Coordinates	15°48′00″N47°54′00″N
Name	City Hall
Director	Harold Becker
Producer	Harold BeckerKenneth LipperCharles MulvehillEdward R. Pressman
Writer	Kenneth LipperPaul SchraderNicholas PileggiBo Goldman
Starring	Al PacinoJohn CusackBridget FondaDanny AielloRichard SchiffDavid PaymerandMartin Landau
Music	Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography	Michael Seresin
Editing	David BrethertonRobert C. Jones
Distributor	Columbia Pictures
Released	February 16, 1996
Runtime	111 minutes
Country	United States
Budget	$40,000,000
Gross	$33,000,000
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''City Hall'' is a 1996 film directed by Harold Becker. Al Pacino and John Cusack star as the Mayor of New York and his idealistic deputy mayor.

The plot follows the aftermath of the death of a boy caught in the crossfire of a shootout between a drug dealer and a detective.

According to the website BoxOfficeMojo.com, the film grossed an estimated $20 million in the U.S.

Plot

John Pappas is the mayor of New York and has far more grand ambitions, including the governor's office and the White House. His loyal deputy mayor is Kevin Calhoun, a young man from Louisiana who grew up loving politics.

One day, an off-duty police detective named Eddie Santos is ambushed by Tino Zapatti, a criminal with mob ties. They kill each other in a shootout with a stray bullet also causing the death of an innocent small boy named James Bone.

An investigation leads to a question as to why Judge Walter Stern, an old friend of the mayor's, had set Zapatti free on probation for a recent crime rather than send him to jail. Legal aid Marybeth Cogan, meanwhile, attempts to see that Santos' widow receives his full benefits, but there seems to be a conspiracy to paint the slain detective as less than honest.

Calhoun digs for the truth. He encounters Frank Anselmo, a Brooklyn politician who has connections to organized crime boss Paul Zapatti, the uncle of the cop-killer. Anselmo plants money at Zapatti's behest to smear the detective's good name.

The deputy mayor and Cogan continue to seek the truth from a number of sources, including Santos' partner and another Zapatti relative. After the murder of probation officer Larry Schwartz, they ultimately come to the conclusion that Judge Stern had to be on the take.

Pappas agrees that Stern must resign. The scandal snowballs to the point that Anselmo is instructed by Paul Zapatti to "take the pressure off" himself, by which he means commit suicide rather than become an informer or go to jail. To protect his family, Anselmo shoots himself.

The scandal is nearly at an end, but Calhoun knows one more thing -- his idol, the mayor, is also involved. He is the one who put Stern together with Anselmo to receive a bribe and leave the young Zapatti on the street. Calhoun soon tells Pappas there is only one choice -- to quit as mayor and leave politics for good ("You're gonna take yourself out, John. You're gonna take yourself out.").

Real-life background

Elements of the story are loosely based on New York City's political turmoil in the mid-1980s. Emerging from a crippling near bankruptcy, the city enjoyed modest success under the leadership of popular mayor Ed Koch. Democratic Queens borough president Donald Manes was a popular politician who turned his role into more of a proactive office, rather than ceremonial. A series of corruption investigations revealed he was using his office to orchestrate various kickback schemes. Many of his associates were forced to resign or faced prosecution. The result of these 1986 investigations led Manes to have a nervous breakdown, and eventually commit suicide. Mayor Ed Koch's popularity was shaken by the Queens borough president's suicide and the indictment of his associates. Further investigations revealed no connection between Koch and Manes' kickback schemes. While the plot of ''City Hall'' uses a child's wrongful death and cover-up, the dramatic investigation of an equally powerful mayor (Pappas) and borough president (Anselmo) draw many similarities. Koch himself has a brief cameo in the film as a newscaster.

Cast

Al Pacino as Mayor John Pappas

John Cusack as Kevin Calhoun

Danny Aiello as Frank Anselmo

Bridget Fonda as Marybeth Cogan

Tony Franciosa as Paul Zapatti

Martin Landau as Judge Walter Stern

David Paymer as Abe Goodman

Richard Schiff as Larry Schwartz

Harry Bugin as Morty the Waiter

External links

Mayor Papas' Eulogy in Text and Audio from AmericanRhetoric.com

References

Category:1996 films Category:Castle Rock Entertainment films Category:Columbia Pictures films Category:English-language films Category:Films directed by Harold Becker Category:Films set in New York City Category:Political drama films Category:Films shot in New York Category:Films shot in New Jersey

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Coordinates	15°48′00″N47°54′00″N
name	Al Pacino
birth name	Alfredo James Pacino
birth date	April 25, 1940
birth place	New York City
occupation	Actor, director, screenwriter, producer
years active	1968–present
children	2 daughters, 1 son }}

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (; born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in ''The Godfather'' trilogy, Tony Montana in ''Scarface'', Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in ''Dick Tracy'' and Carlito Brigante in ''Carlito's Way'', though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law — as a police officer, detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in ''Scent of a Woman'' won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations.

