Working my way through a truly embarrassing backlog of magazines -- like, 2023 coverlines on a few of them -- I only last week came across the excerpt from Al Pacino's memoir, "Early Scenes," in an August issue of The New Yorker. He and his editor did a great job fitting it into TNY's hallowed pages while keeping Pacino's voice strong; it's a fun read.

Then I remembered that ol' Patch had been kicking around on my future BET-CRP list for ages. Let's see how high he scores on the Best Evidence True-Crime Résumé Percentage, shall we? As always, I guess beforehand where the number will come in, and I'm betting Pacino's is pretty high, but not DiCaprio high -- so, around 40 percent.

Need a refresher on how we score these? Here you go...and here we go.

• N.Y.P.D. S02.E05, "A Deadly Circle of Violence" (1968). It's tempting to give Pacino's very first IMDb entry a point based on the episode's plot summary -- "Militant students blame a southerner for the bombing of a black church" -- but aside from the miserable fact that this could be based on any number of IRL cases, I can't justify it here: 0