Confession – when I first saw “Heat” in the theatre in 1995, I spent the first half of the movie believing LAPD Lt. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) and career thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) were the same person, a dirty cop/double agent playing both sides. It wasn’t until the two characters finally sat down together mid-movie (in the seminal scene that marked the mega-stars’ first-ever shared onscreen appearance) that I became aware of my admittedly asinine gaffe.
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