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Everyone knows about miscreants like Hugh Grant and Pee Wee Herman. But who knew that JANE FONDA was arrested for drug smuggling and assaulting a policeman, AL PACINO for carrying a concealed weapon and SUZANNE SOMERS for (gasp!) writing bad checks? George Seminara did. He also knew that charges were dropped against Fonda, then 32; that Pacino, 20, was briefly incarcerated and let go; and that Somers, 24, paid the cash back and wasn't prosecuted. Seminara collects celebrity mug shots. His book on the subject, Mug Shots, will be out in June. "One day I sat down and thought...
...MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW York, John Pappas (Al Pacino), is a very hugging guy. He comes on with that mixture of bravado, urgency and imposed intimacy that passes for charm in urban politicians. "Noo Yawk Ciddy--this is the place!" he rasps with the naked brio of someone who owns the joint. It's good to be the mayor. And, for Pappas, it's necessary to connect with voters in a physical, almost sexual way. A handshake and a brisk "How'm I doin'?", a la former Mayor Ed Koch, is not enough. Pappas has to bear...
After a few reels, though, things get goofy. Suddenly every room is preposterously dark; the most powerful men in town can't afford decent light bulbs. Pacino's performance turns crazily manic: when he gives an oration for the dead child, his wild hand gestures read like sign language for the myopic. And director Harold Becker should know that no movie is allowed to use You'll Never Walk Alone unless the intent is comic...
Movies: City HallAl Pacino plays fictitious New York Mayor John Pappas as the tornado at the center of "City Hall", a cluttered drama that imagines a Faustian battle between Pappas and his deputy mayor, Kent Calhoun (John Cusack). Because the story was written by Ken Lipper, a deputy mayor in the Koch administration, and snazzed up by a trio of old-pro screenwriters -- Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Schrader, Bo Goldman -- and because it was shot in Gotham?s City Hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. "After a few reels, though, things get goofy," says TIME...
...HEAT Who will be prince of this soulless city--Robert De Niro's fastidious criminal or Al Pacino's emotionally erratic cop? In the end it doesn't much matter. Their job is to lend familiar dramatic tonalities to Michael Mann's brilliant, jarring, amoral expansion of and meditation on the violent themes running through postmodernist life...