Pacino and D'Angelo Expecting Twins

Sept. 13 -- After all those mob movies, it’s hardly surprising to hear that graying Godfather great Al Pacino and girlfriend Beverly D’Angelo are in a family way. Not only that, it’s twins!

Break out the cigars, dude.

Gossip columnist Mitchell Fink of the New York Daily News saysD’Angelo is due around the end of the year. Pacino, 60, and D’Angelo havebeen stepping out together for about three years now. It was actuallysupermarket staple The National Enquirer that broke the story of thelittle Pacinos, and the tab claims that Beverly (whose age is variouslygiven as 45 or 48) is expecting a boy and a girl.

Might there be wedding bells in their future? The never-married Pacino hasbeen one of Hollywood’s more notorious confirmed bachelors for years,whereas D’Angelo (perhaps best known for playing Chevy Chase’s put-upon wifein all those Vacation flicks) was married for 11 years to Italianduke Lorenzo Salviati.

Directing PlansIn other news of all things Pacino, the star recently revealed to reporters that, in the early years of his acting career, he nearly followed the example set by Marion Morrison and Archibald Leach.

Who?

John Wayne and Cary Grant, of course. Addressing a packed press conference at the Toronto Film Festival — where his sophomore directorial effort, Chinese Coffee, is making its world premiere — Pacino said that he once considered using the screen moniker Sonny Scott.

“When I was a young kid, and you were going into acting, you weren’t supposed to have a vowel at the end of your name,” he explained. “It was just a natural thing that you’d have to change your last name.”

Chinese Coffee is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Ira Lewis. Pacino, who played the lead role on Broadway, also stars in the film, as a struggling novelist who gets more honesty than he bargained for when he asks his mentor (Law & Order’s Jerry Orbach) for a critical appraisal of his latest work.