwin Ike Godsey and five of the kids from the original at the end of this season there Areno plans to broadcast any More original and i will regain Possession of thursday May be ill spend them drinking or shooting or perhaps just hanging out on Street maybe ill write a novel on or even read Richard Thomas and Michael mama Dies of consumption and John boy takes off for a Job with
