we're in al pacino's backyard in beverly hills.t time he was with us after much begging and cajoling was back in 1996. we thought it would be the start of hundreds of interviews, and this is the second time. we've become very close friends. we spend a lot of time together. this is only the second time on the show. let's show you a little clip of the first time from 15 years ago. >> no, don't. >> larry: watch. why have you finally come? >> i've come here? >> larry: yes, finally, after years of asking. >>y is nihility, i guess. >> why do you dislike interviews? >> well, i don't -- i think it's because it starts with the whole idea of being an actor, which is something that is a kind of -- the anonymity of an actor. the more anonymous you are, the easier it is for an audience to accept you in a role. i think it starts -- it starts there. and it's also basically because i think i'm somewhat shy. >> larry: you still feel that way? do you still feel -- >> yeah, i do. but i'm so shy now, i wear sunglasses everywhere i go. >> larry: you pl

here is al pacino as shylock. >> if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us shall we not revenge? if we are like you and the rest, we will resemble you in death. if a jew wrong a christian? what is his humility. revenge. in f a christian wrong a jew, what should his suffer being? by christian example. why resfleng thevilleny you teach me i will execute and it shall go hard but i will better instruction! >> rose: alongside ma p.a. chino lily rabb bay has what may be a brilliant breakout performance. >> i may neither choose nor refuse. so is the will of a living daughter curved by the will of a dead father. is it not hard that i cannot choose one nor refuse none. >> your father was ever virtuous and have good inspiration. will no doubt never be chosen by any rightly but one who you shall rightly love. >> rose: lily rain joins with us the play's director daniel sullivan. i am pleased to have them at this table to talk about an extraordinary level of performance as well as direction which has been receiving extraordinary press: nice to see you

i don't believe in god, nibble al pacino. why is that? because he has done so much for me indirectly. i don't... he didn't know what he was doing but through his performances, through his style, through his respect to the craft through his compromise with the work has helped me to love my job in a way that nobody has. because at his age, after doing all the amazing marvelous thing he is has done as an actor, he's still working. he's a man of work. and that's... >> rose: on stage every night in "merchant of venice." >> here you go, for example. >> rose: at his age. do you study his films? do you look at him and watch it and say how did he do that? >> i say how in the world does he do that? yes. the other day i was watching "serpico" for the 50th time. >> rose: "serpico" for the 50th time. >> yeah. and he's there so young doing so risky things being that young and i think how... i mean, how brilliant is that? when he did "dog day afternoon", that's amazing. how in the world he could do that when he was 30 years old. i have been 30 years old

pacino, who did the work, can describe to you what he saw. he had the sewer department with him when he did the work. i think it will be a little bit clearer that this is not so obviously a problem with mr. jacobsen's property. it is clearly much more a problem with the city's property. i have a letter from mr. jacobs said that he prepared before he left that explains what has happened over the years. at the back is a picture that was taken last week that shows this to which -- shows the sewage coming out. as i said, this picture was taken last week. this was subsequent to the work completed and finalized. as you can see, there is still a problem. now i would like to have mr. patino come up and explain what he did. >> on august 18, i got the permit to do the work. i called for inspection, and asked the inspector to give me a correction notice of what he wanted me to do specifically. at that time, i did not know what they wanted me to do. he wanted me to replace the existing two way cleanout. then basically when i was speaking with him, i call

al pacino is here monday night. now "ac 360." you're there. >> larry: carlos slim. al pacino is here monday night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning, we are expecting president obama to be back home within the next half hour after his quick unannounced trip to afghanistan. and this is what's waiting on him when he gets home. >>> and uptick in the unemployment rate. >>> also, a rare saturday on his saturday tax cuts. >>> as, a rare tax cut. welcome home, mr. president. a long-awaited trade bill with south korea, all of these stories have a direct impact on your wallet and your job security and they are all developing live right here this morning. good morning to you all. this is your "cnn saturday morning" 6:00 a.m. where i stand, in arkansas, wherever you may be, glad you're right here. i'm t.j. holmes. let me tell you what else we've got in the next 90 minutes. paradise lost in a florida town, built by the happiest people on earth, the disney team. this town has now recorded its first homicide in its history. that happened this week. just days

al pacino told me the other day he's one of the best actors he's ever worked with. how did you feel about him? >> i absolutely stand by that. i agree. he's one of the best actors i've ever had the privilege of working with. i think he's often seen -- i think we think of him in all these kind of wild extravagant roles. these eccentric personalities. behind that, where that comes from is somebody who's such a renaissance man who loves to paint who loves to do music, who is so bold in his choices. you know, if you think about it, there's just nobody else out there like him at all. nobody comes close to him when it comes to that kind of character work. so he's wonderful. >> larry: you liked him right away? >> i did. i did. -- started talking about kids right away so we have a lot in common. >> larry: in an interview he did in "vanity fair" he said getting to know you was a real pleasant surprise. he described you as incredibly normal. i guess people are shocked to know that. i know you. you are incredibly normal. why do you think people are surprised at that? >> oh, i t

