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Attica! Attica! "Pacino shows another measure of his remarkable range... from start to end it is engrossing and unpredictable." Charles Champlin, LA Times
 "Al Pacino achieves a sort of comic saintliness as he struts, rants, cajoles, commands. A Pacino gem." -Joseph Gelmis Newsday
~~The real robbers stole $213,000, held the hostages for 14 hours.
~The real Sonny (John Wojtowicz) was paid $7,500 + one percent of the net movie profits for the movie rights for his story. He gave $2,500 to Ernie, his male lover, to have the sex change operation that was his reason for robbing the bank in the first place. Ernie became Elizabeth Debbie Eden and later died of AIDS.
"DOG DAY AFTERNOON: WHICH BANK?",
~~1999/05/02 ~Author:Danny Moses On August 22, 1972, two gunmen held seven Chase Manhattan bank employees (Magill's Survey of Cinema reports nine) hostage for 14 hours in Flatbush, NY. John Wojtowicz, a former bank teller, had hoped to finance a sex-change operation in Denmark for his lover. Police appeared at first to give in to the gunmen's demands: the hostages and their captors were taken by limousine to Kennedy International Airport, where a plane stood by. But at Kennedy, one gunman was shot to death; the other, John Wojtowicz, was captured. And in a bit of "Where Are They Now?" Time reported in its 10-12-87 issue: Elizabeth Debbie Eden, 41, formerly Ernest Aron, the transsexual whose wish for a sex-change operation resulted in the 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery that inspired the movie Dog Day Afternoon, died of AIDS-related pneumonia in Rochester. John Wojtowicz, Aron's lover, who was played in the 1975 movie by Al Pacino, was jailed for seven years [originally sentenced to a term of 20 years] after the bungled robbery attempt that left an accomplice dead.
Halfway through the production, Pacino collapsed from exhaustion and had to be hospitalized for a short time. He swore off movies for a while, returning to his first love, the Broadway stage. ( "The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits") |
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