Happily married Hollywood legend Robert De Niro visited Beijing for the first time last week and was shown around by?Chinese director and actor Jiang Wen.

De Niro is said to be a fan of the director's new movie, Let the Bullets Fly, starring Chow Yun-fat and Carina Lau, and will be giving advice on how to make the final cut more accessible to audiences in the United States.

Jiang took De Niro out for a 67th birthday dinner celebration on Tuesday at the Great Wall. According to various sources, he got the DJ to play the theme music from The Godfather, at which point the American actor did an elegant waltz with his wife.

De Niro shows no sign of slowing down and will next be seen on the screen in the action adventure movie Machete, after which he is set to play a professor in the Italian romance film Manual of Love.

In contrast, the relatively youthful Hong Kong actress Karena Lam is said to be drawing the curtains on her career. The 31-year-old has not renewed her contract/did not get her contract renewed after appearing in Lover's Discourse and the 3D movie Don Quixote.