He achieved international acclaim and recognition for his . I have three children. Of all the dbuts I attended in more than fifty years as a theatre critic, Pacinos was the most sensational: immediate, arresting, and inexplicable. And the audience connected to this terrible sense of humiliation, of unworthiness. Pacino won an Obie for Best Actor, and a Tony the following year, for his performance in Don Petersens Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?. Inevitably, they stop in front of his rented house, which, like the actor, is elegantly dishevelled. [99] Justin Chang wrote, "De Niro, Pesci and Pacino are at the top of their game, in part because they aren't simply rehashing the iconic gangster types they've played before. Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 - 15 December 1962) was a British actor. 3. [6] Pacino and Clayburgh were cast in "Deadly Circle of Violence", an episode of the ABC television series NYPD, premiering November 12, 1968. Wait a while, Coppola said. The barricade finally lifted. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images He gave me a passion for the theatre, she said. He can certainly roar; he can pound the furniture; he can go big with the facial expressions; he has made some dud movies. Secondary characters and plots do take center stage here. Im blessed. By the next frame, his score was fifteen. With a gunseven million. It has taken Pacino four years to work himself back to a position where, he says, compared to a normal person, I have a significant amount. He sold a Snedens Landing property, did commercials, took out a loan, and signed on for Adam Sandlers dismal but profitable Jack and Jill (2011)a kids movie, according to Pacino, in which he sent up both his legend and his financial predicament. They must have found the curtain call as engaging as the performance., Acting, according to Pacino, is about getting into a state that brings about freedom and expression and the unconscious. Mamet compares Pacinos excavations of his characters to the way Louis Armstrong played jazz: Hes incapable of doing it the same way twice. While Pacino was shooting his last scene for the movie Devils Advocate (1997), in which he played Satan, for instance, he suddenly broke off from the script to launch into a rendition of It Happened in Monterey. Its just absolutely out there, surreal and brilliant, the actress Helen Mirren, whose husband, Taylor Hackford, directed the film, said. New York in the Fall, he said, then steered me back into the living room and deposited me on a sofa to watch Wilde Salom, a docudrama he directed, starred in, and largely bankrolled, which premires this month. Eventually, Al Pacino got his first big role in The Panic in Needle Park at the age of 31 , where he plays a New York City junkie who takes to a life of crime in order to sustain his addiction. Sleepless in Seattle and Serendipity - Love. A few months earlier, hed signed on for an adaptation of the Jimmy Breslin book The Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straight, and M-G-M and the producer, Irwin Winkler, refused to release him. At seventy-four, Pacino sometimes asks himself, When am I just gonna sit back and smell the golf balls? But, with two new movies waiting in the wings (Martin Scorseses The Irishman, about the man who supposedly killed Jimmy Hoffa, and a Brian De Palma bio-pic about Joe Paterno), and a David Mamet play, China Doll, in the works for Broadway in 2015, the answer is not soon. A method actor who learned his craft as a student at the feet of coaches Charles Laughton and Lee Strasberg, the East Harlem native honed his chops at the HB Studio and The Actors Studio (of which . You gotta be kidding, he told his Spanish teacher, when he discovered that the class was conducted entirely in Spanish. Yes, there are flaws, but in them are things youll remember., Pacino protects his talent by leaving it alone, which accounts for his vaunted moodiness. [19], In 1983, Pacino became a major donor for The Mirror Theater Ltd, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Paul Newman, matching a grant from Laurence Rockefeller. Im a slow learner, he said. [29] The previews were done in October 2015. Al Pacino is pacing in his camper, parked on Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, the location for the day's shooting of his latest and most controversial picture, Cruising. Pacino had been spooked in that way before, in his Off-Off Broadway dbut, in a production of William Saroyans Hello Out There, which grew out of Laughtons classes. "[100], In February 2020, Pacino starred as Meyer Offerman, a fictional Nazi hunter, in the Amazon Video series Hunters. Pacino went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Scent of a Woman (1992). They were both dating other people, but their kids got along and they found themselves going to movies together, swimming in Pacinos pool, taking trips to San Diego, the beach. He has kept moviegoers riveted since the 1970s, with roles in films like The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Dick Tracy and Scent of a Woman. He was so sensitive that he was insensitive to his surroundings, Diane Keaton, with whom Pacino had an on-again-off-again relationship in the seventies and eighties, wrote in her memoir Then Again. Sometimes I swear Al must have been raised by wolves. I didnt want to know. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death.. The performance earned Pacino his second Emmy Award[80] for lead actor[81] and his fourth Golden Globe award. He wasnt the character he was playinghe was Al. Pacinos devotion to acting is, in a way, a defense against that self-doubt. They can, and in this case do include, a pleasant quality in the actors face, a human vulnerability that is relatable, and above all, an intensity that blurs the background. . Roll up our sleeves and go to work., Pacinos agent, John Burnham, told me, In his halcyon days he made around fourteen million a picture, but the industrys changed. He has twins, son Anton James and daughter Olivia Rose (born January 25, 2001), with actress Beverly D'Angelo, with whom he had a relationship from 1997 until 2003. ****There are various superstitions connected with reaching his center, and he doesnt want to discuss them ever, Mike Nichols, who directed Pacino in Angels in America, said. Imagine putting on bowling shoes, he saidPacino got behind the wheel of his white Range Rover and headed for Lucky Strike, in Hollywood, which turned out to be more of a bowling den than an alley. I got that from my dad.. Victims of prejudice in The Merchant of Venice and On the Levee.. 82. "[9], After four years at HB Studio, Pacino successfully auditioned for the Actors Studio. . Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi) and Sal Pacino. We wanted to flesh that out a little bit more, to apply some of the things that Als gone through in his life, and, hopefully, not in a super-serious fashion. 'I just felt connected to him,' Pacino recollected. at the Belasco Theater, produced by A&P Heir Huntington Hartford. All rights reserved. He is not a witty and articulate speaker. I kept trying to figure out what I could do to make them mine. People give you room when you get real quiet with your disposition. At the bowling party, however, the tactic wasnt working. Pacino held odd jobs to support the family. The film received generally favorable reviews. Olivia: I dont think Mike knows anybody there. He did not relate to tables or the conversations people had at them., Pacino refers to acting as close to magic. To invoke that spell, he observes many rituals, which sometimes include shaking hands with everyone on a film set before shooting a scene, and heading off for a walk before going onstage. [66] Pacino next starred as lawyer Roy Cohn in the 2003 HBO miniseries Angels in America, an adaptation of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name. Al Pacino [a] 50 . She was playful, with a good sense of humor, but also volatile and reclusive. Where was I? Ill get to it, Pacino told Nichols. I guess it was the right spirit, because it worked. Im a survivor. The movie cost twenty-eight million dollars to make and grossed less than $360,000. As a result, Electronic Arts was not permitted to use Pacino's likeness or voice in the game, although his character does appear in it. I see it. [8][33], Pacino's performance earned him an Academy Award nomination, and offered a prime example of his early acting style, described by Halliwell's Film Guide as "intense" and "tightly clenched". And the costume was important, too. Nearly fifty years ago, when Al Pacino was at the start of his career, Marlon Brando gave him two pieces of advice: dont go to court and dont move to Los Angeles. [8], During later interviews he spoke about Strasberg and the Studio's effect on his career. [8] Upon its initial release, the film was critically panned due to violent content, but later received critical acclaim. Collect, curate and comment on your files. In 1959, Al Pacino finally found the break he was looking for. I was at a function for the South Bronx, which is where I'm . Get out! Poor people dont go into this. Pacino said, I didnt know what she was talking about. When he was working on his performance in The Indian Wants the Bronx, he would walk for hours with Horovitz. The survivor, Pacino said. The films hes interested in now tend to dwell, like The Humbling, Manglehorn, and Danny Collins, on old age and the issues of decline. Al Pacino has admitted he doesn't "remember much" of the 70s. He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York. He told Sonny Corleone, Its not personal, Sonny. I went back in there and finished the run., Laughton, who was for years wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis and who died in 2013, at the age of eighty-four, remained an emotional bulwark for Pacino until the end. Pacino played off the hoots of approvalriding the bull, he calls ittaking the audience into his confidence, and, when he went off course, letting it guide him back to his story. His friends and family prevent him from getting lost in those roles, and he is intelligent enough to be able to channel personal emotions for dialogues, without making an absolute getaway into his past. For the next twenty years I kept losing a man I never had. Sola expounded on the astuteness of Keatons observation. Laughton sat him down and went through the script with him until he fully understood what was going on. Anton James Pacino (born 25 January 2001, Age: 22 years old) is an American video game entrepreneur who is best known as the son of Al Pacino, the globally-famous American actor and one of the most influential actors of the 20th century. He pointed out a watercolor beside the fireplace. $20 million (The Irishman) Sponsors. Once, when they were twelve and sitting on the steps of a tenement after finishing a game of stickball, Lipper said, some guy came over who was thirtyish and started menacing us. "[79], Pacino played Jack Kevorkian in an HBO Films biopic titled You Don't Know Jack, which premiered April 2010. When Im not, its upsetting to me and to them. At one point, Pacino, with a carnation and a floppy handkerchief in his jacket pocket, even pops up as Wilde himself. Peter Bradshaw described it as "glorious" in The Guardian. The very first movie of his that I remember watching was And Justice For Alland it was a most emotional experience. We werent seen. Over time, he became Pacinos mentor, his sidekick, his drinking buddy, his dramaturge, and, ultimately, his business partner. Renowned acting coach Charlie Laughton saw Pacino when he was nineteen in the stairwell of a Bronx tenement, and the first words out of Laughton . My son painted this when he was four. Hes trying to decide if the defense rests. . Sablon Wikidata Segtsg. "Ch" serves as the first letters of his friend and acting teacher, Charles Laughton who's a co-founder of this company. So, as we were bowing, I looked over to the space where I believed the look was coming from and there it was, two seeing-eye dogs still looking at me. Hes channelling something. Or outside in, he said. He seems resigned to the idea that his best performances are behind him. . The thing is, the real Al Pacino is as far removed from the characters he plays as possible. The eldest, Julie Marie (born 1989), is his daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant. In 2007, the American Film Institute awarded Pacino with a lifetime achievement award and, in 2003, British television viewers voted Pacino as the greatest film star of all time in a poll for Channel 4. He has lent his services to cringe-worthy films like Righteous Kill, Stand-up Guys, and the unpardonable Jack and Jill. I usually get myself into a Zen place and am just very quiet, he told me later. [57] Chinese Coffee was included with Pacino's two other rare films he was involved in producing, The Local Stigmatic and Looking for Richard, on a special DVD box set titled Pacino: An Actor's Vision, which was released in 2007. Clayburgh at the time was also appearing on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, playing the role of Grace Bolton. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images). Pacino won an Obie Award for Best Actor for his role, with John Cazale winning for Best Supporting Actor and Horowitz for Best New Play. He has also had an extensive career on stage. It was a whirlwind. Pacino disappeared into work, and, after hours, into a bottle. The New York City native studied as a keen method actor at HB Studio and the Actors Studio under the adept tuition of Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg. He is all brooding menace and crocodile grimace, butchering his way to the top with unnervingly sinister glee. Alfredo James Pacino (/ptino/; Italian:[patino]; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. You cant go back. Pacinos focus, the house makes clear, is resolutely inward. Its my dreamI dont know how to get to it yet, but Ill give it another year. Still, he said, Im fine not having anonymity. Lee Strasberg then asked Pacino to play ONeills character, Hickey, as Hamlet, and Hamlet as Hickey. Its a riveting flick and a DePalma masterclass, but it was criticized heavily upon its release. The promoters referred to this form of entertainment as talk theatre. In essence, Pacino was taking himself on the road. I was so happy. