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Oh, goodie, it’s another Philip Roth adaptation about an aging man awakened in life through an affair with a much younger woman! This one is based on Roth’s latest, The Humbling, and while I’m sure the writing in the novel is great as usual, I can’t help but think the movie version will be more of the same old man with hot actress erotic fantasy stuff of *The Human Stain *and Elegy](Elegy (2008) - Movie | Moviefone).
According to the New York Times, Al Pacino, who bought the rights to the book, will star as the suicidal, past-his-prime stage actor who winds up on a farm in upstate New York making it with his friends’ daughter, a 40-year-old (unless Hollywood expectantly lowers here age) with lesbian tendencies and an interest in kinky stuff like strap-ons.
Directing the picture is Barry Levinson, who has collaborated with Pacino before in different capacity. He co-wrote the 1979 legal drama *…And Justice for All](...And Justice for All (1979) - Movie | Moviefone) *and much later produced Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco](Donnie Brasco (1997) - Movie | Moviefone). More recently Levinson directed the actor in the made-for-cable Dr. Kevorkian biopic You Don’t Know Jack](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/05/26/al-pacino-to-play-dr-death-jack-kevorkian/), which will likely air on HBO early next year.
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