He made his feature film debut in the 1969 film ''Me, Natalie'' in a minor supporting role, before playing the leading role in the 1971 drama ''The Panic in Needle Park''. Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in ''The Godfather'' in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor were for ''Dick Tracy'' and ''Glengarry Glen Ross''. Oscar nominations for Best Actor include ''The Godfather Part II'', ''Serpico'', ''Dog Day Afternoon'', ''...And Justice for All'' and ''Scent of a Woman''.

In addition to a career in film, he has also enjoyed a successful career on stage, picking up Tony Awards for ''Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?'' and ''The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel''. A longtime fan of Shakespeare, he made his directorial debut with ''Looking for Richard'', a quasi-documentary on the play ''Richard III''. Pacino has received numerous lifetime achievement awards, including one from the American Film Institute. He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York.

Although he has never married, Pacino has had several relationships with actresses and has three children.

Early life and education

Pacino was born in East Harlem, New York City to Italian American parents Rose and Salvatore Pacino, who divorced when he was two years old. When he was two, his mother moved to the South Bronx near the Bronx Zoo, to live with her parents, Kate and James Gerardi, who originated from Corleone, Sicily. His father moved to Covina, California, and worked as an insurance salesman and restaurateur. Pacino attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in New York. During his teenage years 'Sonny', as he was known to his friends, aimed to become a baseball player, though he was also nicknamed 'The Actor'. Pacino flunked nearly all of his classes except English and dropped out of school at 17. His mother disagreed with his decision; they had an argument and he left home. He worked at a string of low-paying jobs, including messenger boy, busboy, janitor, and postal clerk, in order to finance his acting studies.

He started smoking at age nine, drinking and casual marijuana use at age thirteen, but never took hard drugs. His two closest friends died young of drug abuse at the ages of 19 and 30. Growing up in the Bronx, he got into occasional fights and was something of a troublemaker at school.

He acted in basement plays in New York's theatrical underground but was rejected for the Actors Studio while still a teenager. Pacino then joined the Herbert Berghof Studio (HB Studio), where he met acting teacher Charlie Laughton, who became his mentor and best friend. During this period, he was frequently unemployed and homeless, and sometimes had to sleep on the street, in theaters, or at friends' houses. In 1962, his mother died at the age of 43. The following year, his grandfather, James Gerardi, one of the most influential people in his life, also died.

Actors Studio training

After having spent four years at HB Studio, Pacino successfully auditioned for the Actors Studio. The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Pacino studied "method acting" under acting coach Lee Strasberg, who later appeared with Pacino in the films ''The Godfather Part II'' and in ''...And Justice for All''. During later interviews he spoke about Strasberg and the Studio's effect on his career. "The Actors Studio meant so much to me in my life. Lee Strasberg hasn’t been given the credit he deserves ... Next to Charlie, it sort of launched me. It really did. That was a remarkable turning point in my life. It was directly responsible for getting me to quit all those jobs and just stay acting." During another interview he added, "It was exciting to work for him [Lee Strasberg] because he was so interesting when he talked about a scene or talked about people. One would just want to hear him talk, because things he would say, you’d never heard before ... He had such a great understanding... he loved actors so much."

Pacino is currently co-president, along with Ellen Burstyn and Harvey Keitel, of the Actors Studio.

Stage career

In 1967, Pacino spent a season at the Charles Playhouse in Boston, performing in Clifford Odets' ''Awake and Sing!'' (his first major paycheck: $125 a week); and in Jean-Claude Van Itallie's ''America, Hurrah'', where he met actress Jill Clayburgh while working on this play. They went on to have a five-year romance and moved together back to New York City.

In 1968, Pacino starred in Israel Horovitz's ''The Indian Wants the Bronx'' at the Astor Place Theater, playing Murph, a street punk. The play opened January 17, 1968, and ran for 177 performances; it was staged in a double bill with Horovitz's ''It's Called the Sugar Plum'', starring Clayburgh. Pacino won an Obie Award for Best Actor for his role, with John Cazale winning for Best Supporting actor and Horowitz for Best New Play. Martin Bregman saw the play and offered to be 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''. Pacino and this production of ''The Indian Wants the Bronx'' traveled to Italy for a performance at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. It was Pacino's first journey to Italy; he later recalled that "performing for an Italian audience was a marvelous experience". Pacino and Clayburgh were cast in "Deadly Circle of Violence", an episode of the ABC television series ''N.Y.P.D.'', premiering November 12, 1968. Clayburgh at the time was also appearing on the soap opera ''Search for Tomorrow'', playing the role of Grace Bolton. Her father would send the couple money each month to help.

