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(6-24-05) LOTS OF UPDATES

I would like to send my deepest sympathy to the wife and family of Al's dad Sal Pacino who died earlier this year. (see articles below)
Here is Katherin Kovin-Pacino's website http://kkovinpacino.com/ 

Obviously I haven't been able to update the page in quite awhile.  I apologize to those who have sent me info and emails. I'm trying to catch up as fast as I can. 

 

AL'S FATHER SAL PACINO PASSED AWAY ON WED, JANUARY 1, 2005

    (thanks Jules for this info)
    Father of Oscar winner Pacino dies in Covina
    By Rodney Tanaka, Staff Writer
    COVINA -- Sal Pacino, a longtime Covina resident and father of Oscar-winner Al Pacino, has died.
    "He was the love of my life," his wife, Katherin Kovin-Pacino, said Thursday. "He was charming, he was funny. He was just brilliant."
    Pacino, 82, died of a heart attack Wednesday. He once owned Pacino's Lounge, a restaurant, hotel and bar in downtown Covina that closed in 1992. The bar stirred up controversy in the early 1990s after allegations employees served alcohol to minors.
    Demonstrators picketed outside the bar, calling for its closure. The California Alcoholic Beverage Control Department decided not to seek 
penalties.
    Pacino's Lounge is now Citrus Grill. The downstairs bowling alley was turned into a banquet room, Covina spokeswoman Bobbi Kemp said.
    Running Pacino's Lounge was one of many careers Pacino undertook in his life.
    Salvatore Alfred Pacino was born in Manhattan on Feb. 16, 1922.
    He dropped out of school at age 15 after meeting Rose Gerard, 20, and falling in love, according to his Web site, www.salpacino.com . They got 
married when Sal was 17, and a year later Rose gave birth to Alfred "Al" Pacino. But the couple separated soon after and the divorce split father and 
son for years.
    Sal left New York for the military when Al was 3 and later moved to California. The two stayed in touch and visited occasionally, according to a 
1993 San Gabriel Valley Tribune article.
    He eventually remarried, taking a job with Metropolitan Life, where he worked as an insurance salesman for 30 years.
    He married Katherin Kovin, his fifth wife, in 1995.
    Pacino is survived by one son, Al, and four daughters, Josette, Roberta, Paula and Desiree.
    "He loved Al," Kovin-Pacino said. "He was so proud of his son and his daughters."
    Al Pacino's publicist did not release a statement regarding Sal Pacino's death.
    Sal Pacino also became active in the entertainment industry. He was a member of Silver Foxes, parents of stars fighting negative stereotypes about aging and advocating for an active, healthy lifestyle.
    Sal and Katherin Pacino's most recent film project focuses on South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar.
    Pacino moved to Covina in the late 1950s and remained there until his death, Kovin-Pacino said.
    "He really appreciated me," she said. "He cherished me as I cherished him. Everybody knew us as a couple and as an acting team."
    The family will hold a private funeral, she said.

 

Sal Pacino, father of actor Al Pacino, dead at 82

    (thanks Adeline for this info)
    Posted on Fri, Jan. 14, 2005
    Associated Press
    COVINA, Calif. - Sal Pacino, the father of actor Al Pacino, has died at age 82.
    Pacino, a former life insurance salesman who later owned a nightclub, died of a heart attack Wednesday, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
    "He was the love of my life," his wife Katherin Kovin-Pacino told the newspaper Thursday. "He was charming, he was funny. He was just brilliant."
    Pacino married his first wife, Rose Gerard, at age 17, and she gave birth to Al, his only son, one year later. The couple soon separated, causing a split between father and son that lasted for years. Pacino visited with his Academy Award-winning son occasionally. He married Kovin-Pacino, his fifth wife, in 1995.
    Born in New York City, Pacino left for the military when his son was 3 and later moved to California. In his later years, he acted in several small independent movies and joined a group of parents of celebrities called the Silver Foxes, which promoted an active lifestyle for the elderly.
    In addition to his son and wife, Pacino is survived by four daughters, Josette, Roberta, Paula and Desiree.
    A private funeral is planned.

 

TWO FOR THE MONEY

    (thanks Joan Butryn for this info)
    Release Date: TBA 2006
    A trio of big name stars have taken a gamble on D.J. Caruso's next project. Matthew McConaughey, Al Pacino and Rene Russo headline the cast of this $20 million drama about the high stakes world of professional gambling.
    McConaughey plays an All-Pro football player who shreds his knee, thereby ending his career. Think Johnny Utah from Point Break. Seeking a new vocation, he finds himself drawn to the illicit underbelly of world of athletics. He becomes a sports bookie. Think Art Schlicter from Ohio State.
    During his early days in the professional, the ex-athlete is introduced to a tycoon (Pacino) who runs a high profile, high stakes gambling enterprise. And he wants the kid to come play for him. Russo portrays the wife of Pacino.

 

PIC FROM TWO FOR THE MONEY

(thanks Jules for this info)
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=51752668&cdi=0 http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=51774068&cdi=0 

 

MERCHANT OF VENICE PREMIERE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4054601.stm 

 

MERCHANT OF WEBSITES

(thanks Leon for this info)
http://www.sonyclassics.com/merchantofvenice/flash.html  (the official site)

(thanks Joe Roberts for this info)
http://www.mgm.com/uk/merchantofvenice/   (mgm site)

 

MERCHANT OF VENICE DVD

available now (saw it at Walmart here)

 

MERCHANT OF VENICE INTERVIEW

    (thanks Joan Butryn for this info)
    Al Pacino Sets His Sights on King Lear, Macbeth
    Tue Dec 7, 2004 04:13 PM ET 
    By Claudia Parsons

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - After years of gangsters, villains and hard men with a heart, Al Pacino has come back to Shakespeare and after playing
Jewish moneylender Shylock he has his sights set on King Lear and Macbeth.
    "Learning it in school was a bit of a bore," Pacino admitted to reporters in New York where he was promoting his new movie "The Merchant of Venice" in which he plays Shylock. The film opens nationwide on Dec. 29.
    Nonetheless Pacino, now 64 and still best known for playing Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" that first hit screens in 1972, says he did get hooked on the bard at school.
    "Some actors have an appetite for it, some actors don't," he said.
    "It's just what rings your bell."
    He said "The Merchant of Venice" may be difficult for audiences given the moral complexities, particularly his character who loans a fortune on condition that he receive a pound of the borrowers flesh if the loan is not repaid.
    "I've always found there's a way Shakespeare can be presented to make it more entertaining and get a sense of its relevance," he said, recalling his 1996 documentary "Looking for Richard," about Shakespeare's "Richard III," as the project he has been most passionate about in recent years.
    The Oscar winner says he sees Shylock, who endures anti-Semitic insults, is spat on in the street and sees his daughter elope with a Christian nobleman, as more sinned against than sinner.
    Asked about future plans for more Shakespeare, Pacino said he had discussed a couple of movies -- "King Lear," the tragedy of a father and his three daughters, and "the Scottish play," an actor's superstitious reference to "Macbeth."    But Pacino plays down suggestions he is about to become some sort of ambassador for Shakespeare in modern America. 
    "I like him the way other people do. I love him, I love his work but I'm not here to ... represent Shakespeare to the world," he said. "He doesn't need me, he doesn't need anybody, he's going to do fine."

