Between 1971 and 1983, a new Al Pacino performance was an event ... On a superficial level, it's got a much more upbeat outcome than the Vietnam War, yet the latter has been grist for many ...

Tom Cruise earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for Oliver Stone’s star-spangled Vietnam War flick., but the role of Ron Kovic was supposed to be Al Pacino’s. From Vietcong diplomats ...