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Al Pacino
Born 1940
Al Pacino is the author of Sonny Boy (2024), a memoir whose title draws from the Al Jolson song that gave him his nickname. The book opens in 1943, when Pacino was three years old and his mother Rose, a factory worker, began sneaking him into local picture houses. It chronicles a postwar South Bronx childhood and his lifelong relationship with acting.
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