The Godfather Wars (an article you can't refuse)

If you love the movie The Godfather, love to hear the stories of how movies get made (especially if Francis Ford Coppola is involved) and find the workings of the mob fascinating, you really have to read this article in the new Vanity Fair about the fights over the making of The Godfather.  It's got it all, from the fights over casting Brando, Pacino and Caan, to what it took to get the real Mafia to approve of the movie and stop threatening those involved with the production, this is great stuff.  It's long for the internet--seven pages--but worth every one of them.  A friend of mine, Kate from college days, posted the link on Facebook and so I can't really give her the sort of hyperlink love I'd give a blogger, but I really enjoyed reading it and appreciate her pointing it out.  Thanks, Kate!  The Godfather Wars:

It all began in the spring of 1968, when a largely unknown writer named Mario Puzo walked into the office of Robert Evans, the head of production at Paramount Pictures. He had a big cigar and a belly to match, and the all-powerful Evans had consented to take a meeting with this nobody from New York only as a favor to a friend. Under the writer’s arm was a rumpled envelope containing 50 or 60 pages of typescript, which he desperately needed to use as collateral for cash.

Comments

[Robin]

i heard they were going to off him and his daughter for the tragedy aka godfather 3. haha

"hyperlink love"
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[g.]

Robin, I have to admit I have no idea what you're talking about! Oh, I get it--kill Francis and Sophia for Part III? Hell no--the first two are incredible, I wouldn't have him killed for going to the well once too many times. Otherwise, I'd have to off Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali, too.