Pacino once asked DeNiro to buy him a cup of coffee in 1995, one of the single greatest, most captivating scenes in movie history. It also happens to be my single favorite movie of all time. Hyperbole doesn’t feel the least bit overused when you’re talking about these two titans of Hollywood, acting together for the first time on screen, considering that they never shot a scene together in the second Godfather film and most of the movies they did together after this were subpar. So I figured, while I’m in the area, I’ll stop off and see whether the restaurant where they filmed this scene was still around. Maybe I’d buy a cup of coffee myself. Turns out, the diner just closed its doors, permanently, in the aftermath of COVID.
