Society confidential: More De Niro stimulus dollars spread around (owner of THE IRISHMAN location has another brush with Hollywood)

More De Niro stimulus dollars spread around

Janet Belcoure , who owns the Roma Café, was sitting outside The Hill restaurant in Grosse Pointe one recent Thursday waiting for a pal when she spotted a familiar-looking gentleman a few tables away. He had to be a customer from the Roma, she thought. After he noticed her staring, she blurted out, "Hi, I'm Janet from the Roma Café." The man piped back, "Hi, I'm Robert De Niro ."

"I explained that I owned a restaurant, so he wouldn't think I was nuts," Belcoure says. The actor had been working on a film in western Michigan ("Stone") but was sleuthing sites for another movie. After both dined with friends, he quietly paid her tab. It was her second brush with Hollywood glamour in a week. The cast of "The Irishman," including Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken, had taken over The Roma for a day's shoot the previous Tuesday. Daughter Jessica Belcoure , 24, appeared as an extra, which meant her hair had to be ratted up into a 1966 'do, to her extreme shock. (The film is set in 1960s-'70s Cleveland). Belcoure was pleased to see so many Michigan crew members at work, "It's the whole point of that tax incentive," she says. She slipped her card to De Niro in case he needs an Italian restaurant for his upcoming flick.

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