Glory rarely comes easy, and comparisons, for better or worse, have already been made to HBO's Prohibition drama "Boardwalk Empire," not to mention big screen works that have covered similar ground such as this year's "Gangster Squad" and 1997's "L.A. Confidential".
When big screen work dried up after 1965, she enjoyed two decades of great popularity on TV.
He began to draw critical attention for his big screen work the following year, adapting Ross MacDonald's detective novel The Moving Target into the popular film Harper, which starred Paul Newman.
We've talked amid the bodybuilding powders cluttering the kitchen of his rented Prague flat (where he was filming comic-book adaptation Wanted with Angelina Jolie), and in a bar in Leipzig (he was shooting Tolstoy biopic The Last Station, his sole big screen work with Duff).
With his latest big screen work he's proved he's an actor of considerable range and depth who can ably tackle complex roles – not just the sweet, unthreatening parts of his earlier career.
Clifford E. Marks, who helped broker the sponsorship in his capacity as president for sales and marketing at National CineMedia in New York, said the deal represented "the big screen and the small screen working together" in that the promotional content can also be watched on Web sites that are part of a National CineMedia network like rottentomatoes.com and traileraddict.com.
In between his big-screen work, Pacino appeared in several television productions for HBO.
The star's big-screen work in recent years has been in small supporting roles in Selma and The Butler.
This is good news for Wesley Snipes, who has become better known for tax trouble than big-screen work.
Later big-screen work included James Ivory's The Remains of the Day (1993) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (as the ghostly Bloody Baron, 2001).
During two years away from the big screen, Demme worked with Robert Altman on the TV series, Gun (1997), which, though critically acclaimed, failed to last a single season.
