Writer Emma Brockes recently put up with Robert De Niro “glumly” answering questions, referring to her as “darling,” and eventually cutting short their interview. Emma Brockes is a lucky writer, indeed.

“You want the truth?” Jack Nicholson, as Col. Nathan R. Jessup, famously asked in A Few Good Men. “You can’t handle the truth!” Classic. Robert De Niro wasn’t in that movie, but I bet you can picture him saying that quote, too. And that’s what this post is about: the truth.