Pacino
Britishnoun
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One of Oseguera’s brothers, Antonio, known as Tony Montana after the Al Pacino character in the movie “Scarface,” was in charge of acquiring heavy weapons, according to a recent report by the Mexican Attorney General’s office.
He said through the years that was because the film’s star, Al Pacino, was to be paid five times as much as he was.
If Pacino had only made two to three times as much, he told Bob Costas, “that would be acceptable, but not ideal.”
Of course, retweeting photos of attractive male celebrities doesn’t mean you’re attracted to men in real life — I have saved more fan edits of Al Pacino and Michael B. Jordan than I’d like to admit.
From Salon
Van Sant sees the parallels between Kiritsis and “Dog Day Afternoon’s” populist bank robber Sonny Wortzik — heck, he’s even stunt-cast Pacino as the fat-cat financier — but the film doesn’t appear to have the budget to examine how Kiritsis’ anger fires up the cash-strapped masses.
From Los Angeles Times
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