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Yellowstone star Cole Hauser, has passed away aged 77 of natural causes, his wife confirmed.Across nearly six decades in the industry, Hauser appeared on the small screen in classics such as Murder She Wrote, The A-Team, and Beverly Hills 90210. His most recent appearances were on crime shows The Mentalist and Criminal Minds.In film, his highest profile role was as a tobacco lawyer in 1999’s The Insider, which starred Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. In 1991 article by Entertainment Weekly, he was described as “the biggest star you never heard of”, do to his prolific appearances in independent films.He is survived by his wife, Cali Lili Hauser, as well as his children Bright and Cole.

Al Pacino has opened up about the original ending to The Godfather Part III that he “loved”.The third part in the classic trilogy was released in 1990, and concludes with Michael Corleone’s (Pacino) daughter Mary (Sofia Coppola) getting killed in an assassination attempt on his life. The film then ends years later with Michael dying of old age.In his recent book Sonny Boy, Pacino revealed the original ending panned out slightly differently, with his character meeting his end in the assassination attempt.“At the film’s conclusion, Michael would get assassinated on the stairs of the church,” he explained.

Al Pacino has revealed that he once nearly kidnapped by a female fan who offered to drive him home when he was “a little drunk”.In his newly released memoir, Sonny Boy, the 84-year-old Oscar winner recalled going out for drinks with Gene Hackman’s brother, Richard Hackman, “somewhere in our cross-­country journey,” when he met a woman who almost caused him to jump out of her car.According to the actor, he “got so drunk that I could not find my way home.” However, “a woman said to me, ‘Oh, I’ll drive you home.’ And without a second thought, I got into her car with her.”He continued: “But as we drove, even in my daze, I could recognise that she was not taking me back to where I was staying. I said to her, ‘What is going on here?’ And she said straight out, ‘I’m kidnapping you.’ ”The actor went on to say that he “was well-known” by that time, having already made The Godfather, and insisted the woman’s behaviour “was not” simply “some aggressive flirtation.”“I am from the South Bronx.

Al Pacino is reflecting on an unpleasant childhood memory. The Oscar winner, 84, detailed an injury at age 10 in his new memoir “Sonny Boy.”Pacino called the incident involving his penis “one of the most embarrassing experiences of my life.”“I seemed to cheat death on a regular basis,” the actor writes in the book’s first chapter, which recounted his upbringing in New York’s South Bronx, per People.

Al Pacino, 84, is fearless onscreen, diving headfirst into portraying sex or violence, but in his recent memoir “Sonny Boy,” the Hollywood legend admitted that he’s not a fan of filming steamy moments. “I’m not usually one to perform graphic lovemaking scenes,” he wrote, “and I don’t think many other actors like to do them either.

“Sonny Boy,” which is out today. The memoir is one of “a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide,” as Pacino goes in-depth to give his great roles, collaborators, and films their full due.

Al Pacino might be one of Hollywood’s all-time most intimidating leading men, but it does not stop his phone case being covered in images of Shrek.The actor, 84, has long been identified with roles playing mob bosses and gangsters, but as revealed in a new interview with the BBC, his mobile phone is actually cased in an altogether more friendly cinematic figure.The phone case was originally picked out by Pacino’s youngest daughter Olivia, 23, and as he confirmed in the interview, the actor decided to keep the ogre with him at all times to please her.When challenged why he had never decided to get into voice acting for animated films such as the 2001 DreamWorks classic, he claimed at first, “I can’t do it, I’ve tried,” before eventually conceding, “I seriously don’t want to”.The Hollywood icon and star of The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon and Scarface released his “astonishingly revelatory” memoir Sonny Boy on October 8.Among the revelations in the book is the admission that he has never touched cocaine in his life, despite believing he has a reputation as an addict.“I’m not the kind of guy to take coke,” he said in a recent interview. “Any upper, I don’t need.

Al Pacino has revealed that studio bosses wanted the likes of Jack Nicholson and Robert Redford to take the lead role in The Godfather ahead of him.The star said in an extract from his new book Sonny Boy (via The Guardian), which came out last week, that Paramount were not interested in him taking the role and the likes of Warren Beatty and Ryan O’Neal were also ahead of him on the list.“Paramount didn’t want me to play Michael Corleone. They wanted Jack Nicholson. They wanted Robert Redford.

