Where could I emote?
Bee Wilson: Looking for Al Pacino, 26 June 2025
“... shoes with holes in them, he met Sheen on the subway. Sheen was starring in The Wicked Cooks, a Günter Grass play, at the Orpheum on Second Avenue: he had come a long way from cleaning toilets. He asked whether Pacino would do him the ‘honour’ of being his understudy. Pacino agreed to do it for the money, but when Sheen came down with ... ”