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Al Pacino is releasing his first memoir, Sonny Boy , this month .
The actor grew up poor, and was well into making his way onto the wrong of the tracks.
He spent his early years in the South Bronx , but his acting talent was noticed by a teacher at school.
Al Pacino's new memoir, " Al Pacino ," is published by Simon Cowell .
The actor says he's not above the occasional outburst of insanity.
Cowell : Pacino sees himself as a kid who got very lucky, not as someone with an innate star power.
He writes that his craft is everything to him.
To see Pacino on screen is to see someone who feels somehow more alive than the people around him.
There are clues for the reader of Sonny Boy to where that vivid quality might have come from.
Pacino as narrator in Sonny Boy has a persistent lust for life, and seems amazed by his own luck.
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