..When I think of myself sitting around playing straight for that phony patriotic chatter.Me! Carrying bibs for an infant with little flags in his fist.I- I can't take it Diz.I quit.I'm through.She is not above sabotaging the achingly young Senator's position through the press - she sets up a press conference to make a fool of him.Ryan jumped to safety and was picked up by a rescue team helicopter that saw the fiery explosion.In the final scene set in the Ryan kitchen, Catherine learned the results of her amniocentesis, but failed to tell Jack or Sally the gender of their child before the credits rolled.The tale of Jake La Motta's downfall is a reversal of the sentimental, much-loved boxer/hero story inRocky (1976).Leading a fairly lonely and rather dull, austere life, and soon becoming aloof, his existence at Brookfield is distant and he is only cooly respected by others.