[5]:10 The following year, his maternal grandfather also died. . After Pacino got the Godfather role (for which he was paid a flat fee of thirty-five thousand dollars), he walked from his apartment, on Ninetieth Street and Broadway, to the Village and back, thinking about how hed play it. . As Pacino was putting on his bowling shoes, a Lucky Strike staffer approached. Or we werent regarded. He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). [36], During the 1970s, Pacino had four Oscar nominations for Best Actor, for his performances in Serpico, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, and And Justice for All. That scene right after his innocent clients suicide, when he finally loses his shit and goes, I CANT APPEAL IT, HES DEAD! During the flight, he talked about another kind of blessing hed felt that day. Sola pulled him away toward the party. Lee Strasberg hasn't been given the credit he deserves Next to Charlie, it sort of launched me. Mike will do it. [18], On February 25, 1969, Pacino made his Broadway debut in Don Petersen's Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Tonight, the fans approached him solemnly, like communicants, uncertain how to arrange themselves beside their icon. Pacinos legend is based on the films of his youth, for which he drew on his anger, his sexuality, his energy. Not to be licensed for fine art prints or consumer products. Lee was cast in the lead negative role of Hyman Roth. I said, Let both actors audition. Pacino was furious with Horovitz for putting him in this position; since he didnt belong to Actors Equity, he was forced to attend an open call. He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York. I was now an actor, he said. [69], Pacino starred as Shylock in Michael Radford's 2004 film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice. $120 million. Pacino played third base for the Police Athletic League team, the Red Wings, which became a quasi street gang, with Al as its de-facto leader. He could do it tomorrow, when he comes in. Tyrone Power and Charles Laughton were into scat As in poop play, not the form of jazz singing. In recent years, he has painted brilliant, eerie film portraits of such obsessives as the euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian, in Barry Levinsons HBO movie You Dont Know Jack, and the eponymous swami of rock and roll, in David Mamets HBO film Phil Spector. Pacino regrets that many of his Hollywood movies of the past decade (Righteous Kill, The Son of No One, 88 Minutes, Jack and Jill) have been business chores, taken on for primarily financial reasons. He paid a few memorable visits, twice going to see his son perform in high-school plays, but Pacino saw very little of him, even after he had become a star. "The Actors Studio meant so much to me in my life. It was a great gift.. He played Mark Antony, in a disastrous Julius Caesar at the Public, a role he could never find his way into. Nonetheless, the buses stop, the guides burble, and the tourists crane for a sign of the actor or his children. Im not gonna go there. He also turned down Star Wars, Die Hard, and Pretty Woman.) But perhaps the most satisfying response came from Puzo, who wrote, It was, in my eyes, a perfect performance, a work of art. I dont know now bullshitting comes more natural to me.. What he was doing was finding a character in life, Horovitz told me. I wasnt out of control, but I was close, he said. A method actor, he studied at HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg. Im, like, this is the abyss. He's spent more than 50 years as an actor and is the face for many legendary movies including The Godfather, Scent of a Woman, Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, Dick Tracy, and The Irishman. Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. He appeared in Dennis McIntyres National Anthem at the Long Wharf Theatre, in New Haven. [15] Martin Bregman saw the play and became Pacino's manager, a partnership that became fruitful in the years to come, as Bregman encouraged Pacino to do The Godfather, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon. Above all, Pacino had to be in the film, he said. One woman planted a kiss on Pacinos cheek, then placed a lily and a rose in his lap. Getting fucked!; You wanna play rough? HALF HOUR AFTER THEY PUT HIM IN THE LOCKUP, HE HANGED HIMSELF!, made me bawl like a baby. We were talking and, all of a sudden, I could sense that Kevorkian was coming alive, he said, adding, Once he latches on, then hes off to the races. At the finale of You Dont Know Jack, after Kevorkian has unsuccessfully defended himself in court, the judge looks at him and asks if he wants to take the stand. [44] Later in the year he followed this up in a return to one of his most famous characters, Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (1990). He has twins, son Anton James and daughter Olivia Rose (born January 25, 2001), with actress Beverly D'Angelo, with whom he had a relationship from 1997 until 2003. He just couldnt do it, Horovitz recalled. I started there, in that park and that town. The park was still the park. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. She would have been a really good Laura, also a good Amanda. After he finished, he said, Berghof got up there and started to put me down. His other Oscar-nominated roles include The Godfather (1972), Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and And Justice for All (1979), Dick Tracy (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and The Irishman (2019). He sat down on the sofa. Pacino produced prologues and epilogues for the discs containing the films. Thanks to all the honors, you would think Pacino is worth a decent amount, but he is actually worth way more than most of us know. We were friends. Once that starts, its over, she said. I was always sort of building stories, creating stories, he said. Underneath, I wrote Super. And there wasnt a girl that went into that apartment that I didnt go after!, Afterward, at the meet-and-greet, Pacino sat on a stool in front of a camera for forty-five minutes while premium ticket holders lined up for a photograph. He walked the edges of rooftops and jumped between tenement buildings. Its strictly business; he shouted, Attica! His portrayal of the blind Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992), for instance, was considered hammy by some, but, in Pacinos thinking, the character was a lunatica suicidal, narcissistic man who drew attention to himself through his affectation of swaggerand he played him that way. I never understood why they were laughing, because I didnt think it was funny, he said. You know me, Im in pictures, he said to the attendant. Sola, who studied law and sociology before switching to acting, is the latest in a long line of strong, smart actresses with whom Pacino has been involvedTuesday Weld, Kathleen Quinlan, and Marthe Keller, among them. The spirit of it was Brechtian, operatic. To play Montana, Pacino drew inspiration from the swagger of the Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran and from Meryl Streeps committed rendering of the traumatized Polish immigrant Sophie, in Sophies Choice. As an actor, Pacino said, youre always looking for that thing thats going on besides the words. In Scarface, he connected with Montanas raging ambition and the rebelliousness in his epigrammatic lines: All I have in the world is my balls and my word, and I dont break them for no one; You know what capitalism is? I felt lost., On Pacinos living-room mantelpiece is a small moody photograph of him in profile in his early twenties, in an Off-Off Broadway production of August Strindbergs play Creditors. The image marks the seminal moment, he said, when I knew that nothing mattered except that I became at one with the play. Creditors, a tragicomedy about a credulous young artist whose mind is poisoned against his wife by her bilious ex-husband, was directed by Charlie Laughton, an actor turned acting teacher at the Herbert Berghof Studio, whom Pacino first met in a Village bar when he was seventeen. She reminded me of a Tennessee Williams character. image source. This year, Pacino will turn 74. In the twenty years following the release of The Godfather, Pacino made seventeen films and was nominated for an Academy Award six times. Eventually, she became addicted to barbiturates, which may have been the cause of her death, at forty-three, in 1962. Egyike volt a legismertebb filmcsillagoknak az 1940-es vektl az 1960-as vekig. [48] Pacino starred in Michael Mann's Heat (1995), in which he and Robert De Niro appeared on-screen together for the first time (though both Pacino and De Niro starred in The Godfather Part II, they did not share any scenes). At one point, Olivia came in to ask a favor: Olivia: Daddy, I really want to see the boy next door. It was a whirlwind. Pacino disappeared into work, and, after hours, into a bottle. They must have found the curtain call as engaging as the performance., Acting, according to Pacino, is about getting into a state that brings about freedom and expression and the unconscious. Mamet compares Pacinos excavations of his characters to the way Louis Armstrong played jazz: Hes incapable of doing it the same way twice. While Pacino was shooting his last scene for the movie Devils Advocate (1997), in which he played Satan, for instance, he suddenly broke off from the script to launch into a rendition of It Happened in Monterey. Its just absolutely out there, surreal and brilliant, the actress Helen Mirren, whose husband, Taylor Hackford, directed the film, said. This definitive melting pot is what I came from. I feel like an outsider who got on the inside, so Im inside out, if you know what I mean. The director, Brian De Palma, designed Scarface as a kind of hyperbolic pageant. Most of Pacinos house has been ceded to his kids. