Al Pacino honored as Rome film festival starts

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ROME (Reuters) – A lifetime achievement award for Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino kicked off the Rome film festival on Wednesday, bringing a Hollywood veteran to the movie showcase which this year has a markedly European flavor.

 

Pacino received the award as one of the great alumni of New York's Actors Studio -- the celebrated drama school where he and other actors like Robert De Niro, the late Paul Newman and Marilyn Monroe learned the ropes of the business.

 

 

He also took questions from members of the public -- a trademark feature of the Rome festival where audiences get to meet their favorite stars.

 

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