One of the hotter tickets of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival got attendees into today’s conversation between festival co-founder Robert De Niro and NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. The latter acknowledged that he pitched the event to organizers as a unabashed De Niro fan, and the sprawling subject matter of the hour-long chat — from the Oscar-winner’s school plays to a hilarious anticlimax involving his middle name — yielded more than a few revelations for Williams and the rest of us. Here a few of the highlights:
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At Tribeca: Robert De Niro Talks Scorsese Reunion, SNL Hosting and the GOP’s ‘Big Hustle’