 

MERCHANT REVIEW - NY TIMES

    (thanks Adeline for this info)
    An intelligent `Merchant'
    By A.O. Scott, New York TimesPosted on Fri, Jan. 14, 2005
    ``The Merchant of Venice'' is better-than-average screen Shakespeare: intelligent without being showily clever and motivated more by genuine fascination with the play's language and ideas than by a desire to cannibalize its author's cultural prestige.
    Starring Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes and Lynn Collins and judiciously trimmed to manageable movie length, this ``Merchant'' is, for the most part, faithful in letter and spirit to its source material.
    I say for the most part because ``The Merchant of Venice'' has become, over the past century, perhaps the most vexed play in the Shakespeare canon, and the first task of any modern adaptation is to confront the anti-Jewish bigotry that propels its plot and colors its poetry.
    Director Michael Radford's approach to the problem of Shylock (Pacino) is to add some context. Not only is the story announced as taking place in ``Venice, 1596'' -- a kind of specification wholly alien to the time -- but introductory titles provide some background about the marginal status and civic oppression of that city's Jewish population. As in other parts of Europe, Venetian Jews practiced usury because they were denied access to other economic activities and because lending money at interest, vital to the prosperity of the city-state and its merchants, was something Christians would not do.
    None of which quite explains the character of Shylock or dispels the taint of blood libel from the play. The only real choice is either to declare ``The Merchant of Venice'' off limits or to allow its uglier qualities to continue to complicate its gorgeous flights of rhetoric and its brilliant inquiries into law, loyalty, the ethics of making promises and the quality of mercy.
    Shakespearean dramas take longer to come into focus than do most movies, whose audiences are accustomed to having everything set up in the first 10 minutes. So after a bumpy beginning, Radford, who also wrote the screenplay, succeeds in rendering the complexities with clarity and vigor. Helped by production designer Bruno Rubeo and the exquisitely gifted cinematographer Benoi^it Delhomme, Radford (``Il Postino'') ingeniously views Shakespeare through the lens of his artistic peers and (approximate) contemporaries.
    Watching the film is like seeing a gallery of Renaissance paintings come to life, and while the effect is occasionally contrived, it mostly deepens the wonder and strangeness of the play. To imagine the people captured by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Caravaggio and Titian performing Shakespeare is to approach a visual understanding of the intellectual and artistic eclecticism that characterized the age.
    But every production of Shakespeare, however well designed or sensitively directed, depends finally on the quality of the acting. Since Pacino had done Herod on Broadway and Roy Cohn on HBO, I wondered if Shylock would be another in his scenery-chewing parade of Jewish Monsters Through the Ages. He restrains himself here, however, emphasizing Shylock's grief as much as his viciousness. More than that, his estrangement from the other actors, a liability in more conventional movie dramas, makes sense, given Shylock's status as an outsider, who speaks a rougher verse than his Christian antagonists.
    Of these, Irons, as Antonio, the depressive merchant of the title, is quietly mesmerizing. Fiennes, as his young friend Bassanio (whose courtship of Portia impels Antonio to mortgage his pound of flesh to Shylock), recites his lines beautifully but is upstaged by Kris Marshall, as his feisty second, Gratiano, and also by Collins, whose handful of television and movie appearances hardly prepares one for the radiant authority she brings to the role of Portia.
    Her charisma is crucial to Radford's conception of the play, which places Portia -- both a wily seductress and an exacting ethical intelligence -- at its center. Portia's defeat of Shylock becomes one of the great courtroom scenes in recent movies, a dense, emotionally volatile tableau of cruelty and beauty, much like the rest of Radford's well-judged interpretation of this impossible play.The Merchant of Venice

*** 1/2
Rated: R (mature themes, some nudity)
Cast: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Zuleikha Robinson, Kris Marshall
Director: Michael Radford
Writer: Radford, adapting the play by William Shakespeare
Running time: 2 hours, 7 minutes

 

AL PACINO NAMES HIS TOP FOUR ACTORS

(thanks Jules for this info)
December 1, 2004, 12:12:51
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/15342004.htm 

 

AL'S COMMENTS ON "SIDEWAYS" AND "CLOSER"

(thanks Jules for this info)
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/20212004.htm 

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS INTERVIEW - "Al Pacino reveals his comedy roots"