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Pacino has an estimated fortune of $120 million. I think Warren [Beatty] was gorgeous, very pretty, but Al's face is like whoa. "[14], In 2000, Pacino was co-president, along with Ellen Burstyn and Harvey Keitel, of the Actors Studio. Pacino tested three times for the role. Al Pacino becomes them, Lee Strasberg, the longtime director of the Actors Studio, said. I feel like an outsider who got on the inside, so Im inside out, if you know what I mean. Another woman, in formal evening gloves and a gray dress, who positioned herself in front of Pacino to speak to him, told me later that she had devoted her life to theatre after seeing Pacino act in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, on her twenty-first birthday, thirty-nine years before. In The meantime, Pacino's beloved mother and grandfather passed away when he was just 22 years old. After studying at HB Studio for 4 years, Pacino auditioned again for The Actors Studio and was successful. Yoksa siz Insomnia filminde onu rolm yapyor sanyordunuz. One would just want to hear him talk, because things he would say, you'd never heard before He had such a great understanding he loved actors so much. It was adapted by Terrence McNally from his own off-Broadway play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1987), that featured Kenneth Welsh and Kathy Bates. He was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg. 14. And he found the Stanislavsky method boring. (Pacino, who has never married, also has a twenty-four-year-old daughter, Julie Marie, an aspiring writer and filmmaker.) Nowadays, he gets five million. At seventy-four, Pacino has managed to avoid the courts but not Beverly Hills, where he has taken up reluctant residence, for more than a decade, in order to share custody of his now thirteen-year-old twins, Anton and Olivia, with their mother, the actress Beverly DAngelo. If an effort is being made to produce something that has appetite and passion and isnt done just to get the golden cup, it isnt a fucking waste. It felt like I was back on the block, back home, he said. Im a natural, baby, he said, as he accelerated into the balmy night. He walked the edges of rooftops and jumped between tenement buildings. What does a kid who was thirteen, fourteen know about Stanislavsky? he said. I dont remember much of the seventies, he said. Im not being waited on? After a few reverent questions from Ty Burr, the Boston Globes film critic, who was his interlocutor for the evening, Pacino picked up his legend and ran with it: performing as a kid for the deaf aunt (started my overacting, I guess); the high-school teacher who called him a prodigy (How do you spell that?); when he knew he had it as an actor (I hope I never do). Give me my letter back, he said. Olivia: No. What Pacino learned best from Laughton was how to be broke. On television, Pacino has acted in several productions for HBO, including Angels in America (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don't Know Jack (2010), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for each. You know, sometimes you look into the abyss? Pacino said. He spent much of the next year in Boston doing plays (Clifford Odetss Awake and Sing!, Jean-Claude van Itallies America, Hurrah), in which, he said, I played notes that fell flat and I didnt connect. But when Israel Horovitz delivered his one-act The Indian Wants the Bronx to Pacino, in a messy basement room in a building on West Sixty-eighth Street, where he was earning fourteen dollars a week as a superintendent, Pacino found the perfect vehiclea script about two taunting teen-age louts in the Bronx who take out their frustrations on an Indian man at a bus stop. The stain of her possible suicide hangs over Pacinos memory of Rose. I like it.. Thanks to his talent, at the end of junior high Pacino was voted most likely to succeed., Pacino was accepted into Manhattans High School of Performing Arts, which meant that his South Bronx street life was more or less a thing of the past. Im responsible to them. I think that was my darkest period. [30], Pacino found acting enjoyable and realized he had a gift for it while studying at The Actors Studio. [85] In February 2012, President Barack Obama awarded Pacino the National Medal of Arts. A bookshelf extended from the entrance into the large underlit space; jokey signagea poster advertising 10 Rules for Sleeping Aroundhung from the walls; from a distance, beyond the bar, came the echo of ricocheting pins. I was now an actor, he said. He starred in the play, remounting it with director David Wheeler and the Theater Company of Boston in a 50-minute film version. . [7] In the 1980s, Pacino again achieved critical success on stage while appearing in David Mamet's American Buffalo, for which Pacino was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He was also hired to work in the mailroom of Commentary magazine. It seemed like every young, non-union actor in New York City showed up that day, Horovitz recalled. His stay at the school, however, was a short one. [83], He was presented with Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award on September 4, 2011, prior to the premiere of Wilde Salom, a 2011 American documentary-drama film written, directed by and starring Pacino. Leave John alone, Pacino cut in, bringing the conversation effectively to an end. "The Actors Studio meant so much to me in