>> then there's the part where he learned abramoff does impressions of clinton and reagan and al pacino. all the news and commentary now on "countdown." >> i'm the super lobbyist. >>> good evening from new york. this is thursday, december 16th, 691 days until the 2012 presidential election. breaking news at this hour. senate majority leader harry reid just polled the omnibus spending bill that would have funded the government for the next calendar year. this leaves the government technically speaking without any funding. reid said nine republicans, complaining about earmarks, some marked by republicans, that reneged on their commitments to support that omnibus. the house on the road to ramming through a trillion dollars in tax cuts that our kids will have to pay for. democrats battling republicans, battling democrats. in the final days of the 111th congress. we begin with $858 billion in tax cuts expected to pass the house tonight. debate beginning hours after how house leadership would give progressive democrats their opportunity to open the bill and force the new version back to the s

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al pacino is here monday night. al pacino is here monday night. now "ac 360." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thanks, larry, and thank you for watching. i'm randi kaye. anderson cooper has the night off. tonight with unemployment rising and jobless benefits expiring, what are your elected officials doing about it? one says working with republicans is almost like negotiating with terrorists. yet another is pushing for online gaming. there sure are a lot of people not doing any work these days. we're keeping the ones in washington honest. also tonight, a different take on repealing don't ask, don't tell. some of the military service chiefs raising concerns, all of them saying they'll make the change if the senate acts. one big name republican skeptic changing his views on lifting the law. and later the town that disney built, white picket fences and now yellow crime scene tape. why there is no celebration in celebration, florida, tonight. >>> we begin as always keeping them honest. tonight politicians on both sides of the aisle fighting ov

stole $7.5 million from a 91-year-old widower in new york and went -- >> larry: he also stole from al pacino many others. ken starr is not the ken starr of the clinton -- hold on. let me clarify. the ken starr he's referring to is not the ken starr who is now out at pepperdine college here in los angeles and not the guy involved in -- >> no, we're not referring to the special prosecutor ken starr. >> larry: that ken starr is not this ken starr. wes, before we bring in judge brown, if these certs fail and these last-minute appeals fail, are you nervous? >> i think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake, larry. given the length of time that they are suggesting that i be away from my family, away from my profession, away from my ability to provide for my family and for those who have depended upon me to contribute to society, the good will through the works that we do and the productions that we have. i think anyone would be nervous about that. but right now, larry, i'm more upset and disappointed that the system seems to not be working for me in this situation. and i -- >> larry:

al pacino is here monday night. >> good evening. i'm kathleen parker. >> and i'm eliot spitzer. welcome to the program. coming up, a stunning proposal by lindsey graham, a leading republican senator. he says we should be in afghanistan forever. i mean, forever. send our military men over there and never bring them home. you're not going to believe it when we talk to him. >> you can count on a south carolinian to be provocative. >>> we have a grim jobs market. it turns bleaker. does any party have any ideas of bringing jobs into this country? we'll ask dick durbin. >> it is two quagmires we're facing. afghanistan first. it is an ugly picture of corruption running rampant. karzai taking money from everybody. the good news, the president went over there to visit the troops, always a good thing to do. on the other hand, we've been fighting this war longer an any war in american history. they said we're going it be there at least till 2014. the regime we're propping up is as corrupt as anything the world has seen or known. al qaeda left to go to pakistan. i don't know why we're there

. >> rose: a program note, our session on "merchant of venice" which is now on broadway with al pacino will be seen later this week. tonight david sanger, ian bremmer, carolyn maloney and josh tyrangiel when we continue. maybe you want school kids to have more exposure to the arts. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer, or donate for the causes you believe in at membersproject.com. take charge of making a difference. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin this evening with tensions in the korean peninsula. south korea convicted live fire military exercises today in disputed waters off the north korean coast. the drills came in response to a series of provocations from north korea over the past year. last spring, north korea sang a south korean warship, killing 46 crew members. last month, the country samed abartillery barrage at a so

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they used to have that stylized al pacino in the corner and they have gotten rid of even that little bit of decorative flourish, and you know it probably is one of the reasons why do you can take off as much in indonesia as in chile and the united states, because it's sort of is a very nonjudgmental, nonlocalized kind of look. it is just like tex, light background and a little bit of blue and black text. >> in follow-on to his question and comment, what they did do with the design change about a year or so ago, there was a lot of user outrage over people don't like change. >> they keep moving around the feeds here in their. >> people didn't like it and they didn't want changes. i think it was significant enough that it threw people off. >> yeah it did in there was a lot of protest over that. and then it went away. [inaudible] >> people just get really cranky about a. >> but they also get over it. that is the weird thing. if they went back to the old way, we would be annoyed about that. you know, in fact i talked in the book about this group of facebook employees that they created at