You know, though, I gotta say....remember Al Pacino was such a heart throb, just a beautiful man when he was younger. He aged very fast also. Who seeing him today would even recognize as the take away beauty in, say, the GODFATHER movie.
Shep can be very annoying, but I'll never forget the day he was on when rescue crews were trying to retrieve a dog from the Los Angeles river . It was a very tense situation, as there was concern the attempts would fail and the dog wouldn't survive. All the cable news channels had extended live coverage(went on for a couple of hours)----even commercial delays. Shep didn't want to break from the dog he called "Fido", and contributed some levity for the audience's sake with his humorous comments. I have to say that did endear him to me a bit.
I've noticed his appearance in recent months, too, and I hope he is okay.