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...When I sat down to host the show, playing with all the dials until I realized the producer had wisely taken away all my powers, I was startled by the intro. It was a quote from Al Pacino in The Recruit - which not only scared me but also impressed me with the willingness of Gallagher's research department to sit through the film. Pacino yells, "We believe in good and evil. And we choose good. We believe in right and wrong. And we choose right. Our cause is just. Our enemies everywhere. They're all around us." That's when...
...AIDS, and his lover Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), who abandons Prior, unable to cope with his illness; and Joe and Harper Pitt (Patrick Wilson and Mary-Louise Parker), a closeted gay Mormon lawyer and his disturbed, pill-popping wife. Around them orbit historical and mythological figures: Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), the diabolical former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy who is gay, closeted and stricken with AIDS; the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), whom Cohn, by pulling strings, got executed for treason; and an angel (Emma Thompson)--the spiritual avatar of America. When she smashes through the ceiling of Prior...
...were a sacred bedtime story. The tough cop he played in the 1997 L.A. Confidential is another soft-spoken type: in lieu of shouting, he tattoos his fist on a suspect's face, grabs a man's genitals. Never does he strut or preen or pace nervously, Pacino-style. There's no spillage of energy. The Sea of Crowe has a surface calm; rancor roils a few fathoms below...
...elusive Yanomamo tribe, and with good reason: he's in a weird, weird place. "Cadets entering West Point step into an irony-free zone," Lipsky writes, "a place where sarcasm has been fought to a standstill." When people say "Huah!" at West Point, they're not doing an Al Pacino impression. "Huah!" is the universal adjective for all things gung-ho and military: a huah cadet would never be caught missing a shave or parking sloppily. A huah cadet would never flunk the regular fitness tests, which include 42 push-ups in two minutes and a two-mile...
...Pacino played his patented wild man mentor, seen previously in films like Scent of a Woman, this time in the incarnation of CIA recruiter Walter Burke...