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. He is all brooding menace and crocodile grimace, butchering his way to the top with unnervingly sinister glee. [5]:xix In this period, he was often unemployed and homeless, and sometimes slept on the street, in theaters, or at friends' houses. Theres a dark comedic trail to the piece. The film was undertaken with a freewheeling spirit. [66][67] The Recruit, released in 2003, featured Pacino as a CIA recruiter and co-stars Colin Farrell. (Wilde Salom will be released in tandem with a film of the play itself.) After the first few readings of the script for You Dont Know Jack, Levinson recalls wondering when Kevorkian will show up. I remember we were in wardrobe. Fate. In those knockabout years, he added, I dealt with whatever was bothering me through reading. He was also hired to work in the mailroom of Commentary magazine. Over a career that has lasted for five decades, he has won an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. The language of great writing frees you of yourself.. He used to go to 174th Street and pretend he was a blind child. Pacinos bravado and good looks got him noticed. However, his early work was not financially rewarding. Alfredo James Pacino- Al Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. The circumstance of the play was bringing him to a deep place of pain. Its been so long since Ive seen him. He has displayed a remarkable fidelity to old friends, such as Charles Laughton, a New York acting teacher (unrelated . Other notable films include The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Author! The novel tells the story of a depressed, aging actor whose talent is slipping away and who tries to rejuvenate himself through an affair with a younger woman (who in the movie is played by Greta Gerwig). He is an actor, first and foremost, and to lose himself in roles is his respite. [5]:xix He attended Herman Ridder Junior High School,[10] but soon dropped out of most of his classes except for English. Pacino's production company, for which Mr. Laughton is a consultant, is called Chal Productions, for Charlie and Al. Sleepless in Seattle and Serendipity - Love. He subsequently attended the High School of Performing Arts,[11] after gaining admission by audition. The film received mixed reviews, although Pacino later said he enjoyed playing the part. Pacino had been spooked in that way before, in his Off-Off Broadway dbut, in a production of William Saroyans Hello Out There, which grew out of Laughtons classes. Its gonna be O.K. As it happened, Pacino arrived late and missed the audition. No wall decor use without prior contributor consent. [8] For this performance, Pacino won his third Golden Globe, for Best Performance by an Actor, in 2004. [8] It was directed by Sidney Lumet, who had directed him in Serpico a few years earlier, and Pacino was again nominated for Best Actor. So, as we were bowing, I looked over to the space where I believed the look was coming from and there it was, two seeing-eye dogs still looking at me. He usually comes over by the weekend. [25][26] The performance also garnered him a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Play. It was a way of filling up the loneliness., Storytelling ran in the family. My friend Charlie Laughton saw the film and said to me, "Al, do you know what it is like? [57] Shot almost exclusively as a one-on-one conversation between two main characters, the project took nearly three years to complete and was funded entirely by Pacino. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. Get over here, you stinking Guinea! Pacino said. [20] The men were inspired to invest by their connection with Lee Strasberg, as Strasberg's daughter-in-law Sabra Jones was the founder and Producing Artistic Director of The Mirror. A slick eight-minute montage of clips from Pacinos movies opened the evening. [105][106], Pacino had a relationship with his The Godfather Trilogy co-star Diane Keaton. