Recently named White House Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci still makes time for little side projects like producing films featuring award winning actors.
Al Pacino has been cast as former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming Barry Levinson-directed HBO film about the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The longest, loudest standing ovation of the Kennedy Center Honors gala wasn’t reserved for Al Pacino, Mavis Staples or the Eagles. Instead, it went to the man sitting to their left, attending his eighth and most likely his last honors presentation: President Barack Obama.
According to the New York Post, Al Pacino’s new Broadway play China Doll has devolved into a “disaster,” as the veteran actor struggles to remember his lines, despite having access to multiple teleprompters.
Barry Navidi—who produced the Al Pacino vehicles, “The Merchant of Venice,” “Salome,” and “Wild Salome,” and is touring with Pacino’s current one-man show—spoke with Variety in Tehran during the International Urban Cities Film Festival. He asserted his excitement about the rapprochement between the Obama administration and Iran because it will encourage fimmaking in Iran.
Actor Al Pacino is being praised for removing himself from the stage adaptation of a novel written by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, after becoming aware of the author’s support for Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
