Here’s something scary: Al Pacino never watched William Friedkin’s famed “The Exorcist” before working with the late auteur on “Cruising.” Pacino, who is now playing an exorcist in “The Ritual” ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Al Pacino reveals he's never seen The Exorcist despite playing one in his new movie, The Ritual. The classic 1973 horror film was ...

The 1980 film "Cruising," starring Al Pacino, was the topic of a front-page story in our January 31, 1980 issue. Gay community members formed an ad hoc group to try and stop the film's release, which ...

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Pacino infamously had a contentious dynamic with the late auteur, who died in 2023. “I didn’t even see ‘The Exorcist’ in my life,” Pacino said, adding, “It’s a great film, I hear. I should see it. I ...

Al Pacino reveals he's never seen The Exorcist despite playing one in his new movie, The Ritual. The classic 1973 horror film was directed by William Friedkin, who had some unkind things to say about ...