Al Pacinocan refuse.The 84-year-old revealed that despite starring in some of the most critically acclaimed films over the past several decades, including “The Godfather” and “Scarface,” he doesn’t take home mementos from filming.“I’ll probably lose them,” Pacino admitted to People in an interview published Saturday. “For a long while, I used to bop from one place to another.

Al Pacino has said he has never taken cocaine in his life, even though “everybody thinks I have”.The Hollywood icon and star of The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon and Scarface releases his “astonishingly revelatory” memoir Sonny Boy today (October 8), which you can order here.He has appeared on the New York Times’ The Daily podcast to talk about the book, in which he explains that, despite believing he has a reputation as a cocaine addict, he has in fact never touched the class A drug.“They’re shocked when they find out I don’t take cocaine,” he said. “I never took it in my life.”Check out the interview below:When asked who these people are who assumed he was taking the drug, he said, “Ah, I have a grapevine over at my house.”“I’m not the kind of guy to take coke,” he continued. “Any upper, I don’t need.

Al Pacino has revealed that he nearly died of COVID-19 in 2020, even temporarily losing a pulse.The legendary actor announced details of his “astonishingly revelatory” memoir Sonny Boy back in March, which is set for release on Tuesday (October 8). Visit here to pre-order the memoir.In an interview with the New York Times ahead of the book’s release, Pacino shared that he had a near-death experience during the pandemic. “What happened was, I felt not good — unusually not good.

Al Pacino is getting candid about a particularly scary moment while suffering from COVID-19. The “Godfather” actor, 84, shared that he had a near-death experience where his heart stopped — and paramedics had to bring him back to life. Pacino told The New York Times in an interview published Saturday that he was “sitting there in my house and I was gone” after falling unconscious while battling the virus, reportedly in 2020.

Johnny Depp was “humbled” to be asked to direct the upcoming biopic Modì, according to the film’s producers.Modì is a dramatisation of the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, and stars Riccardo Scamarcio and Stephen Graham. It is set to receive its world premiere on Tuesday (September 24) at the Sam Sebastian International Film Festival and will be released theatrically on December 5.The film has been written by Jerzy and Mary Kromolowski and was brought to Depp by Al Pacino as far back as 1997, when the two actors were working together on Donnie Brasco.

Scarface alongside Al Pacino, has died.The 68-year-old died on Sunday (August 11) at a friend’s home in Brooklyn, New York. A cause of death has not yet been disclosed, reports Variety.The Cuban-American actor was born in 1956 and started his career in New York, where he worked in comedy clubs after he fled Cuba at a young age.He landed his first role in Brian DePalma’s Scarface in 1983.

Scarface actor Angel Salazar has tragically been found dead in bed at a friend's house, according to reports.The actor's representative and close friend Ann Wingsong reportedly told TMZ that the 68-year-old actor passed away in his sleep while staying at a friend's home in Brooklyn, New York, US, over the weekend. Angel was best known for his role in the iconic gangster film Scarface, where he played the sidekick of Al Pacino's lead character, Tony Montana. On Sunday, Ms Wingsong revealed that his friend discovered his lifeless body when checking on him in the morning.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and Die Hard 2, has died aged 86.The actor died in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles on May 30, as confirmed by his sister-in-law to The Hollywood Reporter.Born in Denver, Colorado on January 3, 1938, Bower’s acting career spanned five decades, with his first on-screen appearance being in two episodes of US detective drama The Rockford Files.He also starred as two separate characters, Rex Barker and Dr. Curtis Willard in the historical drama series The Waltons.His later work on the small screen would include appearances in The X-Files, The West Wing, Criminal Minds and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, in which he played Heinrich “Pop-Pop” Landgraf, the grandfather of Dennis and Dee Reynolds.Bower’s film career saw him appear in multiple successful movies, including Die Hard 2, in which he played the janitor who helps Bruce Willis’ John McClane foil the attempted terrorist attack at the airport.Throughout his career he played several law enforcement figures, for example Sergeant O’Car in his second film, The Dain Curse, Detective Walsh in Split Decisions, Sergeant Cally in Raising Cane and FBI Agent Mullins in 2002’s High Crimes, starring Morgan Freeman.Bower himself left acting for a brief period to work as a private investigator in Boston, working alongside O.J Simpson’s defence attorney and member of the ‘dream team’, F.

