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"""Why am I doing this?"" Al Pacino wondered a year into his personal movie about his obsession with Salome, Oscar Wilde's lyrical play, written in 1891. ""No one saw Looking for Richard, who's going to want to see something about Oscar Wilde?"" In ""I Want You in My Movie!"" Grobel found the answer to that question and more when he joined the crew and followed the creative process of filmmaking from inception to completion. His meticulous journal is as close to being there as a reader can ever hope to get. This intimate peek behind the curtain, documenting the hopes, dreams, frustrations and complexities of Pacino and all the people who come in and out of his life, is a fitting sequel to Grobel's internationally acclaimed AL PACINO in Conversation with Lawrence Grobel, which was named the Best International Book of the Year by the Society of French Film Critics. ""I Want You in My Movie!"" takes you deeper into the mind and process of Al Pacino. Including exclusive photos Grobel took on the set and behind the scenes, it's a movie buff's delight, warts and all."

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"Lawrence Grobel (www.lawrencegrobel.com) is a novelist, journalist, biographer, poet and teacher. Five of his 22 books have been singled out as Best Books of the Year by Publisher's Weekly and many have appeared on Best Seller lists. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. PEN gave his Conversations with Capote a Special Achievement Award. The French Society of Film Critics awarded his Al Pacino their Prix Litteraire as the Best International Book of 2008. James A. Michener called his biography, The Hustons, ""a masterpiece."" His The Art of the Interview is used as a text in many journalism schools. Writer's Digest called him ""a legend among journalists."" Joyce Carol Oates dubbed him ""The Mozart of Interviewers"" and Playboy singled him out as ""The Interviewer's Interviewer"" after publishing his interviews with Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Henry Fonda and Marlon Brando. He has written for dozens of magazines and has been a Contributing Editor for Playboy, Movieline, World (New Zealand), and Trendy (Poland). He served in the Peace Corps, teaching at the Ghana Institute of Journalism; created the M.F.A. in Professional Writing for Antioch University; and taught in the English Department at UCLA for ten years. He has appeared on CNN, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Charlie Rose Show and in two documentaries, Salinger and Al Pacino's Wilde Salome."

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