Robert De Niro blames himself for not knowing enough about comedy to pull off future Oscar-winning role
Robert De Niro blames himself for not knowing enough about comedy to pull off a future Oscar-winning role. The ‘Raging Bull’ actor, 80, starred in and started filming the never-produced 1970s film ‘Bogart Slept Here’ – before the script was reconfigured into the 1977 film ‘The Goodbye Girl’, which won its star Richard Dreyfuss, 76, an Academy Award. De Niro said his then-director Mike Nichols, 83, didn’t find him a comedic fit and eventually fired him. He told Quentin Tarantino, 61, about the project during a question and answer session at the Tribeca Film Festival as it launched its De Niro C...