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“You’re bigger than US Steel!” exclaimed Billy Crystal to Al Pacino — riffing on Lee Strasberg’s line from “The Godfather Part II” — at a screening of Pacino’s new film “The Humbling,” based on a novel by Philip Roth.

“It’s coming back to me . . . What do I say next?” asked Pacino in front of an LA audience including Sally Field, Eric Idle, “Borat” director Larry Charles and Richard Lewis of his famous scene as Michael Corleone with Strasberg as Hyman Roth. (Pacino doesn’t have a line after that, so his memory was technically accurate.)

Director Barry Levinson couldn’t attend since he was in Washington, DC, preparing his musical “Diner” with Sheryl Crow at the Signature Theatre, which debuts Tuesday.