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“... stars who have never donned stetsons or strapped on six-guns (Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss). Arnold Schwarzenegger, the leading male action hero of the past dozen years, could not possibly appear in a Western. It has remained for Kevin Costner, who grew up during the heyday of TV Westerns, to attempt to ...”

“... tended to be showbusiness people. She liked Robin Williams, Charlie Chaplin, Tommy Lee Jones and Al Pacino. She also liked Salinger. (‘Jerry’ had been a friend since the 1950s and Lillian could sometimes sound like a female Holden Caulfield, railing against the phonies.) She got a fine awareness of ‘the penalties of making it’ from Salinger and ...”

“... this scene is influenced by the famous one in Michael Mann’s Heat, set in a coffee shop, where Al Pacino and Robert de Niro, policeman and gangster respectively, take a break from their total war and find some conversational common ground. Von Braun admires the model rockets and lunar capsules made by the narrator’s grandfather. Yet Chabon, having ...”

“... What he did was work, or live, or sit for the 18th time through the video of the Brian De Palma/Al Pacino re-make of Scarface. ‘Remember, Tony, every day above ground is a good day.’ The posthumous Raymond novel, Not till the Red Fog Rises, moves with that same remorseless video drive, frenzy (just) under control: like a drunk walking on razors ...”

“... first and the best of her movies, The Panic in Needle Park (1971), co-written with Dunne. It gave Al Pacino his first big role and stripped whatever shreds of romantic glamour still attached to drug addiction. But she didn’t think screenwriting was real writing. ‘You’re making notes for the director,’ she told Hilton Als in 2006. Too many people ...”

“... people to believe those myths. In Scarface, Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer) tells Tony Montana (Al Pacino) not to get high on his own supply. Cataclysms like Brexit, and politicians like Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson, are what happens when an entire country gets high on its own supply, but everyone else stopped buying long ago. I was in Brussels ...”