People: Pacino’s film career is still up in the air
Al Pacino made two trips up the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, with a pair of movies about aging, regret, giving up and letting go.
But fear not – the actor says he’s not about to lower the curtain on his own career.
Pacino plays a small-town Texas locksmith with a key for everything except his own unhappiness in David Gordon Green’s “Manglehorn,” one of 20 films competing for the festival’s Golden Lion prize. And he’s an aging actor who has lost his mojo, and his grip on reality, in Barry Levinson’s “The Humbling,” screening out-of-competition at the festival.
In both films, the 74-year-old actor looks a wreck – shambling, disheveled and drawn. But speaking to journalists before Saturday’s dual premieres he was black-clad, sharply coiffed and sporting ice-blue mirrored sunglasses – every bit the movie star.
He said he could relate to his “Humbling” character’s desire to pack in the rigors of acting – but hadn’t lost his own appetite for the job.
“I feel very lucky, I have to say,” Pacino said. “When I think of my life and my background, where I came from – like all of us I had issues as a youngster and had to overcome things, and I found something in life that I love to do.
“I’ve been riding it a long time and so far the plane is not landing yet.”
Shakira announces second pregnancy
Shakira is pregnant with baby No. 2.
The Colombian singer made the announcement on her Facebook and Twitter pages on Thursday. Her representative confirmed that the accounts were real.
The Grammy winner wrote: “Yes, we are expecting our second baby!! Thank you all for your well wishes!”
No more details about the pregnancy were revealed.
Shakira and soccer player Gerard Pique, 27, welcomed their son, Milan Pique Mebarak, last year.
Pique, who is from Barcelona, is a soccer player for FC Barcelona.
Grammy-winning Shakira, 37, released her self-titled 10th album in March.
The birthday bunch
Japanese monster movie actor Katsumi Tezuka is 102. Actor Warren Berlinger is 77. Rock musician Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) is 75. Actor Jack Thompson is 74. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 69. Singer Van Morrison is 69. Rock musician Rudolf Schenker (The Scorpions) is 66. Actor Richard Gere is 65. Rock singer Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) is 57. Rock musician Gina Schock (The Go-Go’s) is 57. Singer Tony DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) is 55. Rhythm-and-blues musician Larry Waddell (Mint Condition) is 51. Actor Jaime P. Gomez is 49. Rock musician Jeff Russo (Tonic) is 45. Singer-composer Deborah Gibson is 44. Rock musician Greg Richling (Wallflowers) is 44. Actor Zack Ward is 44. Actor Chris Tucker is 42. Actress Sara Ramirez is 39. Rhythm-and-blues singer Tamara (Trina & Tamara) is 37.