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...spreading as quickly on the West Coast as gypsy moths on the East. The ever-vulnerable Dustin Hoffman fell first, but after a while the infection gained enough strength to attack more formidable opponents, like Henry Fonda and Albert Finney. The latest victim: tough guy-turned-Pop, Al Pacino. Michael Corleone is now coddling children instead of pistols...
...time slot, Night of 100 Stars will be sent out over the air waves on March 8 with a scenario jerry-built by 100 Stars Writer-Producer Hildy Parks, who with Husband Alexander Cohen conspires yearly to mount TV's Tony Awards show. Viewers delirious to watch Al Pacino, Leonard Nimoy and 34 others don white tie, topper and tails and kick a leg with the Rockettes will have to see them through the eyes of a young Rockette, sidelined by a twisted ankle, as she is comforted by an aged stagehand while the show goes...
...Actors Studio who redirected both the training of actors and theatrical performance in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York City. Over five decades, the Polish-born Strasberg, a discerning but caustic pedagogue, helped shape such future stars as Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, John Garfield, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Eli Wallach, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Strasberg's technique, the so-called Method, was inspired by a system developed by the Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky. Through the use of physical and emotional exercises, Strasberg taught his pupils to forgo external acting tricks and "internalize" roles, drawing...
...lesser celebrity here, thank God," Berger says. "Al Pacino moved into town. So did Ellen Burstyn. An actress came to look at our rented house. I'm so out of it, I didn't know who Jessica Lange...
Lumet has often been able to elicit electrifying performances from his lead actors, and here Treat Williams joins the likes of Al Pacino in Serpico and Peter Finch in Network. But Lumet is just as skilled at finding, among little-known or even unprofessional actors, those faces that taken together compose a vision-grotesque, but never inhuman-of the urban landscape...