MEMORABILIA

Just made it out to my storage space in California, (Santa Barbara). I found some cool stuff there. Among them, this photo:

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photo: Stephanie Saia

Unique?

Taken just before he began work on "Scarface," when have we seen Al Pacino sans "attitude" just sitting and posing for a picture, like a regular human being, which I found that he was. We had a great time that year, playing cards each day at that card table.

This was one of my very first jobs in "show-biz" working as an understudy, for one year, on the Off-Broadway production of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" -- an amazing education.

The group: (l -r) Lou, Al Pacino, Annie, James Hayden, José (me), Wally, Michael, J.J. Johnson (Mamet dedicated "American Buffalo" to J.J.).

For some stories about what it was like working with Mr. Pacino you can hear them at: the Inexplicable DUMB SHOW

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"The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another." -- Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut