" In the arena, a woman screams and a fight breaks out between a fan and a soldier.When the impressionistically-filmed fight resumes in he ring, La Motta half crouches in a closed-in position and "continues o bore in.[Note: She reluctantly revealed that her sister Barbara Henshler (Barbara Lawrence) was suspected of having an affair with Tony.The attempted, intricate 3-minute heist, led by Karla Fry, was foiled by the arrival of Foley and Rosewood, who sounded the alarm, and then pursued the armored van in a cement mixer truck (to the tune of "Be There" by the Pointer Sisters), causing multiple car pileups.She smashes the holder to the ground, and then with a cold, imperious look removes one of the clubs from the bag and throws the entire bag at him.(The role was also turned down by Harrison Ford and Paul Newman).Winger""s role of Emma was originally written for Sissy Spacek.The sit-com style film was about the thirty-year mother-daughter relationship between two women: stubborn brunette Emma (Debra Winger) and her devoted, possessive, blonde, widowed mother Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine).