Big time star Al Pacino taking another shot at TV? (He won a 2004 best-actor Emmy, you might recall, for HBO's Angels in America).

Yep. He likes the pace of TV work, one reason he signed up for another HBO film, You Don't Know Jack. He plays Dr. Death, Jack Kevorkian. The film's skedded in spring.

"There’s something about going fast that catches you up, and sometimes it creates a certain spontaneity," Pacino told the critics. "But, you know, you’re going fast with highly tuned people who are there and are with it, and they’re not going so fast that they’re negligent."

"At one point we did 16 -- 16! -- scenes in two days, so that, to me, is a lot of stuff in two days." Two or three scenes a day is the norm in a feature film. "But at the same time, it was exciting. ... You do get very tired sometimes when you’re sitting around for hours in movies, so, sort of, you get depleted. Here, that doesn’t happen."

Pacino stars with John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and Brenda Vaccaro, and how do you like that lineup? Vaccaro, who plays Kevorkian's sister, was a hoot and half at the Press Tour, walking around the hotel in those little slippers women get when they have a pedicure.

"I think Al is right about the energy and the vibration of working that fast," she said. "And it’s intense. It’s intense. ... I found it exciting. ... I think they waste an enormous amount of time in movies sometimes with the lighting and with this and that and the other, so the actor dissipates. It’s almost an occupational hazard."