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Al Pacino, who starred in Sidney Lumet’s “Dog Day Afternoon’’ and “Serpico,’’ presented the director with an honorary Oscar in 2005. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press/File) |
Sidney Lumet’s chief preoccupation wasn’t art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. Lumet died Saturday morning. He was 86, and made his first film in 1957, in his early 30s, after having spent most of the 1950s directing television — serious television. That first movie was “12 Angry Men,’’ and has there ...
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