Streep
The Rome Film Festival will honor Meryl Streep with its Marcus Aurelius lifetime achievement award, while Milos Forman has been recruited as jury president.
Streep will hold an onstage conversation about her stellar career during the event's fourth edition, which runs Oct. 15-23.
Previous recipients include Sean Connery and Al Pacino.
Forman will head a six-member jury, which also includes helmer Gabriele Muccino and veteran architect Gae Aulenti.
While Rome has been hard-hit by Italian political turbulence and a budget cut, the fest is clearly aiming to keep a high profile.
Fest is headed by former Venice topper Gian Luigi Rondi, with journo Piera Detassis as artistic director and critic Mario Sesti in charge of the cutting-edge Extra section and of special events, such as Streep's onstage interview.
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