Pacino's Double Dare

TITLE: SALOME

AUTHOR: OSCAR WILDE

TITLE: CHINESE COFFEE

AUTHOR: IRA LEWIS

WHERE: IN REPERTORY ON BROADWAY

THE BOTTOM LINE: By turns a lisping potentate and a nervy novelist, Al Pacino gives the season's foremost star turn.

When he blazed to Broadway stardom and a Tony Award in 1969 playing an embittered drug addict in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, Al Pacino showed a menacing fire. Three years later, in the most memorable of his six Oscar- nominated film roles, he revealed an even scarier core of ice as a Mafia don in the making in The Godfather. His intelligence, energy,...

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