Via Il Messaggero:
Amidst the glam and the glitter of the 2007 Rome Film Festival, some stars have taken a bit of time off to enjoy the Eternal City. Oscar-winner Tim Robbins - in Rome to present his new film “Noise” - took a few moments from his day to help direct traffic in Piazza Venezia. In the company of Fabio Grillo, a member of the Polizia force, Robbins climbed atop an elevated pedestal at the center of Rome’s most trafficked piazza, where Grillo provided the actor with a crash-course in the graceful arm movements that direct the five lanes of intersecting traffic that move through the piazza.
Robbins’s day in the Eternal City continued with a visit to Mayor Veltroni in Piazza Campidoglio. Having never before seen the piazza with the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius at its center, he exclaimed, “Mamma mia! Che bello!“