Al Pacino has led tributes to The Godfather producer Albert S. Ruddy, who has died aged 94.Ruddy died “peacefully” last Saturday (May 25) at the UCLA Medical Centre in Los Angeles, according to a spokesperson (via Sky News), who added that among his final words were: “The game is over, but we won the game.”Ruddy produced more than 30 films including Million Dollar Baby and The Longest Yard while his TV credits included Hogan’s Heroes and Walker Texas Ranger.Pacino, who played the iconic Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, was one of the first to pay his respects to the late producer.“Al Ruddy was absolutely beautiful to me the whole time on The Godfather; even when they didn’t want me, he wanted me.

Al Pacino is set to play a Mafia boss once again in a new kidnapping thriller.Pacino, who has famously played mob bosses and gangsters in films like The Godfather, The Irishman, and Scarface, will play a real-life mob boss in the film Captivated, which has gone on sale this week at Cannes.As per Deadline, the film will focus on Calabrian mafia boss Saro (played first by Tony Kebbell, and then next, in the present day, by Pacino) who kidnaps the grandson of one of the world’s richest men, Jean Paul Getty. The boss puts his organisation at risk when he falls in love with his victim’s mother (played by Katie Holmes) during ransom negotiations that follow.Michael Mammoliti, one of the producers on the project, is the nephew of Saro Mammoliti, one of the main kidnappers.

coveted Best Picture award at the 2024 Oscars.The “Scarface” actor, who appeared during Sunday’s star-studded ceremony to present the top honor, went about his presenting duties in an unconventional manner.Instead of building the tension and suspense by naming each of the 10 nominees — as every other presenter before him has — the “Godfather” star just blurted out the winning motion picture, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”But according to the actor, 83, the Academy had not asked him to name the other nominees up for the gong.“There seems to be some controversy about my not mentioning every film by name last night before announcing the best picture award,” Pacino told The Post in a statement.“I just want to be clear it was not my intention to omit them, rather a choice by the producers not to have them said again since they were highlighted individually throughout the ceremony. I was honored to be a part of the evening and chose to follow the way they wished for this award to be presented.”“I realize being nominated is a huge milestone in one’s life and to not be fully recognized is offensive and hurtful,” he went on.

Al Pacino has announced details of his “astonishingly revelatory” memoir Sonny Boy which is set for release later this year.The Scarface and The Godfather actor’s book will be published by Penguin Random House and has been described in a press release as the “memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide.” The statement continues, calling the book “an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full.”Sonny Boy will cover the legendary actor’s childhood in New York, his upbringing with his “fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents”, his crew of friends in the Bronx along with the years he spent attending New York’s fabled High School of Performing Arts.The book will also discuss Pacino’s work in New York’s avant garde theater scene in the 60s and 70s before his major movie break with The Panic of Needle Park, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon.Speaking of Sonny Boy in a press release, Pacino shared: “I wrote Sonny Boy to express what I’ve seen and been through in my life. It has been an incredibly personal and revealing experience to reflect on this journey and what acting has allowed me to do and the worlds it has opened up.

presentation of the coveted Best Picture award while appearing on “Live with Kelly and Mark.” “I guess he’s never watched an awards show before,” Kimmel, 56, told Kelly Ripa, 53, and Mark Consuelos, 52, in a clip aired on Monday. “It seems like everyone in America knows the rhythm of how it’s supposed to go, down to ‘And the Oscar goes to…’ but, uh, not Al.”The “Scarface” actor — who was supposed to reunite with his co-star Michelle Pfeiffer until she dropped out last-minute — appeared during Sunday’s star-studded assembly to present the top honor … with his own twist. Instead of building the tension and suspense — as other presenters have before — by naming each of the 10 nominated films, the “Godfather” star just blurted out the victor.“This is the time for the last award of the evening, and it’s my honor to present it.