    Jan. 2, 2005, 6:58PM
    Oscar winner traded stand-up for Shakespeare
    Associated Press
    NEW YORK - Al Pacino as a stand-up comic?
    That's how he started his career, the Oscar-winning actor says.
    There's a facility I have to fall down. I had a certain physical comedy I did with a partner. And I thought I was going to do that," he recently told AP Radio. "But I didn't want to be funny all the time, only when I felt like it. And that's not a good idea."
    Pacino, 64, won the best-actor Oscar in 1993 for Scent of a Woman. His screen credits also include Dog Day Afternoon and The Godfather movies.
    He plays Shylock in his latest film, The Merchant of Venice.
    "There's a bit of a myth here with me and Shakespeare. Like I'm piped into Shakespeare or something," he said. "I'm not. Believe me. I'm not here to be a representative or sort of present Shakespeare to the world. He doesn't need me."
    Pacino also said playing Shakespeare isn't a prerequisite for becoming an important actor.
    "One has to have an appetite for it," he said. "It's not a criteria for, 'Oh, you're going to be a big-time actor if you do Shakespeare.' "

 

LONG INTERVIEW FROM 1973

MovieCrazed
http://www.moviecrazed.com/outpast/alpacdowney.html 

 

THE GUARDIAN (LONG INTERVIEW)

(thanks Jules and Cathe for this info)
Pacino's way, Friday December 3, 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1364502,00.html 
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1364562,00.html  (another link, same article)

 

DOODLING FOR A CAUSE  (a charity Al contributed a drawing to)

(thanks NJ for this info)
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1039327&l=1&t=Hometown+News&c=73,1039327,top 
(here is the doodle)
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=031105a1_doodleteaser 

 

ARTICLE ABOUT COLIN FARREL THAT MENTIONS AL

    (thanks NJ for this info)
    Pacino Sidekick Role Helped Farrell Win Alexander
    http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/pacino%20sidekick%20role%20helped%20farrell%20win%20alexander 

 

LOCAL STIGMATIC RELEASE?

    (thanks Jules for this info)
    Irish Examiner Breaking News
    Pacino movie is two decades late
    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=130489274&p=130489980&n=130490034 

 

SALOME READING TOUR CANCELED

    (thanks Jules for this info)
    http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92265.html

 

RESTAURANT NAMED AFTER AL

    (thanks Pat for this info)
    Don't know if he gets a piece of the profits or not ;)
    http://www.ristorante-al-pacino.de/ 

 

GIAMATTI ANNOYS PACINO BY IGNORING THEATRE SUPERSTITIONS

    (from contactmusic)
    SIDEWAYS star PAUL GIAMATTI upset AL PACINO backstage when the pair teamed up in hit play THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI by ignoring theatrical superstitions.
    Pacino insists on paying strict attention to long-believed quirky superstitions and urges co-stars to do the same, which gave Giamatti the perfect chance to test the movie great.
    He says, "He's got all the theatre superstitions - you're not supposed to say MACBETH because something will fall on your head... I'm always the  guy that says it.
    "You can't whistle backstage, so I whistle all the time. I drove him crazy. I would whistle and he'd come flying out of his dressing room in a rage... which his normal mode of being.
    "He does all the spinning around and he would knock on the door and he'd have to go back in and he'd do all the superstitious stuff... This is why I don't do theatre anymore." 

 

COMPUTER GAMES - GODFATHER & SCARFACE

(thanks James Dunn for this info)
http://www.eagames.com/official/godfather/godfather/us/home.jsp
http://www.scarfacegame.com/us/

 

(12-27-04) AL ON CHARLIE ROSE TONIGHT!

    (thanks Adeline for this info)
    Pacino, Al in an interview with Charlie Rose on PBS or Channel 13, (here in NY State) tonight:
    Charlie made a statement that taking with Al about acting can go on and on, he seemed rather inpressed with the Lovely Bard of our Day  Al, hope you get to view it , but can also buy the VHS if you've missed it:

(10-21-04) DETECTIVE USES PICTURE FROM SCARFACE TO THREATEN SUSPECT

(thanks Joe Roberts for this info)
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10967997%255E1702,00.html 
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10974443%255E2,00.html http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10967997%255E1702,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10971960%255E662,00.html

 

NEW AL MOVIE "TORCH" 

