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April 30, 2005
No looking back: Harvey Keitel's lifetime award
Sheila Johnston sits with the irascible Harvey Keitel after the Istanbul Film Festival tosses the 65-year-old a lifetime achievement trophy. "I meet him again over breakfast... in the Ottoman splendour of the Ciragan Palace on the banks of the Bosporus. Keitel is in a sunny mood and enthuses about his first visit to a hammam. He orders a double decaf espresso with milk on the side, which he slurps appreciatively throughout the interview, and a couple of simit, Istanbul's version of the bagel." But it's not an entirely sunny gathering, she concludes. "Keitel, so eloquent when talking about the Work or Sitting, is less keen to talk about the Family. "I'm not going to discuss that situation," he says with an air of finality, and though he has been thoroughly gracious up to that point, I get a brief glimpse of a man whom it would be best not to cross."
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