an imagined pic of what Shelley
dating Al Pacino would have looked like
(let's hope real paparazzi pics
of them together would surface)
In 1980, after a year in the hit TV series Charlie's Angels, Shelley was ready to move on. She first tackled stage in the plays Vanities and Close Ties and won critical praise for her efforts. Then in late 1981, she got the part of a lifetime... a supporting role in the Martin Scorsese film The King of Comedy opposite Robert De Niro. She began filming in New York with Scorsese and De Niro. It was widely reported that, by that time, De Niro had already introduced Shelley to his good friend Al Pacino - and the two had hit it off and started dating. Both stars have always been very private with regards to their personal lives, but reports of them being seen together around New York started cropping up. (For more, check out: Pacino and the Angel and Shelley and Pacino)
an Italian-language writeup
about Shelley and Al Pacino's
budding romance in the early 1980s
In March of 1982, a writeup about Shelley and Al Pacino came out in the magazine Albo Bliz Cinema - an Italian magazine that featured comics, columns about cinema and showbiz, writeups about prominent personalities, as well as pinups. In the mag's section called "Ciak Si Sussarra" (which translates as "Clapperboard Whispers"), Shelley and Al's relationship was written about. The writeup translates as follows:
Shelley Hack Is Al Pacino's New "Angel"
Robert De Niro certainly never imagined that introducing the blonde and sophisticated Shelley Hack to his friend and colleague Al Pacino, 30, would transform Pacino's life. But instead it did. Shelley, 23, who was one of "Charlie's Angels" for a season, landed a small part in the movie that De Niro will be starring in, "The King of Comedy" with Jerry Lewis. And Shelley was around during the presentation of the film to the press. "When Al saw her and spoke to her, he was transformed. He had a dazed expression on his face, a silly smile on his lips, and he even stopped drinking the wine he had in his glass. He had such a big crush on her, poor Al," said Bobby De Niro. Let's hope it's big enough to make him stop drinking.