On February 25, 1969, Pacino made his Broadway debut in Don Petersen's ''Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?'' at the Belasco Theater. It closed after 39 performances on March 29, 1969, but Pacino received rave reviews and won the Tony Award on April 20, 1969. Pacino continued performing onstage in the 1970s, winning a second Tony Award for ''The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel'' and performing the title role in ''Richard III''. In 1980s Pacino again achieved critical success on the stage while appearing in David Mamet's ''American Buffalo,'' for which Pacino was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Since 1990 Pacino's stage work has included revivals of Eugene O'Neill's ''Hughie'', Oscar Wilde's ''Salome'' and in 2005 Lyle Kessler's ''Orphans''.

Pacino made his return to the stage in summer 2010, as Shylock in a Shakespeare in the Park production of ''The Merchant of Venice''. The acclaimed production transferred to Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in October, earning US$1 million at the box office in its first week. The performance also garnered him a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Play.

Film career

Early film career

Pacino found acting to be enjoyable and realized he had a gift for it while studying at The Actors Studio. However, his early work was not financially rewarding. After his success on stage, Pacino made his movie debut in 1969 with a brief screen appearance in ''Me, Natalie'', an independent film starring Patty Duke. In 1970, Pacino signed with the talent agency Creative Management Associates (CMA).

1970s

It was the 1971 film ''The Panic in Needle Park'', in which he played a heroin addict, that brought Pacino to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him as Michael Corleone in the blockbuster Mafia film ''The Godfather'' (1972). Although several established actors – including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and then little-known Robert De Niro – also tried out for the part, Coppola selected the relatively unknown Pacino, much to the dismay of studio executives. He was even teased on the set because his short stature. Pacino's performance earned him an Academy Award nomination, and offered a prime example of his early acting style, described by Halliwell's Film Guide as "intense" and "tightly clenched". Pacino boycotted the Academy Award ceremony, as he was insulted at being nominated for the Supporting Acting award, noting that he had more screen time than costar and Best Actor winner Marlon Brando – who was himself boycotting the awards.

In 1973, he co-starred in ''Scarecrow'', with Gene Hackman, and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor after starring in ''Serpico'', based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption of fellow officers. In 1975, he enjoyed further success with the release of ''Dog Day Afternoon'', based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz. It was directed by Sidney Lumet, who also directed him in ''Serpico'' a few years earlier, and Pacino was again nominated for Best Actor.

In 1977, Pacino starred as a race-car driver in ''Bobby Deerfield'', directed by Sydney Pollack, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor – Drama for his portrayal of the title role, losing out to Richard Burton, who won for ''Equus''. His next film was the courtroom drama ''...And Justice for All'', which again saw Pacino lauded by critics for his wide range of acting abilities, and nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for a fourth time. and the comedy-drama ''Author! Author!'' were critically panned. However, 1983's ''Scarface'', directed by Brian De Palma, proved to be a career highlight and a defining role. Upon its initial release, the film was critically panned, but did fairly well at the box office, grossing over US$45 million domestically. Pacino earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Cuban drug lord Tony Montana.

In 1985, Pacino worked on his personal project, ''The Local Stigmatic'', a 1969 Off Broadway play by the English writer Heathcote Williams. He starred in the play, remounting it with director David Wheeler and the Theater Company of Boston in a 50-minute film version. The film was never released theatrically but was later released as part of the ''Pacino: An Actor's Vision'' box set in 2007.

His 1985 film ''Revolution'' about a fur trapper during the American Revolutionary War, was a commercial and critical failure, which Pacino blamed on a rushed production, resulting in a four-year hiatus from films. During this time Pacino returned to the stage. He mounted workshop productions of ''Crystal Clear'', ''National Anthems'' and other plays; he appeared in ''Julius Caesar'' in 1988 in producer Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. Pacino remarked on his hiatus from film: "I remember back when everything was happening, '74, '75, doing ''The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui'' on stage and reading that the reason I'd gone back to the stage was that my movie career was waning! That's been the kind of ethos, the way in which theater's perceived, unfortunately." Pacino returned to film in 1989's ''Sea of Love'', in which he portrayed a detective hunting a serial killer who finds victims through the singles column in a newspaper. The film earned solid reviews.

