The Taxi Driver and Raging Bull star, 67, will collect the prize at the 2011 awards, to be held on 16 January.

BBC: Robert De Niro to receive lifetime Golden Globe award

Kenneth Kehrer, a consultant, estimates that the average American bank has managed to sell mutual funds to fewer than 8% of its customers even in the midst of a raging bull market.

ECONOMIST: The trials of megabanks

The director, whose previous work had included gritty features including Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, said that his east coast pedigree had made it tough to impress the Academy.

BBC: Martin Scorsese: What the Oscar winner did next

The most flagrant of these miscarriages of justice occurred in 1981, when the Motion Picture Academy chose Robert Redford's plodding direction of "Ordinary People" over Mr. Scorsese's bravura work in "Raging Bull, " which is the most powerful of the four films in this new DVD box.

WSJ: Fighting Irish

Rather than pump up the combat in the testosterone-fueled tradition of movies like "Raging Bull, " Ms. Kusama understates it, holds everything to human scale without pulling any punches.

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Today Gordon is a raging uranium bull, and he also likes the Pickerington, Ohio-based maker of Dearforms slippers, R.

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Mr Lip, born Frank Anthony Vallelonga, made his film debut as a wedding guest in The Godfather and later appeared in successful gangster titles Goodfellas, Raging Bull and Donnie Brasco.

BBC: Tony Lip

" These films are consistent with my family's past viewings at Christmas: "Apocalypse Now, " "Raging Bull, " "Schindler's List, " the DVD of "Scarface" and "Bad Santa.

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