Sal pacino biography of barack
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I would like to send my deepest sympathy to the wife and family of Al's dad Sal Pacino who died earlier this year. (see articles below)
Here is Katherin Kovin-Pacino's website http://kkovinpacino.com/
Obviously I haven't been able to update the page in quite awhile. I apologize to those who have sent me info and emails. I'm trying to catch up as fast as I can.
AL'S FATHER SAL PACINO PASSED AWAY ON WED, JANUARY 1, 2005
(thanks Jules for this info)
Father of Oscar winner Pacino dies in Covina
By Rodney Tanaka, Staff Writer
COVINA -- Sal Pacino, a longtime Covina resident and father of Oscar-winner Al Pacino, has died.
"He was the love of my life," his wife, Katherin Kovin-Pacino, said Thursday. "He was charming, he was funny. He was just brilliant."
Pacino, 82, died of a heart attack Wednesday. He once owned Pacino's Lounge, a restaurant, hotel and bar in downtown Covina that closed in 1992. The bar stirred up controversy in the early 1990s after allegations employees served alcohol to minors.
Demonstrators picketed outside the bar, calling for its closure. The California Alcoholic Beverage Control Departmen
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Al Pacino - Biography
Al Pacino's Early Life
Alfredo James Pacino was born on April 25, 1940, to Salvatore and Rose Pacino in New York City. His parents split up when he was two years old, and Pacino and his mom moved in with his grandparents in the South Bronx.
Intelligent, but never motivated by school work, he found solace and fulfillment in acting, although his mother often disagreed with his choices.
The two enjoyed a very close relationship, and Pacino was devastated by her death in 1962 after a long illness, as did his maternal grandfather the following year.
Aged 16, Pacino won a place at the prestigious High School for Performing Arts in Manhattan, but dropped out after just one year. He moved out of home and struggled to make ends meet on his own, and after years of off-off-Broadway work and basement plays, was accepted into Lee Strasberg's famed Actors Studio (which he eventually became president of in 2000).
Al Pacino's Career
He began a career on the stage in the late '60s, picking up a Tony Award for a Broadway production of Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie? in 1969. As he transitioned to Hollywood, he made his big screen debut in 1971 as a heroin-addicted criminal in The Panic In Needle Park, but it was Francis Ford Coppola's The
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