Al Pacino revealed in his new memoir that he donated his paycheck from the 1980 movie Cruising because he felt the film proved to be "exploitative" of the LGBTQ+ community. Pacino, who was 39 at the ...
Al Pacino admits that his 1980 crime movie “Cruising” was “exploitative” — but “didn’t see it as that when I was doing it.” The William Friedkin thriller about a serial killer targeting gay men on the ...
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 ...
The controversy around Al Pacino’s film Cruising led the actor to donate his earnings to charity. While the 1980 thriller has become something of a cult classic, as Pacino writes in his recently ...
Al Pacino, 84, has an autobiography out entitled, Sonny Boy: A Memoir. As we’ve previously reported, Pacino’s career is littered with roles of particular interest to LGBTQ+ moviegoers. One of these ...
Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. In 1980, the director of The Exorcist and the star of The ...
Pacino infamously had a contentious dynamic with the late auteur, who died in 2023. “I didn’t even see ‘The Exorcist’ in my life,” Pacino said, adding, “It’s a great film, I hear. I should see it. I ...