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Tag: Al Pacino

Enter Al Pacino: How the Master’s First Starring Role in The Panic in Needle Park Compares to Later Performances

  By Olga Tchepikova-Treon June 1, 2025 May 30, 2025 BLEAK WEEK
Two people sitting in a park

| Dan McCabe | “I thought it was something I could play. A few people could have done it, but it was a relatively castable role for me. I had made my theater bones playing these types of street characters… Continue reading

Tagged   1970s, Al Pacino, Bleak Week, Drugs

health class lessons in cinematic heroin 

  By Olga Tchepikova-Treon June 1, 2025 June 2, 2025 BLEAK WEEK, Uncategorized
A woman and man are walking outside, the woman on the left and the man with his hood up on the right. there is a large apartment building behind them.

| Ben Tuthill | The Physical Education department at St. Paul Central made the inspired decision in the mid-2000s to screen Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream as the capstone to the anti-drug unit of sophomore-year health class. We needed… Continue reading

Tagged   1970s, Al Pacino, Bleak Week, Drugs
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