The Guardian:

The thawing of Robert De Niro has been as astonishing to witness as the shattering of a glacier cliff.

It started on the promotional trail for Silver Linings Playbook, during a Katie Couric interview in which De Niro broke down – or, more accurately, the audience waited respectfully while the actor arm-wrestled his welling emotions to the ground, holding up a hand apologetically the way you might for waiting traffic. Couric didn’t have the heart to hit him with a follow-up.

The actor teared up again last week when talking to Out magazine about his artist father, who was gay – as a new documentary reveals.

I’m a big De Niro fan so this is a must see for me. The documentary is called Remembering the Artist Robert De Niro, Sr. It’s running periodically on HBO, available on-demand, and on HBO Go.