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Another Italian eatery is preparing to open in the recently closed Anzio Landing restaurant space in Mesa. Pacino's, at Power and McDowell roads, will serve contemporary Italian fare with "a little bit of Hollywood," says owner Frank Spaccarelli. He and his wife, Alicia, have moved to Mesa from California, where they previously opened, operat...

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Giorgio Armani is now taking on Broadway. In his first theatrical collaboration, the designer has provided the clothes for "China Doll," a David Mamet play opening in early December starring Al Pacino. The play is the story of a billionaire Mickey Ross who is ready to walk away from everything with his beautiful young fiancée until one ph...

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Al Pacino is one of the most acclaimed actors in film history. He is most famous for his roles in "The Godfather," "The Godfather II," "Serpico," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Scarface," "Carlito's Way," "Heat" and "Scent of a Woman." He is a winner of an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe awards, the National Medal of Arts and the...

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The Godfather or The Godfather Part II: Which is the superior entry in Francis Ford Coppola's masterful mob trilogy? It's a debate film buffs have been engaged in for 40 years, and one that will probably go on for another 400.   We asked one of the men closest to the Corleone family saga, Al Pacino, if he could make that Sophie's Choice — an...

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Everyone knows that the first regional group among the Italian community in the US is the one from Sicily. The period of mass emigration, the one starting in 1880 and ending more or less in the early 20's of the XXth century, didn't see at the beginning Sicily as the main region of departure. Some Sicilians had previously gone to New Orleans (at th...

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by Paul Whitington   At some point in the early 1990s, or so it seems to me, Al Pacino stopped acting in the sense of disappearing into different characters and began presenting us with various, amplified versions of himself.   Which is not to say that he hasn't given some fine and entertaining performances over the last 20 years or s...

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Al Pacino will be presented with the first Jack Valenti-L.A.-Italia Legend Award at the Los Angeles-Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest, Lina Wertmueller, the honorary chair of the festival's parent organization, announced Monday.Named for the longtime Motion Picture Association of America president, the honor will be given each year to an "outstandi...

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Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman are set to play themselves on holiday around Italy in a film directed by Paul Sorvino called One More Time, their agent said Monday.   Venice, Florence and the Tuscan riviera will be among the places the Hollywood legends will visit, Oscar Generale said on a location-picking missio...

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di Chiara Barbo   A New York City vive la comunità di italoamericani più numerosa degli Stati Uniti: così esordisce la pagina Wikipedia dedicata a "Italian Americans in New York".   Molti di loro, reali o immaginari che siano, abitano gli schermi cinematografici americani di tutti i tempi, a partire da quel leggendario Rudolph Valenti...

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