1990s

Pacino received an Academy Award nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in the box office hit ''Dick Tracy'' in 1990, in which critic Roger Ebert wrote that Pacino is "the scene-stealer". Later in the year he followed this up by a return to one of his most famous characters, Michael Corleone, in ''The Godfather Part III'' (1990). The film received mixed reviews, and had problems during pre-production due to script rewrites and the withdrawal of actors shortly before production. In 1991, Pacino starred in ''Frankie and Johnny'' with Michelle Pfeiffer, who co-starred with Pacino in ''Scarface''. Pacino portrays a recently paroled cook who begins a relationship with a waitress (Pfeiffer) in the diner he works in. It was adapted by Terrence McNally from his own Off-Broadway play ''Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune'' (1987), which featured Kenneth Welsh and Kathy Bates. The film received mixed reviews, although Pacino later said he enjoyed playing the part. Janet Maslin in ''The New York Times'' wrote, "Mr. Pacino has not been this uncomplicatedly appealing since his "Dog Day Afternoon" days, and he makes Johnny's endless enterprise in wooing Frankie a delight. His scenes alone with Ms. Pfeiffer have a precision and honesty that keep the film's maudlin aspects at bay."

In 1992, Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the blind U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's ''Scent of a Woman''. That year, he was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for ''Glengarry Glen Ross'', making Pacino the first male actor ever to receive two acting nominations for two different movies in the same year, and to win for the lead role.

Pacino starred alongside Sean Penn in the crime dramas ''Carlito's Way'' in 1993, in which he portrayed a gangster who is released from prison with the help of his lawyer (Penn) and vows to go straight. 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).

In 1996, Pacino starred in his theatrical docudrama ''Looking for Richard'', which is both a performance of selected scenes of William Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' and a broader examination of Shakespeare's continuing role and relevance in popular culture. The cast brought together for the performance included Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey and Winona Ryder. Pacino played Satan in the supernatural thriller ''The Devil's Advocate'' (1997) which co-starred Keanu Reaves. The film was a success at the box office, taking US$150 million worldwide. Roger Ebert wrote in the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', ‘The satanic character is played by Pacino with relish bordering on glee.’ In ''Donnie Brasco'' Pacino played mafia gangster "Lefty", in the true story of undercover FBI agent Donnie Brasco (Johnny Depp) and his work in bringing down the mafia from the inside. Pacino also starred as real life ''60 Minutes'' producer Lowell Bergman in the multi-Oscar nominated ''The Insider'' opposite Russell Crowe, before starring in Oliver Stone's ''Any Given Sunday'' in 1999.

2000s

Pacino has not received another nomination from the Academy since ''Scent of a Woman'', but won two Golden Globes since the year 2000, the first being the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001 for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

In 2000, Pacino released a low budget film adaptation of Ira Lewis' play ''Chinese Coffee'' to film festivals. Shot almost exclusively as a one-on-one conversation between the two main characters, the project took almost three years to complete and it was funded entirely by Pacino. ''Chinese Coffee'' was included along with Pacino's two other rare films he has been involved in producing, ''The Local Stigmatic'' and ''Looking for Richard'', on a special DVD boxset titled ''Pacino: An Actor's Vision'' which was released in 2007. Pacino produced prologues and epilogues for the discs containing the films.

Pacino turned down an offer to reprise his role as Michael Corleone in the computer game version of ''The Godfather''. As a result, Electronic Arts was not permitted to use Pacino's likeness or voice in the game, although his character does appear in it. He did allow his likeness to appear in the video game adaptation of the remake of 1983's ''Scarface'', titled ''Scarface: The World is Yours''.

Director Christopher Nolan worked with Pacino for ''Insomnia'', a remake of the Norwegian film of the same name, co-starring Robin Williams. ''Newsweek'' stated that "he [Pacino] can play small as rivetingly as he can play big, that he can implode as well as explode". The film and Pacino's performance were well-received, gaining a favorable rating of 92 percent on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. The film did moderately well at the box office, taking in $113 million dollars worldwide. His next film, ''S1m0ne'', was one that Pacino liked, but which did not gain much critical praise or box office success.

He played the part of a publicist in ''People I Know'', a small film that received little attention despite Pacino's well-received performance. Rarely taking a supporting role since his commercial breakthrough, he accepted a small part in the box office flop ''Gigli'' in 2003 as a favor to director Martin Brest. and was described by Pacino as something he "personally couldn't follow".

