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YOU TALKIN' TO ME? LA Times staff writer Patrick Goldstein on film legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro: "The two icons of '70s New Hollywood, heroes to a generation of young actors and filmmakers, have become parodies of themselves … they're grumpy old men, relegated to raking in loot from cartoonish comedy and generic thrillers."
Francis Ford Coppola, in the new issue of GQ:
"I met both [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro when they were really on the come," Coppola tells GQ's Nate Penn. "They were young and insecure. Now Pacino is very rich, maybe because he never spends any money; he just puts it in his mattress. De Niro was deeply inspired by (Coppola's studio American) Zoetrope and created an empire and is wealthy and powerful.
"I don't know what [either] of them want anymore. I don't know that they want the same things. Pacino always wanted to do theater … (He) will say, 'Oh, I was raised next to a furnace in New York, and I'm never going to go to L.A.,' but they all live off the fat of the land."
This coming from the owner of a vineyard and two Central American resorts, but misery, company, that whole deal.
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After a career of Dog Day Afternoons and Carlito's Ways you're allowed to do fun fluff like Ocean's 13, and you're most certainly allowed a haphazard shave that leaves behind dozens of stray grays. Even donning a damn fine suit, though always appreciated, is unnecessary. The only thing people can reasonably expect out of you these days is a performance of muted eccentricity and gesturing, punctuated with some abrupt yelling. Aside from that, all bets are off. You've earned it.
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