(thanks Jamie S. for this info)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426604/

 

(9-26-04) CARLITO'S WAY PREQUEL IN THE WORKS

    Carlito's Way prequel in the works
    (thanks NJ for this info)
    Hernandez - To play Carlito, 24 September 2004, 
    A prequel to the Al Pacino-starring gangster movie 'Carlito's Way' is due to begin shooting next month.
    Production Weekly reports that 'Carlito's Way, The Beginning' will star Jay Hernandez ('Torque', the new John Travolta movie 'Ladder 49') as Puerto Rican gangster Charlie 'Carlito' Brigante.
    Michael Bregman, who produced 'Carlito's Way', will be in the director's chair, with the film following Carlito's adventures from the 1940s to the early 1970s.
    Luiz Guzman, who played Carlito's sidekick in the first movie, will return, with 'Rocky' star Burt Young also cast.    
    http://www.rte.ie/arts/2004/0924/carlitosway.html

 

(9-23-04) PICTURE FROM PARTY AT GUGGENHEIM

An evening in honor of Azzedine Alaia at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/partypictures/2004/05_25_04/partypictures05_25_04.php 
(it takes awhile to load, the picture of Al is down on the page, but it's a good pic)

 

SCARFACE ACTION FIGURE SET

(thanks Andy for this info)
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MZ19800AA&variation=&lg=1& 

 

FESTIVAL VIDEOS

(thanks Jules for this info)
http://www.scribanetstudio.com/biennale/61/vfl.asp?lt=en&fn=Persona&fv=696 

 

MERCHANT OF VENICE PRESS RELEASE

    (thanks Marie for this info)
    SPC Acquires "The Merchant of Venice"
    New York, August 18, 2004 - Sony Pictures Classics today announced the acquisition of rights in North America and Germany for Michael Radford's "The Merchant of Venice" starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes and Lynn Collins. The film, which will debut at the
Toronto and Venice Film Festivals, will open at year's end.
    Adapted and directed for the screen by Academy Award Nominee Michael Radford ("Il Postino") "The Merchant of Venice" tells Shakespeare's
classic tale of morality, revenge, redemption and love. This modern approach to a timeless tale highlights Academy-Award winners Al
Pacino as Shylock and Jeremy Irons as Antonio, Joseph Fiennes ("Shakespeare in Love") as Bassanio and newcomer Lynn Collins as the
most clever Portia.
    "We are excited to continue our relationship with Sony Pictures Classics," says Gary Hamilton, managing director, Arclight Films and executive producer of the film. "We're confident this controversial, brilliant film will be high on everyone¹s list come awards season."
    In a joint statement, Sony Pictures Classics commented, "At long last this great play has become a fine movie which features some of the
finest acting of the year." 
    "The Merchant of Venice" is written and directed by Michael Radford, produced by Cary Brokaw ("Closer," HBO's "Angels in America," "The 
Player"), Barry Navidi, Michael Cowan, and Jason Piette, and stars Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes and Lynn Collins.
    Sony Pictures Classics Co-President's Michael Barker and Tom Bernard and Dylan Leiner, SVP of Acquisition and Productions, negotiated the
deal for Sony Pictures Classics, and Gary Hamilton, Managing Director, for Arclight Films.
    PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

 

SCENT OF A WOMAN SCREEN TEST

http://williammcnamara.com/    (under videos)

 

(9-22-04) MERCHANT OF VENICE PICTURES / ARTICLES

yahoo news pictures (if this link doesn't work search for al pacino venice festival)

http://www.drammaturgia.it/giornale/spettacoli/cinema/cinema_articoli/0904_merchant.htm 
http://www.cinefestival.it/articolo.asp?key=919  

NEW PAGE

I added a new page for Two for the Money 

 

VOID MOON OFF?

This movie has been taken off the list of upcoming films on Al's imdb page. I don't know if it's still filming without Al, or if it's been put on hold.
(thanks Jamie Spring for this info)

 

(9-21-04) ANGELS' 11 EMMY WINS!