Pacino starred as Shylock in Michael Radford's 2004 film adaptation of ''The Merchant of Venice'', choosing to bring compassion and depth to a character traditionally played as a villainous caricature. In ''Two for the Money'', Pacino portrays a sports gambling agent and mentor for Matthew McConaughey, alongside Rene Russo. The film was released on October 8, 2005 and received mixed reviews. Desson Thomson wrote in ''The Washington Post'', "Al Pacino has played the mentor so many times, he ought to get a kingmaker's award (...) the fight between good and evil feels fixed in favor of Hollywood redemption."

On October 20, 2006, the American Film Institute named Pacino the recipient of the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award. On November 22, 2006, the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin awarded Pacino the Honorary Patronage of the Society.

Pacino starred in Steven Soderbergh’s ''Ocean's Thirteen'' alongside George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould and Andy García as the villain Willy Bank, a casino tycoon targeted by Danny Ocean and his crew. The film received generally favorable reviews.

''88 Minutes'' was released on April 18, 2008 in the United States, having already been released in various other countries in 2007. The film co-starred Alicia Witt and was critically panned, although critics found the fault to be in the plot instead of Pacino's acting. In ''Righteous Kill'', Pacino and Robert De Niro co-star as New York detectives searching for a serial killer; rapper 50 Cent also stars in it. The film was released to theaters on September 12, 2008. Although it was an anticipated return for the two stars, it was not well received by critics. 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."

2010s

Pacino played Dr. Jack Kevorkian in an HBO Films biopic entitled ''You Don't Know Jack'', which premiered April 2010. The film is about the life and work of the physician-assisted suicide advocate. The performance earned Pacino his second Emmy Award for lead actor and his fourth Golden Globe award.

Pacino and Robert De Niro are reportedly set to star in the upcoming project ''The Irishman'', that will be directed by Martin Scorsese and co-star Joe Pesci. He's also filming a biographical picture about Phil Spector.

It was announced in May 2011 that Pacino was to be honored with the "Glory to the Film-maker" award at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. The award will be presented ahead of the premier of his film ''Wilde Salome'', which is the third film Pacino has directed. Pacino, who plays the role of Herod in the film, describes it as his "most personal project ever".

Personal life

Although he has never married, Pacino has three children from two of his many relationships. The eldest, Julie Marie (born 1989), is his daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant. He also has twins, son Anton James and daughter Olivia Rose (born 2001), with actress Beverly D'Angelo, with whom he had a relationship from 1996 until 2003. Pacino had a relationship with Diane Keaton, his co-star in the Godfather Trilogy. The on-again, off-again relationship ended following the filming of ''The Godfather Part II''. Other women he has had relationships with include Tuesday Weld, Marthe Keller, Kathleen Quinlan and Lyndall Hobbs.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	''Me, Natalie''	Tony	Film debut
1971	''''	Bobby
1972	''''	Michael Corleone	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1973		Francis Lionel 'Lion' Delbuchi
1973	''Serpico''	Frank Serpico	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
1974	''''	Michael Corleone
1990	''''	Michael Corleone	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1991		Johnny
1992			Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1992	''Scent of a Woman''	Frank Slade	Academy Award for Best Actor
1996		John Pappas
1997
1997	''''	John Milton
1999	''''	Lowell Bergman
1999	''Any Given Sunday''	Tony D'Amato
2000	''Chinese Coffee''	Harry Levine	Also director; filmed in 1997
2002		Will Dormer
2002	''S1m0ne''	Viktor Taransky
2002	''People I Know''	Eli Wurman
2003	''''	Walter Burke
2003	''Gigli''	Starkman
2003		Roy Cohn	Emmy Award for Best Lead Actor – Miniseries or a MovieGolden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion PictureScreen Actors Guild Award–Best Actor in A Mini-Series or Television Movie
2004	''''	Shylock
2005		Walter Abrams
2007	''Ocean's Thirteen''	Willie Bank
2007	''88 Minutes''	Dr. Jack Gramm
2008	''Righteous Kill''	Detective David "Rooster" Fisk
2010		Dr. Jack Kevorkian	TV filmEmmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award–Best Actor in A Mini-Series or Television Movie
2011	''The Son of No One''	Detective Stanford
2011	''Wilde Salome''		director
2011		Himself
2013		Aniello Dellacroce

Awards and nominations

Pacino has been nominated and has won many awards during his acting career including eight Oscar nominations (winning one), 15 Golden Globe nominations (winning four), five BAFTA nominations (winning two), two Emmy Awards for his work on Television and two Tony Awards for his work on the Stage. In 2007 the American Film Institute awarded Pacino with a lifetime achievement award and in 2003 British television viewers voted Pacino as the greatest film star of all time in a poll for Channel 4.

