Acting, sexiness and late babies: why Pacino v De Niro is the daddy of all rivalries

Al Pacino will become a father again at 83. Robert De Niro, 79, just had his seventh child. What's the endgame for this fantastic actors' smackdown?

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are forever destined to be intertwined. The two greatest actors of their generation - the two greatest actors of most generations - Pacino and De Niro will spend the rest of eternity being compared. People will tie themselves up in knots over who did the best work, who was the best in The Godfather Part II, who won their first scene together in Heat, who was the least bad in Righteous Kill.

And now the comparisons have started to spill out from their professional efforts. A couple of weeks ago Twitter blew a gasket trying to work out whether Al Pacino was sexier than Robert De Niro. The competition between them is fierce, and never lets up. Just days after De Niro announced that he'd become a father again at the age of 79, Pacino has announced that he's about to become a father again at the age of 83.