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...Hollywood's Golden Age--around the time Al Pacino was born, and Eugene O'Neill was writing his short play Hughie--nearly all movie actors came from the stage. They had voices then, and a glamour that could penetrate both the footlights and the kleig lights. Yet few stars of the '30s and '40s returned to the theater when they and it were in their prime...
...Pacino is almost a commuter between Hollywood and Broadway; he's played in Richard III, Mamet's American Buffalo and Wilde's Salome. Now, in a revival of the 1941 Hughie, he tackles O'Neill. Or better, wrestles with him--for this 55-min. one-acter, which Pacino also directed, is virtually a one-man show. A conversation a lonely man has with himself, it requires that the actor bring theatrical variety to monologue monotony...
...seedy Manhattan hotel lobby in 1928, Hughie is an old-fashioned tale--even the clock on the wall ticks in waltz tempo. And Erie Smith (Pacino) is an old-fashioned gambler, a loser out of Damon Runyon. For Erie, horseplaying is a sacred vocation. "I'd rather sleep in the same stall with old Man o' War," he says, "than make the whole damn Follies." Down on his luck, he has the sour, insistent patter of a guy without dolls, a sharpie gone flat. Tonight he's got nothing better to do than talk to a taciturn desk clerk...
...before anyone files this article under obituary, it should be noted that CAA still represents most of Hollywood's hardest-working filmmakers, including seriously surnamed stars Cruise, Hanks, De Niro, DeVito and Pacino. And the recent turmoil hasn't kept the agency from signing talent like Anthony Hopkins, Nick Nolte and hot newcomer Matthew McConaughey (the upcoming A Time to Kill) while forging multimedia ties with Intel and the creators of an innovative Internet Website known as The Spot...
...MICHELLE PFEIFFER. Clooney plays an Oscar Madison-like newspaper columnist and single father; Pfeiffer is an architect and single mother. They meet and immediately fall in loathe. What do you think will come to pass? In any case, plot turns are one thing, chemistry another. Seasoned superstars--including Al Pacino and Robert Redford--have failed to ignite the screen when paired with the ultracool Pfeiffer. Clooney will at least have this advantage: much of the mating ritual in the movie is conducted via cell phone...