Best Miniseries
Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Al Pacino 
Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Meryl Streep
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Jeffrey Wright
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Mary-Louise Parker
Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Mike Nichols
Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Tony Kushner
(I can't find what the others are for. Technical awards I would guess.)

AN ARTICLE ON THE AWARDS   (It includes a nice picture of Al.)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2002040854_emmy20.html 

 

Angels in America is NOW available on DVD 

It doesn't have any extras, but it does come in a nifty box. 

 

NEW AL LINKS

Jason's Al Pacino Site
kkovinpacino.com  (Al's step-mom Katherine Kovin Pacino's site)

 

Rapper Inspired by Pacino

(thanks NJ for this info)
Shyne Album Inspired By Supermodel Shoes, Pacino Films
http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1490057/20040809/shyne.jhtml?headlines=true 

 

(8-9-04) ANGELS - 21 EMMY NOMINATIONS

Miniseries
Actor, Miniseries or a Movie: Al Pacino
Actress, Miniseries or a Movie: Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or a Movie: Patrick Wilson, Justin Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Jeffrey Wright
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or a Movie: Mary-Louise Parker, "Angels in America," 

for a complete list of the Emmy nominees go to CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/15/emmy.list.ap/ 

More Angel news:  (thanks NJ for this info)
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=pacino&c=news_photos&ei=UTF-8 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5442736 

 

PEOPLE I KNOW NOW OUT ON DVD

You can buy it at amazon.com 

 

MAGAZINE ALERT - BRITISH "IN STYLE"

There is an article on Diane Keaton with a picture of Al with his shirt open and a comment from her. (Paraphrasing here...) Look at him with his shirt open, and me dressed like that [covered up] that tells you a lot."  That's the gist of the quote. I didn't get the mag. It's an old picture from ?90s.  

 

NY TIMES ARTICLE - COLIN FARRELL COMMENTS ABOUT AL

    (thanks Joe Roberts for this info)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/movies/18JAME.html?ex=1090814400&en=1694bcc47febd962&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
    As a computer whiz enlisted by the C.I.A. in "The Recruit" (2003), he more than held his own with Al Pacino, and the impact of his intensity and restraint became clear. Mr. Pacino does not give one of his completely loony, "Scent of a Woman" performances, but he is outsized and mannered, and Mr. Farrell's subtlety provides the ballast the film needs. He was never tempted to try to match the Pacino performance, he said, and he did not consciously "attempt to go the other way, and use what some people would call Al's largeness," countering it with rock-solid realism. But that's what happened.
    "Look, I didn't exactly catch him during the days of `Dog Day' or `Scarface,' " he says. "Not that he worked any less, but there's just an energy in a person's life. I don't know if I'll be as hungry and as willing to put myself through the discomfort that I put myself through at times when I work, in 15 years, in 10 years, in 5."

 

NEW AL SITE LINKS - THE DON  AND   SEREBELLA

http://pacino.irth.net/index.php   (nice fan site)

http://www.serebella.com/directory/Arts/People/P/Pacino,%20Al/    (links page)

 

(7-9-04) ANGELS WINS HUMANITAS PRIZE

`Angels in America,' `Dirty Pretty Things' win Humanitas Prizes, Associated Press

Humanitas Honors Kushner, Seven Others for Screenwriting , Washington Post

 

(7-4-04) HAPPY 4TH OF JULY EVERYONE!!!  

GODFATHER STAR MARLON BRANDO DIES AT THE AGE OF 80

Revolutionary Actor Marlon Brando Dies, By ANTHONY BREZNICAN, The Associated Press
   "I was shocked and deepy saddened at the loss of the greatest acting genius of our time. What will we do without Marlon in this world?" said his "Godfather" co-star Al Pacino, one of the generation of stars influenced by his work. (click on the title to read the whole article)
(thanks Ereksi for this info)

Hollywood farewells a reluctant legend
    Al Pacino, another star from The Godfather said it was "incomprehensible" how good Brando was.
    "He was just a phenomenon. I was acting before I ever saw a Brando picture," Pacino said. "I'm very proud to be able to say that, but I'll be imitating him until the day I die."
(thanks Ereksi for this info)

