Julia Roberts turns heads in Rome

It’s steaming hot in Rome, but regardless, everyone’s on the lookout for Julia Roberts. The Hollywood diva is in the Eternal City this week with director Ryan Murphy to shoot the film version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia.”

Guess which part of the title the heroine pursues in Rome.

You got it, the part that has to do with pistachio gelato and spaghetti alla carbonara.

Roberts has been spotted in sunglasses and a floppy hat near the posh Hotel Raphael on the Largo Febo, at Da Pancrazio restaurant on Piazza del Biscione and haggling for choice cuts at a butcher shop on Via dei Cappellari near the Campo de’ Fiori.

She costars with Javier Bardem and Billy Crudup in the story of a woman’s effort to find herself by traveling the world. The movie is scheduled for release in 2011.

Next stop for the film crew: India, then Bali.

P.S. Here’s what Gilbert said about Rome in “Eat, Pray, Love”:

“I am inspired by the regal self-assurance of this town, so grounded and rounded, so amused and monumental, knowing that she is held securely in the palm of history. I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.”

— Susan Spano, Los Angeles Times staff writer

Photo: Julia Roberts. Credit: Kirk McKoy / Los Angleles Times

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