Notes

References

External links

Al Pacino at Emmys.com

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Coordinates	15°48′00″N47°54′00″N
name	Joe Lovano
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
birth name	Joseph Salvatore Lovano
born	December 29, 1952Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
instrument	Tenor saxophoneAlto saxophoneC melody saxophoneClarinetFlute
genre	Post bop
associated acts	Saxophone SummitSF Jazz CollectiveMcCoy Tyner QuartetShades of Jazz
notable instruments	Tenor saxophone }}

Joseph Salvatore "Joe" Lovano (born December 29, 1952) is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls. He is married to jazz singer Judi Silvano.

Biography

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Lovano was exposed throughout his early life to jazz by his father, Tony "Big T" Lovano. John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Sonny Stitt were among his earlier influences. He developed further at Berklee College of Music where he studied under Herb Pomeroy and Gary Burton, then served a big band apprenticeship with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd and the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

Cleveland tenorman "Big T" Lovano was his son's first inspiration, teaching him all the standards, how to lead a gig, pace a set, and be versatile enough to always find work. Joe started on alto at age six and switched to tenor five years later. He attended Berklee before working with Jack McDuff and Dr. Lonnie Smith. After three years with Woody Herman's orchestra, Lovano moved to New York and began playing regularly with Mel Lewis’ Big Band. This influence is still present in his solos. He often plays lines that convey the rhythmic drive and punch of an entire horn section.

In the early ‘80s he began working in John Scofield’s quartet and a bass-less trio with Paul Motian and Bill Frisell. Steeped in the tradition of Ornette Coleman, Motian’s recordings show off Lovano’s avant-garde abilities. Lovano has enduring musical partnerships with John Scofield and Paul Motian, having participated in some of their more noteworthy projects over the years. In 1993, at the suggestion of musicologist Gunther Schuller, fellow Clevelander and bebop guitarist Bill DeArango recorded the album "Anything Went" with Lovano. "He was a major mentor for all of us round here," said Lovano. In 1999, having developed dementia, DeArango was taken into a nursing home, where Lovano visited him on December 26, 2005. Two hours after Lovano left, DeArango died. "He knew we were there," said Lovano. "His heartbeat raced. He knew we were there."

He is currently a jazz artist on the international level. His live work, specifically ''Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard'', garnered a Down Beat "Jazz Album of the Year" award. Other releases include ''Trio Fascination'' and ''52nd Street Themes''. In the late 1990s, he formed the Saxophone Summit with Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker (now deceased, replaced with Ravi Coltrane). He played the tenor saxophone on the critically acclaimed 2007 McCoy Tyner album ''Quartet''. In 2006 Lovano released ''Streams Of Expression'', a tribute to cool jazz and free jazz. He did this with the help of Gunther Schuller who contributed his "Birth Of The Cool Suite". Joe Lovano and Hank Jones released an album together in June 2007 entitled ''Kids''. Lovano also currently leads his quartet with Berklee Faculty and students Esperanza Spalding, James Weidman, and Otis Brown.

He has been the teacher of Jeff Coffin after the latter received an NEA Jazz Studies Grant in 1991.

Joe Lovano has been playing Borgani saxophones since 1991 and exclusively since 1999. He has his own series called Borgani-Lovano, which uses Pearl-Silver Alloy with Gold 24K keys.

He appears in Noah Buschel's film ''The Missing Person'', with Academy Award Nominees Amy Ryan and Michael Shannon.

Discography

As leader

''Tones, Shapes & Colors'' (Soul Note, 1985)

''Hometown Sessions'' (JSL, 1986)

''Solid Steps'' (Jazz Club, 1986)

''Village Rhythm'' (Soul Note, 1988)

''Worlds'' (Evidence, 1989)

''Landmarks'' (Blue Note, 1990)

''Sounds of Joy'' (Enja, 1991)

''From the Soul'' (Blue Note, 1991)

''Universal Language'' (Blue Note, 1992)

''Tenor Legacy'' (Blue Note, 1993)

''Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard'' (Blue Note, 1994)

''Rush Hour'' (Blue Note, 1994)

''Ten Tales'' (Sunnyside, 1994)

''Celebrating Sinatra'' (Blue Note, 1996)

''Tenor Time'' (Something Else, 1997)

''Flying Colors'' (Blue Note, 1997) with Gonzalo Rubalcaba

''Trio Fascination: Edition One'' (Blue Note, 1998)

''Friendly Fire'' (Blue Note, 1999) with Greg Osby

''52nd Street Themes'' (Blue Note, 2000)

''Flights of Fancy: Trio Fascination Edition Two'' (Blue Note, 2001)

