Giuseppe Paulo "Joe" DiMaggio (/dɨˈmɑːʒioʊ/ or /dɨˈmædʒioʊ/; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands. DiMaggio was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.
A three-time MVP winner and 13-time All-Star, DiMaggio is the only player to be selected for the All-Star Game in every season he played. During his thirteen years with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships.
At the time of his retirement, he ranked fifth in career home runs (361) and sixth in career slugging percentage (.579). He was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken in the baseball centennial year of 1969.
His brothers Vince and Dom also became major league center fielders.
DiMaggio was born in Martinez, California, the eighth of nine children born to immigrants from Italy, Giuseppe (1872–1949) and Rosalia (Mercurio) DiMaggio (1878–1951). He was delivered by a midwife identified on his birth certificate as Mrs. J. Pico. He was named after his father; "Paolo" was in honor of Giuseppe's favorite saint, Saint Paul. The family moved to San Francisco, California, when Joe was a year old.
Plot
Summer, 1961: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are on pace to break the most hallowed record in U.S. sports, Babe Ruth's single-season 60 home runs. It's a big story, and the intense, plain-spoken Maris is the bad guy: sports writers bait him and minimize his talent, fans cheer Mantle, the league's golden boy, and baseball's commissioner announces that Ruth's record stands unless it's broken within 154 games. Any record set after 154 games of the new 162-game schedule will have an asterisk. The film follows the boys of summer, on and off the field: their friendship, the stresses on Maris, his frustration with the negative attention, and his desire to play well, win, and go home.
Keywords: 1960s, anger, announcer, anti-hero, applause, asterisk-in-title, athlete, babe-ruth, baby, baltimore-maryland
Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Why did America have room in its heart for only one hero?
Mickey Mantle: I like women with small hands, they make my dick look big.
Bob Sheppard: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Yankee Stadium.
Yogi Berra: Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
Whitey Ford: [Sotto voce, to Mickey Mantle] This guy died and nobody told him.::Commissioner Ford Frick: As I stand here this afternoon, it is impossible not to think of the Babe; not to feel his presence here even now. He was more than a ball player. He was everything that is special about this game. He was everything that is special about America.::Mickey Mantle: [Sotto voce, to Whitey] I bet I got more pussy than he did.
[about the sports press]::Mickey Mantle: That's just great. One guy's got me all washed up, the other's got me beatin' Ruth's record. You guys should get together an' make up your minds, tell me how I am so I know how to play.
[after a home run]::Roger Maris: Curveball?::Mickey Mantle: Yeah, but it didn't curve.
Mickey Mantle: Roger, are we feuding?::Roger Maris: They said so on the TV, it must be true.::Mickey Mantle: Well, fuck you then.::Roger Maris: Up yours.
[after Maris hits #59, he sits down next to Mickey]::Mickey Mantle: What happened? I was on the john.
Mickey Mantle: [whispers to Maris] That blonde back there has got the biggest tits I've ever seen in my life.
Mickey: I just ain't getting there. I just can't play no more. I'm wore out, done. I'm out of the race. Thought I took pretty good care of myself too.::Roger: You did Mick. Damn straight you did.::Mickey: Well anyway, he's all yours if you want him. You go get that fat fuck.
Plot
In the 1950's and 1960's Frank Sinatra was the head of the infamous "Rat Pack". He, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop worked and played together. This film dramatizes their volatile relationships with each other and the Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe, mobster Sam Giancano, Judith Cambell and the FBI. Sinatra helps John Kennedy get elected in 1960 with a little help from Giancano. Lawford, married to a Kennedy, is an unhappy go-between. Davis is fighting racism and insecurity. Cambell is sleeping with both Giancano and JFK who is also sleeping with Monroe.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, actor, brother, entertainer, fbi, friendship, interracial, interracial-relationship, italian-american
It was their world. We just lived in it.
They never let business get in the way of having fun.
They never let the rules get in the way of having fun.
Peter Lawford: I'm an actor, Frank! All I want to do is act in movies, and cheat on my wife. Is that too much to ask?
Frank Sinatra: If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.
Frank Sinatra: How tall are you, Peter?::Peter Lawford: About six foot one.::Frank Sinatra: Don't cut yourself off at the knees.
Frank Sinatra: [to Mia Farrow] You walk out that door baby, you walk out of my life!
Joey Bishop: Hey, did we kill tonight or what? [Dean does not reply] We killed tonight. I haven't laughed like that...::Dean Martin: ...since I played a little club in Poughkeepse back in 1944.::Joey Bishop: What're you saying, we weren't funny tonight?::Dean Martin: What I'm saying is erm... watch this. [to two women] Scuse me ladies [he babbles, and they laugh]::Joey Bishop: Yeah, so?::Dean Martin: So, the world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment pally. One of these days everybody's gonna wake up with a heck of a hangover, down two aspirin and a glass of tomato juice and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about.
Frank Sinatra: There's a reason why we're all here tonight...::Dean Martin: You threatened us. [laughter] Did he threaten you too Sammy?::Sammy Davis, Jr.: Um, I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it might incinerate me baby.
Dean Martin: Hey Frank, how do you make a fruit cordial?::Frank Sinatra: I don't know Dean, how do you make a fruit cordial?::Dean Martin: Be nice to it.
Marilyn Monroe was our fantasy. Norma Jean was her reality.
Marilyn Monroe: Oh, no, Johnny, you need your rest.::Johnny Hyde: I'll get my rest when I'm dead, which is going to be sooner rather than later. You know that, Marilyn.
Johnny Hyde: How can you be so cold?::Marilyn Monroe: Because you let me.
Marilyn Monroe: Oh, that's what I love about you, Monty. You're the only one I know that's more fucked up than me.
Plot
The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity. The movie begins with Norma Jean as a child and ends with the mysterious way she dies. Throughout the movie, we see the highlights and lowlights of her career, including the parts of her private life not widely known.
Keywords: actress, agent, based-on-novel, career, character-name-in-title, fame, hollywood, icon, marriage, orphan
Her image was perfection.....her life was a personal hell
Danny The Duck: I can land enough talent in your lap to entertain the world.::Tony Gordoni: Yes, but I don't want them in my lap. I never mix business with pleasure.::Danny The Duck: Don't take me illiterately!