Al Pacino is soon to be counted among the stars. Besides the Hollywood sort of star, I mean. He's about to claim an honor that has also been bestowed on Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and to equate the American actor with such a one, surely it's better than an Oscar.
Mr. Pacino has been in Ireland of late, filming a documentary. Oddly enough, he's most interested in Oscar Wilde and Mr. Wilde's play Salome. The film in progress is titled "Salomaybe" but I suppose we'll have to wait for its release to understand the significance of the name. As long as he's here, and considering the fact that Oscar Wilde was a student at Trinity College, he's to be given an Honorary Patronage of the Trinity College University Philosophical Society. Quite a mouthful for the man most famous for portraying a Mafia don.
At 8 p.m. tonight, the award will be handed over and Mr. Pacino will speak to the bright lights of Trinity. His lecture is set to discuss Oscar Wilde's days as a student at the university, presumably taken from Wilde's various writings and jottings that Mr. Pacino has been studying.
From Martin Sheen to Al Pacino - Ireland's the place to be, isn't it?
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