SOLIDARITY: Robert De Niro, Roman Polanski and Arnon Milchan
Close collaborators and friends from the "old days", Arnon Milchan, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Robert De Niro and Elizabeth McGovern will be appearing at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate an ode to Arnon Milchan and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, along with a few other classics. The book Confidential: The life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon contains an entire chapter on the making of Once Upon a Time in America, with never-before revealed details. As you read the excerpts below from Confidential, please keep in mind that as all of this is going on, according to FBI files, Arnon Milchan was shipping nuclear weapons triggers from the US to Israel though a front company called "Milco", which was actually discovered by the FBI during the filming of Once Upon a Time in America. Just an amazing set of circumstances:
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