about edwin booth. i'd read about it.nd edmund king came -- keane came at a time when he came from a whole other climate, a whole other world. when he went on the stage, it was new. there is something about the roles i played in this situation and the times we are in and i got lucky. and it's been this thing all my ife. i have to say, i know you've heard it a lot, everybody says it, but it's true. it's luck. i remember saying once to somebody, we're all together, we're actor, i'm no better than anybody else in that way. great n people do such stuff. at the same time, a guy said, you're doing so well. why you? why not me? he said, i've always wanted this. i want this stuff. that you have. i says, yeah. you want it, i think i had to have it. charlie: wow. had to have it. pacino: that's an interesting distinction, you know. i'm just know, mouthing now. just think that -- charlie: you had to have it. pacino: i never thought it would turn into this naturally. but i knew it was my time. that i would be seen in some way. that en

a more famous older brother this is edwin booth who was a fine actor in the late 19th century. i can always tell who he is by his haircuts. this is the 1861-'62 haircut. it's funny how you can use that as well as the clothes and other things, but the haircuts are real cues about how he's doing. this is john's older sister, asia. she was not a public figure, of course, like her brothers were, but she was a pretty good writer a pretty good poet, and she wrote a secret memoir of her brother john. she wrote it about ten years after the lincoln murder. she had to hide it from her husband who i'm going to show right here. this is her husband, john sleeper clark. she had to hide it from clark because he had grown hostile to the family and a very unpleasant person to be around sort of blamed the booth family and especially john wilkes for all the problems he was having in his life. so she had to hide it, and then before she died, since she died before john sleeper clark did, she gave it out of the family to make sure he didn't find and destroy the memoir. i published the memoir separat