my life. The picture had a fire to it, Pacino said, in Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel. The violence blown up, the language blown up. Ad Choices. In some Eugene ONeill plays, you hear the same thing., Among many odd jobs, Rose worked as a cinema usherette, and when Pacino was three or four she began to take him to the movies. In 2021, Pacino played Aldo Gucci in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci. Were blessed, man, Bellamy said. Train. Dalam periode ini, ia sering menganggur dan menjadi tunawisma, dan kadang-kadang tidur di jalan, di bioskop, atau di rumah teman. Pacino boycotted the Academy Award ceremony, insulted at being nominated for the Supporting Acting award, as he noted that he had more screen time than co-star and Best Actor winner Marlon Brandowho also boycotted the awards, but for unrelated reasons. He was showered with accolades and offers. Al Pacino kronik insomnia hastalndan ok ekmi birisidir. This is what Im meant to do, Pacino says of acting. What do you think youre doing? he remembers her saying. But hes not sad. Keaton said of Pacino, "Al was simply the most entertaining man To me, that's, that is the most beautiful face. I saw his struggle as something that was connected to his intelligence, that innate sense of whats around and being able to adjust to things. He added, The power of the character was in his enigmatic quality. [51] Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "The satanic character is played by Pacino with relish bordering on glee. He saw a new era., On January 17, 1967, for his first scene at the Actors Studio, Pacino presented a monologue from Eugene ONeills The Iceman Cometh, which morphed into a soliloquy from Hamlet. It was risky, but, as Pacino said, Its a risk not to take risks. Breaking a long-standing Studio tradition, the audience of actors applauded his performance. I knew, when the opportunity came, all Id have to do is be there, he said. AL PACINO: . The park was still the park. He is saccharine sweet, and a man who has trouble figuring out what to say for himself. [5]:xix[6]:2 His parents divorced when he was two years old. Pacino went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Scent of a Woman (1992). The Humbling is about as homemade a movie as you can make. However, his early work was not financially rewarding. [86][87][88] Pacino, who plays the role of Herod in the film, describes it as his "most personal project ever". That I needed a dad. When Pacinos junior-high-school drama teacher, Blanche Rothstein, climbed the five flights of stairs to talk to his grandmother about his acting skills, it was, he said, the first time I ever had encouragement. He went on, The world we came from, the encouragement just wasnt there. [48] Pacino starred in Michael Mann's Heat (1995), in which he and Robert De Niro appeared on-screen together for the first time (though both Pacino and De Niro starred in The Godfather Part II, they did not share any scenes). There was this cacophony of soundthe Poles, the Jews, the Irish, the German, the Spanish. There are more demands put on you when it is on the stage, he said. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he has received numerous accolades: including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making him one of the few performers to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting. But watching him trying to play himself makes me wonder about the unhealthiness of such reverence to actors, and how it must ruin their expectations of themselves, and thus, their lives. (I remember years of sleeping between my grandmother and grandfather, he said.) [31] In 1970, Pacino signed with the talent agency Creative Management Associates (CMA). "[42] Pacino returned to film in 1989's Sea of Love,[8] when he portrayed a detective hunting a serial killer who finds victims through the singles column in a newspaper. What are you doing here? Pacino recalled him shouting. That was a remarkable turning point in my life. This is your thing. He sat down on the sofa. Or used to. I was 26, 25 he discovered me and became my manager. He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). Broadway. On my second day with Pacino, I happened to be parked in front of his house as a tour bus rolled up. Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. [38] The film did well at the box office, grossing over US$45million domestically. