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Al Pacino Donated 'Cruising' Pay To Charity
Al Pacino Donated ‘Cruising' Pay To Charity After Film Felt "Exploitative" To LGBTQ Community
Nearly 45 years ago, Al Pacino knew his controversial 1980 film Cruising wouldn’t age well. In his new memoir Sonny Boy, the Oscar winner admitted he found the movie “exploitative” to the LGBTQ community upon its release,
Al Pacino never took paycheck for controversial ‘Cruising’ film, donated anonymously to charity
I didn’t want to make it a p.r. stunt,” he explained. “I just wanted one positive thing to come out of that whole experience.”
Al Pacino Secretly Donated the Paycheck From His Most Controversial Film
Al Pacino admits in his new memoir Sonny Boy (via Page Six) that he didn’t take a paycheck for his most controversial film. William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) starred Pacino as a New York cop who goes undercover in the city’s gay leather scene to catch a serial killer preying upon the subculture.
Al Pacino Recalled Seeing Protestors “Almost Every Day” While Shooting His Film “Cruising” And Detailed The Moment He Realized It Was “Exploitative” Of The Gay Community
Released in 1980, Cruising starred then-39-year-old Al as a police officer who went undercover at underground gay bars in New York to catch a serial killer suspected of killing gay men. It was directed by William Friedkin,
Al Pacino thought 'Cruising' was 'exploitative' of LGBTQ+ people, so he donated his paycheck
The actor revealed in his recent memoir, Sonny Boy, that he was so uncomfortable with how the final cut of the movie portrayed LGBTQ+ people that he ended up anonymously donating his entire paycheck to various charities.
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Al Pacino's 'disastrous' first film role left him feeling depressed: 'I don't want to do this with my life'
Pacino remembers having "absolutely no understanding of what the f--- I was talking about" on the "Me, Natalie" set.
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Al Pacino's 10 best and 10 worst movies, according to critics
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Al Pacino will forever be ‘haunted’ by injury to his penis: ‘Such pain that I could hardly walk home’
Despite the life-altering experience, the “Dog Day Afternoon” alum finds solace in having his children, Julie, 34, ...
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Al Pacino's First Movie Role Left Him Doubting Career As An Actor: "Is This How They Make Movies? I Don't Want To Do This With My Life"
That’s it. That was Pacino’s first moment on the silver screen — impressive yet confounding, both for the audience and the actor himself. Though he made the most of the small role, he wanted, and in ...
Yahoo
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Al Pacino Credits Hip-Hop With Making ‘Scarface’ a Hit: ‘They Understood It. They Embraced It.’
Plus, we’re on the records, these rappers. And then it just carried and it kept going and going.” Directed by Brian De Palma, ...
IndieWire
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Al Pacino Credits ‘Hip-Hop’ and ‘Rappers’ with Elevating ‘Scarface’ in Popular Culture
The Brian De Palma film celebrated its 40th anniversary last year and recently screened at Beyond Fest with
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We're not sure Al Pacino understands how famous he actually is
Al Pacino has a new memoir out, Sonny Boy, exploring his legendary acting career. We haven’t picked our copy up yet, but we ...
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Al Pacino's Favorite Robert De Niro Movie Might Surprise You — and It's a Brilliant Pick
While De Niro and Pacino had technically appeared in the same film together when they co-starred in The Godfather: Part II, ...
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Martin Sheen Asked Al Pacino to Play Role After Illness—'Way Over My Head'
But Pacino has revealed that when he was a young aspiring actor, he got an unexpected push into the limelight when his friend ...
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Al Pacino left “The Godfather” premiere before the film started and waited 50 more years to watch it
Michael Corleone himself may have been one of the last people to actually see "The Godfather." Al Pacino is not the type of ...
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