Pacino: A New York state of mind
Donna Jacobs, Citizen Special
Published: Monday, April 23, 2007
From a broken home on the poor streets of the South Bronx of New York City, tough and mistrustful of media, he atypically allowed himself to be probed over a period of decades by his friend, journalist Lawrence Grobel.
They punctuated hours of animated interviews on his acting career and hours of thrust-and-parry interviews on his personal life with paddle tennis, arm-wrestling and going to see baseball games for relief. They also played chess and, says Grobel, Pacino improved over the years from playing chess on movie sets. He’d become “proficient at castling, trading queens and zeroing in on knocking off an opponent’s king.”
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Al Pacino is an incredible actor!
if he is proficient at castling then he is too much of a player for me!
I need a favour from fellow chess enthusiasts.
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Chess matches (for charity) with the movie stars. Al Pacino could be a captain of a team.
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if he is proficient at castling then he is too much of a player for me!
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Hey, castling can be pretty tricky stuff. Especially if you try to grab both pieces with one hand and switch them around… while chewing gum at the same time.