Al Pacino admits that his 1980 crime movie “Cruising” was “exploitative” — but “didn’t see it as that when I was doing it.” The William Friedkin thriller about a serial killer targeting gay men on the ...

The controversy around Al Pacino’s film Cruising led the actor to donate his earnings to charity. While the 1980 thriller has become something of a cult classic, as Pacino writes in his recently ...

After decades of silence on the subject, Al Pacino says he's aware of the criticism levied against the 1980 film Cruising — and he agrees with it. The actor revealed in his recent memoir, Sonny Boy, ...

Ryan is a reporter at The Advocate, and a graduate of New York University Tisch's Department of Dramatic Writing, with a focus in television writin ...

Nearly 45 years ago, Al Pacino knew his controversial 1980 film Cruising wouldn’t age well. In his new memoir Sonny Boy, the Oscar winner admitted he found the movie “exploitative” to the LGBTQ ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. In 1980, the director of The Exorcist and the star of The ...

It's possible that no one has had a career quite like Al Pacino, who remains one of the greatest actors of his generation. The stage actor turned star, thanks to The Godfather (a project he didn't ...

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 wrote in his new memoir, 'Sonny Boy,' that he "just wanted one positive thing to come out of" making his 1980 film, 'Cruising,' by donating his salary Al Pacino revealed in his new memoir ...

Al Pacino revealed in his new memoir that he donated his paycheck from the 1980 movie Cruising because he felt the film proved to be "exploitative" of the LGBTQ+ community. Pacino, who was 39 at the ...