Article: Career chameleon: Pacino's characters represent some of film's most indelible figures.

Those lucky enough to see Al Pacino from the beginning of his life as a film actor, which really began with his wiry addict Bobby in "Panic in Needle Park," can measure where he is now, 34 years later.

That measurement takes in his astounding first four years, comprising his Michael Corleone in the first two "Godfather" films, his stumble-bum alongside Gene Hackman in the underseen "Scarecrow," the first of his many New York cops in "Serpico" and his tragically funny gay bank robber in "Dog Day Afternoon." A huge factor in the increasingly overstated argument that American movies peaked in the early '70s is Pacino, and what unprepared moviegoers were hit with ...

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