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Al Pacino has had a thing for playing real life figures lately. He earned critical acclaim for playing Jack Kevorkian in HBO's "You Don't Know Jack," he returned to the network for the upcoming and still untitled Phil Spector movie directed by David Mamet, and now he's taking on another big name, and reuniting with an old friend in the process. Pacino is teaming up with his "Scarface" and "Carlito's Way" director Brian De Palma for "Happy Valley." This time the actor will be taking on the legendary and disgraced football coach Joe Paterno, and the project has got some good weight behind it. Namely, producer Edward R. Pressman ("Wall Street," "Badlands," "American Psycho") who has optioned the bestselling book "Paterno" by Joe Posnanski, with Dave McKenna ("American History X," "Blow") to write the script. In case you somehow have been living under a rock »
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