Pacino

Saw "An Evening with Al Pacino" at Niagara Fallsview casino on Friday. It was a pretty awesome time. Al was pretty much as you'd expect Al to be: charismatic, funny, loud. He rambled a bit but I didn't mind. The interviewer kinda sucked he kept saying "what do you want to talk about"? Great question interview guy, especially since you did this the night before. Al did give us some pearls of wisdom (to paraphrase):

You have to surround yourself with good people, you make four or five bad movies it could kill your career. You have to have people you can rely on to help you make good choices. But more than that, in life - no matter what you do - you could be an artist, painter, office worker, but you have to surround yourself with good people to do good work.

He had a fantastic story about Scent of a Woman, about where he got WooHaa from. He also talked about the fact that Francis Ford Coppola was only 30 when he directed The Godfather. Al recalled turning down the role of Lenny Bruce in "Lenny", and when he decided he wanted to do it he went back to get it but Dustin Hoffman already had it. I totally have to check that movie out.

-Rusty