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. And I understand myself in that way. Pacino has given complex shape to some of his eras most memorable creations: Michael Corleone, the college boy turned Mafioso, in The Godfather trilogy (1972-90); Frank Serpico, the police whistle-blower, in Serpico (1973); Tony Montana, the Cuban drug lord, in Scarface (1983); the hapless thief Teach, in American Buffalo (1983); Sonny Wortzik, the would-be bank robber, in Dog Day Afternoon (1975); the gangster Big Boy Caprice, in Dick Tracy (1990); Ricky Roma, the smooth-talking salesman, in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992); and Roy Cohn, the closeted lawyer, in the HBO version of Tony Kushners Angels in America (2003)to name just a few of the more than a hundred roles he has taken onscreen and onstage. In this period, he was often unemployed and homeless and sometimes slept on the street, in theaters, or at friends' houses. Early Life of Al Pacino. [66] Rarely taking a supporting role since his commercial breakthrough, he accepted a small part in the critical and box office flop Gigli, in 2003, as a favor to director Martin Brest. [70] In Two for the Money, Pacino portrays a sports gambling agent and mentor for Matthew McConaughey, alongside Rene Russo. As Pacino was putting on his bowling shoes, a Lucky Strike staffer approached. He had to find the costume, rehearse in the costume, live in the costume., Some actors play characters. When people ask, How long have you been together?, I say, Forty-nine years. A year with Al is like a dog year because its so intense. She explained, Hes a medium. That same year, he played the lead defense attorney in American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally. Beyond him was a fenced-off swimming pool, and beyond that was what he calls the bunker (as in I hunker in the bunker), a drab beige outbuilding, where he sometimes goes to incubate his roles. Instead of the supremely powerful, soul-destroying young don, Pacino plays Lefty Ruggiero, an aging and not terribly bright Mafia foot soldier who, in a misbegotten act of loneliness and thwarted ambition, takes Johnny Depp's character, an undercover FBI agent, as his protege and surrogate son. The circumstance of the play was bringing him to a deep place of pain. They had a five-year romance and moved back together to New York City. You were here yesterday, he said. [21] Directed by Simon McBurney, the production starred a host of Hollywood names, including John Goodman, Charles Durning, Tony Randall, Steve Buscemi, Chazz Palminteri, Paul Giamatti, Jacqueline McKenzie, Billy Crudup, Lothaire Bluteau, Dominic Chianese and Sterling K. She said, fine, O.K., she wouldnt produce the play. [32] Although Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and the little-known Robert De Niro were tried out for the part, Coppola selected Pacino, to the dismay of studio executives who wanted someone better known. Al Pacino Movies - Al Pacino Famous movies at Scripts.com . I put an eight-by-ten picture of me on the doorkind of looking handsome. It was a great gift.. For his role in the 2010 TV movie, 'You Don't Jack', Pacino received both a Golden Globe and an Emmy award for his role as Dr. Jack. (1982), Ellen Barkin in Sea of Love (1989) and Karen Allen in Cruising (1980). The language of great writing frees you of yourself.. [8][6]:12 Pacino's father was from San Fratello and moved to work as an insurance salesman and restaurateur in Covina, California. Pacino is the director yelling at the crew to hurry up; hes the lubricious Herod eying his gorgeous daughter; hes the interviewer prodding Tom Stoppard, Tony Kushner, Gore Vidal, and Bono to talk about Wilde; hes the professor offering tidbits of Wildeana; and hes the anthropologist trudging through the desert with kaffiyeh and camel. [98] Pacino's performance received positive reviews. The event was a benefit for the GLBT Historical Society. In recent years, he has painted brilliant, eerie film portraits of such obsessives as the euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian, in Barry Levinsons HBO movie You Dont Know Jack, and the eponymous swami of rock and roll, in David Mamets HBO film Phil Spector. Pacino regrets that many of his Hollywood movies of the past decade (Righteous Kill, The Son of No One, 88 Minutes, Jack and Jill) have been business chores, taken on for primarily financial reasons. So I am allowed to take any considerations I want into account, relevant or irrelevant. I just pick things up., In mid-2010, Pacino learned that his business manager, Kenneth I. Starr, had been arrested for embezzling his clients money in a Ponzi scheme. But I dont even know what his name is. [35], In 1975, he enjoyed further success with the release of Dog Day Afternoon, based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz. While Sola plunged into the crowd of chatty celebrants, Pacino took a barstool at a table behind them and ordered a plate of barbecued chicken. "The Godfather" star Al Pacino revealed his initial skepticism over the role of Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's famed trilogy. He has also acted as Shylock in a 2004 feature film adaptation and 2010 stage production of The Merchant of Venice. I roused so many things in myself., Pacinos allegiance to the stage, his compulsion to connect with a live audience, is due, perhaps, to a need to re-create his relationship with the person he calls his first and indeed my best audience, his mother, Rose.