Maximo Award winner Helen Mirren at the Rome fest.
'Sex and the City' star Kim Cattrall in Italy.
Lee Majors and Linsday Wagner.
ROME -- The Rome Fiction Fest gave Italy's insular TV world a healthy jolt of international star wattage strutting down the Adriano theater's orange carpet from July 7-12.
Patricia Arquette came to tubthump "Medium," currently conquering Italo auds;
Kim Cattrall arrived for "Sex and the City," which is still going strong,
Christopher Meloni was on hand for "Law & Order";
William Baldwin,
Peter Krause and
Natalie Zia promoted "Dirty Sexy Money"; and
Balthazar Getty, Luke Macfarlane and
Dave Annable were in town for "Brothers & Sisters," which is an Italo hit.
Helen Mirren, who was honored with the fest's Maximo Award, told reporters she has done her best work for TV rather than film, despite her Oscar-winning perf in "The Queen."
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