Charlie Rose with Henry Cisneros; Mario Puzo; Drew Nieporent (July 26, 1996)
Tom McMahon (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
From the EInsiders.com obituary of Al Martino: Anthony Bruno wrote in “Fact and Fiction in ‘The Godfather’”: “In "The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions," Mario Puzo describes a couple of unpleasant encounters he had with singer Frank Sinatra, who was...
49 Writers (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
I was so looking forward to writing this post today, and then hit one of those morning glitches -- a vandal broke into my p.o. box, the post office wants me to report what was stolen but besides a mystery package (from who? from where?) I can't know what's missing because I don't know what was there in the first place! (Pant, pant; recover.) But the world is still a nice place with good people, as...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
fetor \FEE-tuhr; FEE-tor\, noun: A strong, offensive smell; stench. Fetor comes from Latin foetor, from foetere, "to stink." cactus legs the feeling on a woman's legs as a result of not having shaved. --Steve is mad at me! --why? --cuz last nite, he wanted to touch my legs and i didnt let him --why? --cuz, i got cactus legs, i haven't shaved in a week! Trivia What famous novel provided the...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Not entirely intentional French theme to today's events: Napoleon began his exile on St. Helena in 1815. Alfred Dreyfus was arrested on charges of spying in 1894. Mata Hari was executed at Vincennes in 1917. Pierre Laval was executed in 1945 and the Great Storm of 1987 slammed France and England with winds up to 100 knots and air pressure equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane, leaving 22 dead. Born...
A Large Regular (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Roman Polanski as a Godfather Character It occurred to me that there are many parallels between Roman Polanski and the fictional Jack Woltz from Mario Puzo's book The Godfather . From the Jack Woltz Wikipedia entry : In the novel, Woltz is portrayed as a man who has achieved great success in the film industry, having come up from nothing.... It is also revealed that he is a pedophile who routinely...
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/6189162/The-Godfather-Nobody-enjoyed-one-day-of-it.html The Godfather: 'Nobody enjoyed one day of it’ Just like the film, the making of 'The Godfather’ was an ugly story of fear and dysfunction. Philip Horne 22 Sep 2009 What was the formula that made The Godfather one of the most successful films of all time? Surely it would take an...
The Glass Walking-Stick (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
.....was the opportunity to see The Godfather on the big screen last night. So I adjusted my fedora, stuck my hand deep into my trenchcoat pocket to make it look like I was packing some heat, and caught the "L" downtown to the local movie emporium, avoiding cops and mooks on the way. Anyway, back in the real world, The Godfather is one of my favourite movies of all time. An absolute masterclass...
MINUS MILO : A LOST ART (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
So tonight I gained a rather special privilege along with my paps to watch a special preview showing of The Godfather on the big screen. The gangster epic that redefined American cinema returns to the big screen, for one night . After watching the three hour epic, it made me realise just how much movie development has changed in the past thirty years or so, and just how much of a classic this movie...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Bada-bing. For some people, The Godfather is no mere movie but a manual – a guide to living the gangster's life. They lap up all that stuff about going to the mattresses and sleeping with the fishes. The famous scene in which a mafia refusenik wakes up next to a horse's head may be macabre make-believe, but in some quarters it's treated like a tutorial. So who are these apparent innocents taking...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
I was talking about mob fiction the other night and, as a few readers pointed out, forgot to comment on The Godfather. What can I say? One and three are masterpieces. There's an excellent article about it in the London Telegraph this morning: The Godfather: 'Nobody enjoyed one day of it’ Just like the film, the making of 'The Godfather’ was an ugly story of fear and dysfunction. By Philip...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Today's post is supposed to feature a book that we have read that we discovered on another blog. I was looking through my list and there were so many that I read as a result of reading reviews on other blogs that I decided to share some of them with you briefly. When possible I have listed the blogs where I originally saw each book. Unfortunately I don't recall where I first discovered all of them,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Events in Nigeria read like some fast-paced, spell-binding political thrillers, as well crafted by the likes of Jeffery Archer or the late Mario Puzo. The plot is tight. The characters are real and mean. The good-natured, patriotic heroes are up in arms against the die-hard villains ready to cheat, blackmail or even kill at the drop of a hat, so far the price is right.
Boggartblog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Another from the Only In America skip. A friend pointed me to this report on a U.S. Christian news site. Gay Man Sues God For Mental Anguish . As always we warn you should not take anything you read on Boggart Blog any more seriously than you would take things you read in minstream media. The gay man in question is not actually suing God but only we suspect because lawyers have not been able to serve...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Francis Ford Coppola is a director often remembered for launching his career with his blockbuster adaptation of Mario Puzo's The Godfather (1972), continuing through two other noteworthy films, and essentially committing career suicide by following his filmmaking dreams and going...
Head Nurse (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
The best song ever. In the history of the world. Period. No argument. All you Flogging Molly and Gentle Giant and Celine Dion fans can just go home now. My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors Well you should see my story-reading baby, you should hear things that she says She says "Hon, drop dead, I'd rather go to bed with Gabriel Garcia Marquez" Cuddle up with William S. Burroughs, leave on the...
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