''Viva Caruso'' (2002)

''On This Day ... at the Vanguard'' (2003)

''I'm All for You'' (2004)

''Joyous Encounters'' (2005)

''"Streams of Expression"'' (2006)

''Symphonica'' (2008)

''Folk Art'' (2009)

''Bird Songs'' (2011) with Us Five

As sideman

With Paul Motian

''Psalm'' with Ed Schuller and Billy Drewes (ECM, 1982)

''The Story of Maryam'' with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper (Soul Note, 1984)

''Jack of Clubs'' with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper (Soul Note, 1985)

''It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago'' (ECM, 1985)

''Misterioso'' with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper (Soul Note, 1986)

''One Time Out'' (Soul Note, 1987)

''Monk in Motian'' (JMT, 1988) trio + guests

''On Broadway Volume 1'' (JMT, 1989)

''Bill Evans'' (JMT, 1990)

''On Broadway Volume 2'' (JMT, 1990)

''Motian in Tokyo'' (JMT, 1991)

''On Broadway Volume 3'' (JMT, 1993)

''Trioism'' (JMT, 1993) trio + guest

''At the Village Vanguard'' (JMT, 1995) trio

''Sound of Love'' (JMT, 1995) trio (live)

''I Have the Room Above Her'' (ECM, 2004) trio

''Time and Time Again'' (ECM, 2006) trio

With McCoy Tyner

''Quartet'' (2007)

With John Scofield

''Oh!'' (2003)

With others

''Unknown Voyage'' (1985) with Furio Di Castri

''Think Before You Think'' (1989) with Bill Stewart, Marc Cohen and Dave Holland

''Snide Remarks'' (1995) with Bill Stewart, Eddie Henderson, Bill Carrothers and Larry Grenadier

''Grand Slam'' (2000) with Jim Hall, George Mraz, and Lewis Nash

''Fourth World'' (2001) with James Emery, Judi Silvano, and Drew Gress

''Gathering of Spirits'' (2004) with Michael Brecker and Dave Liebman

''Kids: Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola'' (2007) with Hank Jones

''Silverslide'' with Dan Silverman

''Masada Quintet: Stolas: The Book of Angels Volume 12'' (2009) with John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, Greg Cohen and Joey Baron

References

External links

Official Website

Streams of Expression Video Scrapbook

Borgani saxophones - as played by J.Lovano

Joe Lovano at NPR Music

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Jean Butler (born March 14, 1971), is an Irish American Irish dancer, choreographer, and occasional actress. She is best known for originating the principal female role in the Irish dance company Riverdance.

Personal life and education

Jean Butler was born in Mineola, New York. Her mother, Josephine, is from County Mayo in Ireland. She has an older brother, Michael, and a younger sister, Cara. She started off with ballet and tap classes at the age of four. She eventually quit both. She began Irish dance lessons at the age of six, which she quit promptly. "I hated it. They made me stand with my arms at my sides for two hours. So, I left. I was too young." She tried Irish dance again at age nine, this time with a different dance teacher, Donald Golden, who she considers to be one of the most influential people in her life. About a year into Irish dance, she became very serious with it and quit the soccer and baseball teams. From a young age, she competed in regional, national and international championships.

Butler attended Hofstra University and earned an Honours Degree in Theatre and Drama from the University of Birmingham. In England she met Irish dancer Colin Dunne when she was fifteen, and they performed together at Mayo 5000. Together they produced the Irish dancing show ''Dancing on Dangerous Ground''. Jean completed a Master's degree in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of Limerick in 2005.

In 2001 she married Irish designer Cuan Hanley.

Dance career

Jean and her sister, Cara Butler, each won numerous national titles and regional titles, and placed well in international competitions. Jean has performed with Green Fields of America and Cherish the Ladies. She debuted with The Chieftains at Carnegie Hall at the age of seventeen, and toured with them on three continents.

Riverdance/Dancing on Dangerous Ground

In 1994, under the invitation of producer Moya Doherty, she performed in a seven-minute intermission piece at the Eurovision Song Contest entitled ''Riverdance''. The piece was co-choreographed by Butler with Michael Flatley. The response was so explosive that it was extended into a full show, starring Jean Butler and Flatley. The show toured for about a year. Flatley then abruptly left the show over contractual disputes; six months later she was joined by Colin Dunne. They then danced at the famous Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York. This was later put on DVD. After a long and extremely successful run with the show, Butler also eventually left ''Riverdance''.

She and Dunne (who had by then also left ''Riverdance'') collaborated again to create the show ''Dancing on Dangerous Ground'', which was based on the ancient Irish legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne. It opened in London in 1999 to critical acclaim, and then in New York.

