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Sonny Boy: The Bronx Kid Behind Al Pacino’s Legend
The Kid from the Tenement Before he was Michael Corleone, before he was Tony Montana screaming into a pile of white powder, before he was Serpico waving a badge at a crooked city — Al Pacino was a poor kid in the South Bronx who talked to himself on the street, imitating movie gangsters he’d…
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The Godfather Nearly Fired Him: How Al Pacino Became Michael Corleone
The Boy Nobody Wanted Picture the spring of 1971. A nervous twenty-nine-year-old director named Francis Ford Coppola is about to begin shooting a gangster picture nobody at Paramount believes in, with a cast nobody at the studio wants. The studio’s top choice for the lead, the quiet war hero who would slowly become a monster,…