The Bearded Trio

' After the recent tribute to Steven, I thought today it would be time to honor one of Steven's best known colleagues (other than George of course): Martin Scorcese. Steven and Martin have crossed paths on many occasions: Steven helped with the editing of the finale of Martin's Taxi Driver , Martin directed one of the episodes of Spielberg's Amazing Stories Anthology , acted in the segment on Vincent van Gogh in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (that Steven helped produce), he almost directed Schindler's List , when Steven asked him to, but in the end took Cape Fear out of Steven's hands and give him the director's chair (back) on Schindler , did one of the voices in DreamWorks Animation's Shark Tale , and of course it was Steven and George who presented Martin with his long overdue Academy Award for excellence in Directing , back in 2007 for his work on The Departed . Both Steven and Martin love art (and have collected some, over the year...