The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best stories of 2019 from our premium international syndicators, including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Times of London and Harvard Business Review.
This afternoon we look at the most recent collaboration between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, what it's like to grow up amid the opioid crisis, TV's quest for survival in the age of streaming, the dying Playboy brand and polyamory.
De Niro and Pacino have always connected. Just rarely on screen
In the late 1960s two rookie actors named Robert De Niro and Al Pacino first crossed paths. A half-century later the duo have provided cinema with some of its most transfixing and explosive protagonists.
The Irishman is officially only the third time they've collaborated on screen, but over the years they often turned to one another. Who else could understand?