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for AFI) Embed. On the day of his first screen test, however, Pacino was hung over: he didnt know his lines, and he ad-libbed the scene. Youre out because you put yourself out. [5]:xix The Actors Studio is a membership organization of professional actors, theater directors, and playwrights in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Where was I? Pacino kemudian bergabung dengan Herbert Berghof Studio , di mana ia bertemu dengan guru akting Charlie Laughton, yang menjadi mentor dan teman terbaiknya. The piece goes on to say how uncomfortable Pacino is with being a movie-star, and for every movie that brings him fame, he feels obligated to swerve away from mainstream films in order to direct sweetly eccentric docudramas about Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde. The characters he has played in the 2000s, with the exception of one or two, have largely been self-parodies. That I needed a dad. When Pacinos junior-high-school drama teacher, Blanche Rothstein, climbed the five flights of stairs to talk to his grandmother about his acting skills, it was, he said, the first time I ever had encouragement. He went on, The world we came from, the encouragement just wasnt there. Laughton talked him through it. . For two yearstwo yearsnothing, Sola said. He was eventually accepted into HB Studio where the teacher Charlie Laughton took Al under his wing . Jimmy Caan had done it ten times better. Puzo went over to Coppola. . Al Pacino abimizin Chal Productions adnda bir prodksiyon irketi var. Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg trained Pacino at the HB Studios and Actor Studio as a method actor. [34] In 1974, Pacino reprised his role as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II, which was the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar; Pacino was nominated a third time for an Oscar, this second nomination for the Corleone role being in the lead category. When a friend met my dad, he looked at him and said, There it is with you, Al. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images). The barricade finally lifted. He assumes their identity so completely that he continues to live a role long after a play or movie is over. Once, when Pacino was playing Richard III in Boston, Jacqueline Kennedy came backstage to greet him. I like it.. [78] Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave Righteous Kill one star out of four, saying: "Al Pacino and Robert De Niro collect bloated paychecks with intent to bore in Righteous Kill, a slow-moving, ridiculous police thriller that would have been shipped straight to the remainder bin at Blockbuster if it starred anyone else. Author! Stage acting, he likes to say, quoting the aerialist Karl Wallenda, is life on the wirethe rest is just waiting. Onstage, in the zone, he told me, youre up in the sky with the theatre godslove it, love it, love it. As a list of some of Pacinos more esoteric stage work demonstratesEugene ONeills Hughie, Bertolt Brechts The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Shakespeares Richard III and The Merchant of Venicethe theatre is where he goes to challenge himself and to think. The very final shotin The Godfather, when he lies very unequivocally to Diane Keaton, before the door shuts with him officially taking up his fathers place still brings chills to my spine. But his mothers death, when he was twenty-one, sent him into a tailspin. What do you think youre doing? he remembers her saying. People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether. Sola had persuaded Pacino to accompany her to a friends birthday bowling party the next day. I remember feeling a focus I never experienced beforeintense, so riveting that I directed my performance to that space, he said. Al Pacino and Charlie Laughton during After Performance of "A Moon of the Misbegotten" - January 2, 1974 at Scandia Restaurant in New York City, New York, United States. Roll up our sleeves and go to work., Pacinos agent, John Burnham, told me, In his halcyon days he made around fourteen million a picture, but the industrys changed. It felt like I was back on the block, back home, he said. Debut. HES DEAD! His friends and family prevent him from getting lost in those roles, and he is intelligent enough to be able to channel personal emotions for dialogues, without making an absolute getaway into his past. Pacino is the director yelling at the crew to hurry up; hes the lubricious Herod eying his gorgeous daughter; hes the interviewer prodding Tom Stoppard, Tony Kushner, Gore Vidal, and Bono to talk about Wilde; hes the professor offering tidbits of Wildeana; and hes the anthropologist trudging through the desert with kaffiyeh and camel. Its my dreamI dont know how to get to it yet, but Ill give it another year. Still, he said, Im fine not having anonymity. Its a denser narrative, and the set-pieces especially the initial nightclub sequence (which reminded me of the Goodfellas tracking shot) and the climactic escalator-shootout are sheer genius. What does a kid who was thirteen, fourteen know about Stanislavsky? he said. I had an identity.. I believe I have not reached my stride, which is why I persist, he told me in an e-mail. The performance earned Pacino his second Emmy Award[80] for lead actor[81] and his fourth Golden Globe award. Pacino was lauded by critics for his wide range of acting abilities, and nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for a fourth time. Or outside in, he said. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. You think youre on the A-list, but youre not. In Boston, he was at the Wang Theatre, a fun palace built to hold thirty-seven hundred customers, who were shelling out up to a hundred and seventy-nine dollars a seatplus an extra three hundred if they wanted to attend a meet-and-greet after the show. A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino's film debut came at the age of 29 with a minor role in Me, Natalie (1969). [28] He starred on Broadway in China Doll, a play written for him by Mamet, which opened on December 5, 2015, and closed on January 21, 2016, after 97 performances. Imagine putting on bowling shoes, he saidPacino got behind the wheel of his white Range Rover and headed for Lucky Strike, in Hollywood, which turned out to be more of a bowling den than an alley. [38] The film did well at the box office, grossing over US$45million domestically. [93] The tribute included remarks by his former costars Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Bobby Cannavale and Chris O'Donnell. That's been the kind of ethos, the way in which theater's perceived, unfortunately. Pacino: Does he really? Part of Pacinos fervor for Wilde comes from a desire to claim the writers intelligence and eloquence. 9.Aunque el Actors Studio lo rechaz, uno de sus maestros en el Herbert Berghof Studio, Charlie Laughton, se convertira en su . There he settled, he said, into something that was wonderful with Diane and my life. Scarface came out to mixed reviews, and was followed by Revolution (1985), in which Pacino played a Scottish fur trapper with a Bronx accent, who gets embroiled in the Revolutionary War. Pacino describes himself as a method actor and credits his acting techniques to his time at the Actors Studio in New York. The film represents Pacinos eight-year attempt to inhale Oscar Wilde by chronicling the mounting of a 2006 Los Angeles production of Wildes 1891 tragedy, in which he was Herod to Jessica Chastains Salom. Another woman, in formal evening gloves and a gray dress, who positioned herself in front of Pacino to speak to him, told me later that she had devoted her life to theatre after seeing Pacino act in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, on her twenty-first birthday, thirty-nine years before. Despite the familys meagre income, Rose scraped together enough to pay for visits to a psychiatrist. Victims of prejudice in The Merchant of Venice and On the Levee.. PACINO: Yes. Broadway. The actor loves the opera. During this time, Al Pacino was encouraged and supported by his mentor and best friend, Charlie Laughton. They never were. But, of all his performances in those years, the sleeper was his embodiment of the garish, vulgar, sensationally violent Tony Montana, an impoverished Cuban refugee who becomes the most powerful drug trafficker in Miami, in Scarface. The role was dismissed as macho primitivism at the time, but, over the years, it has emerged as a challenger to Michael Corleone as Pacinos most popular creation. Its the missing link, so to speak, he said. After growing up in East Harlem and the Bronx, Pacino moved at age 19 to Greenwich Village, where he studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio and appeared in many Off-Broadway and out-of-town productions, including Hello, Out There . [58][108] Pacino had a ten-year relationship with Argentine actress Lucila Polak from 2008 to 2018. We wanted to flesh that out a little bit more, to apply some of the things that Als gone through in his life, and, hopefully, not in a super-serious fashion. I have to say, she was right., Sea of Love (1989), the story of a cop in a midlife crisis who falls for a woman who may be the killer hes pursuing, made a star of Ellen Barkin and restored Pacinos box-office clout. At the exit, he struggled again, this time to fit his new ticket correctly into the machine. You! That action satisfies. His favorite place was the Dutchies, a swampy labyrinth on the Bronx River, where truant kids hid in high marsh grasses. O.K. I could feel connected to myself, just like when I sat there fifty years ago. You know, sometimes you look into the abyss? Pacino said. It was Pacino's first journey to Italy; he later recalled that "performing for an Italian audience was a marvelous experience". Im a part of their life. The day I turn to you and say, John, what I just did in this role was a real winner, I hope youll have the courage and decency to throw a wreath around my head, and then so very quietly and compassionately shoot me.. [110], Pacino has won and been nominated for many awards during his acting career, including nine Oscar nominations (winning one), 18 Golden Globe nominations (winning four), five BAFTA nominations (winning