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“Legendary actor Robert De Niro is here tonight, everyone,” said Joel McHale in his remarks at The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at The Washington Hilton. “Now, I don’t do a De Niro impression, but I do an impression of Robert De Niro’s agent. You ready? Here it is. Ready? Ring, ring. He’ll do it.”
De Niro was celebrated the previous night at the Washington, DC premiere of HBO’s documentary: A Father. A Son. A Legacy. Remembering a Legacy, hosted by Politico at Longview Gallery followed by a Q and A with De Niro, film director and producer Perri Peltz, director Geeta Gandbhir and POLITICO’S Mike Allen.
Robert De Niro, Jr. and Grace Hightower De Niro
A documentary on a parent must take an emotional toll. De Niro himself seemed in that place at the discussion that followed the screening.
In attendance was House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) CEO and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) as well as 200 other guests.
The Pelosi Family
The documentary was well received at Sundance this year and De Niro says he made it out of an “obligation” to give his father his due as an artist. “De Niro, Sr. was an abstract expressionist painter whose once-well-respected paintings fell out of fashion in the 1960s during the rise of the Pop Art movement. The 40-minute film centered on his art, his struggle for recognition and the father-son relationship between the two men.” POLITICO
The movie opened with De Niro, Jr. calling his father “the real thing” as an artist and describing him as a “very loving father.”
De Niro and De Niro – The resemblance is uncanny
Hollywood on the Potomac chatted with Morgan Spurlock and Chris Dodd on the Red Carpet:
