The method actor traces his path to success, spending as much time on the films that flopped as the greatest hits
l Pacino, whose nickname “Sonny Boy” comes from the Al Jolson song of that title, begins this fine memoir in 1943 when he is three and his mother, Rose, a pretty, sensitive factory worker, starts smuggling him into the local picture house. Together they drink in the stories unspooling from the silver screen, doubly delicious since their own lives are so bleak.
Pacino learns his trade in off-off-off Broadway, sometimes earning a favourable mention, but just as often a stinker It gets better, it gets worse. Sonny rooms with Martin Sheen, another juvenile who clearly has the hand of God upon him. He learns his trade on off-off-off Broadway, sometimes earning a favourable mention, but just as often a stinker along the lines of “avoid Al Pacino…he’s the one thing that drags this play down”. What the reader is waiting for, of course, is the moment in 1972 when Francis Ford Coppola plucks him out of the ranks to co-star in The Godfather.
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