Robert De Niro Meryl Streep attend "family" art show

(17 May 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Various exteriors of Galleria Benucci in Rome
2. Galleria Benucci sign
3. Worker adjusting painting, lights
4. Close up of the same
5. News conference with big Baroque bed in back ground
6. Robert De Niro followed by Meryl Streep, Streep looks at painting
7. Painting by Robert De Niro Senior entitled "Interior with Guitar Case"
8. Three paintings from distance
9. Pan Up, "Mother with Child"
10. Close up of signature "De Niro"
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert De Niro, actor:
"My father's work was certainly a romantic element, he was very romantic, emotional, naive, but sophisticated at the same time. Great taste."
12. Painting "Seated Nude" 1965
13. Paintings and doorway
14. Various of "Still Life" 1968
15. News conference
16. Photographer, journalists
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert De Niro, actor:
"He had a studio in Soho, (which is) now so trendy, but at that time it might as well have been in Siberia in New York City, and there was nothing glamorous about it at that time, this was in the 50s.That's one thing that I remember."
18. "Girl in Red" 1966
19. Signature of De Niro
20. "Seated Nude" 1971
21. "Nude leaning on back of Chair" 1970
22. Meryl Streep
23. Journalists
24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert De Niro, actor: (on his parent's opinion of his job)
"They were very happy, they were supportive of whatever I wanted to do. Especially if it was in the arts, they might not have been as happy if it was something that was not. But they never encouraged me or discouraged me in any way."
25. Gallery
26. Sculpture by Don Gummer, Meryl Streep's husband
27. Various of Don Gummer sculptures
28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Meryl Streep, actress:
"I think he doesn't like it when I describe the work. But there is a certain optimism and rootedness, the two things about him that are characteristics that I admire about him that you see in the work. Rootedness, (is) a centered, grounded, but then a sort of an upward reaching optimism and fluidity, understanding, musicality."
29. Various of Gummer's sculptures.
30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Don Gummer, sculptor:
"This is to me, is a sort of figurative piece. It has the lines of a counter-postal pose. The disks are like the halo's, the coins. When my wife said about my optimism, it's something that the lower circles are smaller in different sizes and they increase in size as they rise up, and show that in this particular piece with water, it is about gravity, about water falling and about the work trying to fight gravity at the same time."
31. Streep looking at her husbands piece's in the gallery
32. More of Don Gummer's sculptures
DE NIRO AND STREEP ATTEND "FAMILY" ART SHOW
An exclusive gathering from the art world met on Monday at Rome's Gallery Benucci, which offered an intimate glimpse into the families of actors Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep.
The two stars are related to artists, and were in the Italian capital to display the work of De Niro's father and Streep's husband.
Paintings by Robert De Niro Senior (1922-1993) and the sculptures of Don Gummer were on view.
A large baroque canopied bed set the stage for the news conference.
The Roman Benucci gallery, which is showing the De Niro works, usually hosts a mix of Baroque and contemporary art.
The actors sat together with the Roman gallery owner Ida Benucci and New York gallery owner Lawrence Salander.
De Niro, who has said that Meryl Streep was his favourite actress with whom to work, said his father had "great taste."
Robert De Niro Senior was born in Syracuse, New York to an Irish mother and Italian father.
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It is very beautiful and moving what Meryl says about her husband and his work. Too bad not to see his reaction.