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Bonus video! Al Pacino was a demanding diva ... OR WAS HE???
🕑 Added 2025-03-02 17:00:07 +0000 UTCHello there! In this week's bonus video, I have a curious case of conflicting stories from Cruising director William Friedkin, most of them relating to Al Pacino. To hear Friedkin tell it, Pacino was one headache after another: He was unprepared, didn't know his lines, showed up late, and his hair looked terrible.
However! I have a feeling that's not the truth (Ellen) and that Friedkin's doing a little historical revision. Why would he do that? Well, that's where the true mystery lies. But I have theories.
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Alexandra Kwan
Al Pacino played Roy Cohn in the TV version of Angels in America, too. Also, it could be the director was just trying to get ahead of a potential diss by Pacino, though the idea of dissing the director probably never entered Pacino's head.
claire bee
Oh hey look, a Korean stage version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmuSGgzpl4Q I think it’s a tribute to the power of the story that I watched this all the way through even though it’s a) mostly in a language I don’t speak, and b) clearly being filmed on a smartphone from right at the back of the theatre. Anyway, after watching this I went down a bit of an internet rabbit hole, and it turns out that Rocky Horror is actually really big in Korea. Exhibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcAutD7gr9s Exhibit B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_2FXDQf7fY and Exhibit C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Iwbra7dyk . Also apparently Richard O’Brien was involved in the first ever Korean production of the show. You mentioned on Bluesky that there was a significant Rocky Horror anniversary coming up, and asked for suggestions on how to celebrate it; I don’t know if this is the answer to that question, but I think it might possibly be a part of the answer! Wow, look, a less-than-essay-length comment! How about that?