 

"TWO FOR THE MONEY" - ANOTHER MOVIE IN THE WORKS

Al Pacino & Russo In 'Two For The Money' Talks
    [Mon June 28, 2004 07:33PM]
    Al Pacino and Rene Russo are in talks to join Matthew McConaughey in Morgan Creek's Two for the Money, says the Hollywood Reporter.
    The movie, helmed by D.J. Caruso, sees McConaughey play a star college football player who is at the top of his sport until he blows out his knee during a game, forcing him to choose a new profession. He winds up getting into the sports gambling business only to be recruited by Pacino's character, who runs one of the best sports-booking operations in the country. Russo would play the wife of Pacino's character.
    The project, which is thought to be budgeted at $20 million, starts shooting in August in Vancouver.
    (thanks Ereksi for this info)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417217/ 

(7-2-04)    MAGAZINE ALERT - EMPIRE

Empire magazine (British) has a huge spread on Al's career. Many pages, pictures, quotes etc.

 

NEW MOVIE - 88 MINUTES

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199/
    internet movie database (thanks Jamie Spring and Mark Nixon for this info)

    http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4690     
    (thanks Stefan for this info) 

    http://movieweb.com/news/news.php?id=3796 
    88 minutes: Emmett/Furla Films, a wholly owned subsidiary of Family Room Entertainment Corporation, in conjunction with Avi Lerner's Millennium Films, announced today that they have teamed up to produce and finance 88 MINUTES with AL PACINO set to star in the Picture. James Foley (CONFIDENCE) will direct the picture from a screenplay by Gary Scott Thompson (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and TV's LAS VEGAS). The producers for 88 MINUTES are Avi Lerner, Randall Emmett, George Furla and Gary Scott Thompson. Executive Producers on the Pic will be: Danny Dimbort, Boaz Davidson, Trevor Short, Lawrence Bender and John Baldecchi.
    88 MINUTES focuses on a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI and receives a death threat claiming that he has only has 88 minutes to live. In order to save his own life, he must use all of his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row.
    Production is scheduled to commence in August in Vancouver with a budget of under $30 million. This marks the second picture announced under production, finance and distribution arrangement recently announced by Millennium and Emmett/Furla Films.
    Emmett/Furla Films and Millennium Films recently wrapped production on EDISON in Vancouver. The Pic marked writer/director David Burke's feature film debut. EDISON stars Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake and Kevin Spacey. Al Pacino most recently starred in THE RECRUIT with Colin Farrell. Jamie Foley most recently directed CONFIDENCE for Lions Gate. The picture stared: Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy Garcia and Dustin Hoffman.

 

NEW AL BOOK COMING IN 2005 - MAYBE 

(thanks Barnard T. for this info)
"Richard III" (Actors on Shakespeare S.)  Al Pacino, Colin Nicholson (Editor)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571214053/qid=1088766091/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_11_3/202-4448728-0347844 
Synopsis
The enduring popularity and success of Shakespeare is an international and cross-cultural phenomenon. The aim of the "Actors on Shakespeare" series is to provide an accessible, contemporary commentary to each of the plays via the top-class actors who have performed them. As creator, director and star of "Looking for Richard", Al Pacino's dream of communicating his love of Shakespeare was made real. Here, he transfers his passion to the page and "Richard III", both character and play, re-emerge in a series of illuminating conversations, quotes and asides.

It will be available from Amazon.com (UK store),  June 30, 2005 
This date may change. 

 

ANOTHER AL BIOGRAPHY?

"Scarface": A Biography of Al Pacino  

Paperback: 224 pages (June 9, 2000) 
Publisher: Newleaf 
ISBN: 0752271857 
Category(ies): Music, Stage & Screen
Availability: usually dispatched within 4 to 6 weeks. Please note that titles occasionally go out of print or publishers run out of stock.

I found this on the same UK Amazon site. I've never read it though.

 

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