different prosthetic noses
UT-Austin paper The Daily Texan reports actor Robert De Niro has donated his collecton of movie ephemera to campus archive The Harry Ransom Center. Unlike the Woodward and Bernstein Watergate papers, which fetched $5 million from the archive, it seems like the Hi Mom! star may have simply given the artifacts away. The story gushes over the prospect of students checking out the prosthetic noses the actor used in Raging Bull or the notes on his shooting script for Greetings, a film I’m sure all of three Texan readers know. The HRC has quite an amazing collection of ephemera — like Jean-Paul Sartre’s journals or Edgar Allen Poe’s writing desk — that it’s a little disappointing to think that De Niro’s stuff would be a draw. Maybe some star-struck students will come to see the movie-related stuff, and have their interest in existentialism or photography piqued by one of the other exhibits.