one), two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television, and two Tony Awards for his stage work. Al Pacino becomes them, Lee Strasberg, the longtime director of the Actors Studio, said. In the next five years, he made Dick Tracy, The Godfather, Part III, Frankie and Johnny, Glengarry Glen Ross, Scent of a Woman, Carlitos Way, and Heat., As Pacino paced his living room, a tall, striking woman with long auburn hair swept in, draped an arm over his shoulders, and pulled him to her, like a swan taking a cygnet under its wing. [6], His role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971) brought Pacino to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him as Michael Corleone in what became a blockbuster Mafia film, The Godfather (1972). I roused so many things in myself., Pacinos allegiance to the stage, his compulsion to connect with a live audience, is due, perhaps, to a need to re-create his relationship with the person he calls his first and indeed my best audience, his mother, Rose. So I am allowed to take any considerations I want into account, relevant or irrelevant. Thats not how I come upon a role. [8], Pacino's career slumped in the early 1980s; his appearances in the controversial Cruising, a film that provoked protests from New York's gay community,[37] and the comedy-drama Author! Hes there, but hes not there. al pacino charles laughton al pacino laughing al pacino laugh What are you doing here? Pacino recalled him shouting. When it was Pacinos turn, he came out singing, then crossed to downstage center and looked directly at the producer: Startled and terrified, according to Horovitz, she agreed to cast Pacino. [7][9], In his teenage years, Pacino was known as "Sonny" to his friends. Kids make videos today, but it was kind of an unusual thing then to get street urchins to join you in acting out comics. [43], Pacino received an Academy Award nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in the box office hit Dick Tracy in 1990, of which critic Roger Ebert described Pacino as "the scene-stealer". Pacino had broken through. Critcs praised him for bringing compassion and depth to a character traditionally played as a villainous caricature. He can certainly roar; he can pound the furniture; he can go big with the facial expressions; he has made some dud movies. I think it was a mischievousness, a subversiveness. Pacino relates to Wilde as an outsider. I said no, absolutely no. [57] Chinese Coffee was included with Pacino's two other rare films he was involved in producing, The Local Stigmatic and Looking for Richard, on a special DVD box set titled Pacino: An Actor's Vision, which was released in 2007. Sablon Wikidata Segtsg. He was accepted into the prestigious Herbert Berghof Studio in New York City, and he took his first steps towards his mastery of method acting. Francis, youre making him crazy. He played a wide range of classical and modern roles, making an impact in Shakespeare at . It was directly responsible for getting me to quit all those jobs and just stay acting. [29] The previews were done in October 2015. I was so into it that night that I continued to be the King. On audition day, she brought in the actor she wanted: blond, blue-eyed, tall, untalented, Horovitz wrote in a memoir. I was 26, 25 he discovered me and became my manager. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. To disarm bullies and find friends, Pacino used the same strategy on the street that hed used at home: he performed and enlisted others to perform with him, earning the nickname the Actor. Wed act out parts from joke books and comic books, he told me. His next movie, Cruising (1980), William Friedkins thriller about a serial killer who targets gay menwhich sparked protests in the gay communitywas a terrible experience for Pacino as well as for the critics. Its a riveting flick and a DePalma masterclass, but it was criticized heavily upon its release. Al Pacino en 'El Padrino II', 'Esencia de mujer' y 'Serpico' LVD. In warm weather, Pacinos grandfather, with whom Pacino had what he calls one of the great relationships of my life, would sit with him on the tar roof of their tenement and spin tales about his rough Dickensian youth in turn-of-the-century New York. Im a slow learner, he said. I felt lonely, but I always feel that way. As he ate, the standup comedian Bill* Bellamy, who is credited with coining the phrase booty call, appeared. It closed after 39 performances on March 29, 1969, but Pacino received rave reviews and won the Tony Award on April 20, 1969. I kept trying to figure out what I could do to make them mine. Early in his career, after a breakthrough performance in Israel Horovitzs 1968 play The Indian Wants the Bronx, Pacino appeared on The Merv Griffin Show, and, in front of a television audience of millions, he froze.