In 1999 she was also awarded the Irish Post Award for "outstanding contribution to Irish Dance". From 2003 to 2005, Butler was Artist In Residence at the University of Limerick's Irish World Music Centre. In 2009 she received the "Outstanding Contribution to Arts & Culture Alumni Award" from the University of Limerick.

Later career

In 2005 she released an instructional DVD, ''Irish Dance Masterclass With Jean Butler''.

She received a commission from the Irish Arts Council to create a solo work in 2004 and premiered "Does She Take Sugar?" on 12 April 2007 at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin. With Colin Dunne and George Hook she is a judge on the Radio Telefís Éireann reality series ''Celebrity Jigs 'n' Reels''.

She retired from active dancing in 2010.

In January 2011, it was announced that she had designed and released her own jewellery line. The collection was launched at Showcase Ireland at the RDS towards the end of the month.

Films

Butler has appeared in several films: ''The Brylcreem Boys'', ''Goldfish Memory'', ''The Revengers Tragedy'' and ''Old Friends''. She has also auditioned for large-budget Hollywood films such as, "Meet Joe Black"(with Brad Pitt), and "The Postman"(with Kevin Costner).

References

External links

Official website

Article by Michael Seaver on Does She Take Sugar?

Dancing on Dangerous Ground

'Riverdance' star Jean Butler hangs up her Irish dancing shoes for soft pumps

Riverprancer; Jean Butler lifts the lid on life with Riverdance co-star Michael Flatley

New Terrain for Barefoot Riverdancer

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Colin Dunne (born 8 May 1968 in Birmingham, England) is an English performer of Irish dance.

Training

Dunne trained at the Marion Turley Academy of Irish Dance in Coventry. In 1978 at the age of nine, Dunne swept the "Grand Slam" of Irish dance competition by winning the World Championships, All Ireland and All England titles. He went on to win a total of nine World, eleven Great Britain, nine All Ireland and eight All England titles.

Dance background

A teaching career followed his successful competitive one, during which time he also completed an economics degree at University of Warwick and a three-year contract with the Arthur Andersen office in Birmingham, training as a chartered accountant. For five years, he taught with Turley in the academy where he had trained, and taught dance in Ireland, the United States, New Zealand and Australia. In 1995, his Irish dance instructional video "Celtic Feet" was launched in Europe, and it remained in the UK top 20 video sales chart for 10 weeks. The video was subsequently released in North America on the relaunch of the QVC network in 1997.

The day he qualified as a chartered accountant in September 1993, Colin resigned from his job. Having already toured the UK with The Chieftains, he was asked to dance with them on their upcoming month-long tour of Canada. In 1995, Dunne met fiddle player Frankie Gavin, who invited him to New York City in March to perform at a St. Patrick's day celebration at Broadway's Mariott Marquis.

Riverdance

Dunne was approached by Riverdance through American tap dancer Tariq Winston, with whom he developed a number called "Trading Taps" for the show. Dunne and Winston had met through Gavin at the St. Patrick's Day celebration. The number was to be included in the London debut of the show. However, Michael Flatley had just left the show after a disagreement over creative control with the producers, so Dunne was tapped to replace him in the lead role. This move reunited him with former dance partner Jean Butler, who danced with him at Mayo 5000 and at various Chieftains shows.

Post-Riverdance career

In June 1998, Dunne left Riverdance to set up his own dance and production company, teaming up with Butler. In 1999, they co-produced, choreographed and starred in their first production, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, a theatrical dance production of the Irish myth "Diarmuid and Grainne". The show premiered at The Theatre Royal in London in December 1999, and went on to a sell-out run at Radio City Music Hall in March 2000.

Dunne launched the MA in Dance Performance at the Irish World Music Centre based at the University of Limerick in 1999. Two years later, he accepted a position as Dancer in Residence at the university, where he also achieved a Master's in Contemporary Dance Performance. Here he began focusing on a body of solo works still relying on the dance tradition from which he comes, but within the framework of Contemporary Dance principles. Much of this work was premiered during 2002 namely in Edmonton, Canada as a guest of the Citie Ballet, and at the Vail International Dance festival in Colorado. He also choreographed "HeadFoot" for Daghdha Dance Company as part of Yoshiko Chuma's "10,000 Steps", which closed the Dublin International Dance Festival in May 2002. As of January 2003, Dunne is collaborating with Chuma as choreographer and performer in her production of "The Yellow Room" which will tour Ireland in January/February 2003. Dunne continues to travel the world teaching Irish dance classes.

References

External links

Official website

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