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In his new memoir, Sonny Boy, Al Pacino looks back on his “moon shot” of a life in Hollywood — and a few acute regrets.
When he emerged in the 1970s alongside the other brooding, intense leading men of the New Hollywood — including Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, and quasi rival turned onscreen soulmate Robert De Niro — Pacino seemed to fit right in. Pacino’s new memoir, Sonny Boy, is a 363-page attempt to make sense of all that, drawing a through-line from the rambunctious kid getting chased by cops across the South Bronx to the octogenarian Hollywood icon dancing down the streets of Beverly Hills. In Scarface, for instance, he pushed for the “Say good night to the bad guy” scene to be filmed as written, in a fancy restaurant (i.e., an expensive additional location), to contrast Tony Montana’s vulgarity against the high society he’ll never be a part of.
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