The Godfather

Re: I didn't care for the Godfather...

source: imdb.com

The Godfather is a masterpiece down to the composed music for it. Brando is amazing, so is Duvall and Pacino. It is the only gangster movie better than Goodfellas but they are different kinds of gangster films. Godfather II is an amazing film also.

Published Sun, Aug 16

'Havana' Revisited: An American Gangster in Cuba

source: NPR

This book that you've written deals with a period in the '50s mostly, when the American mob had its way in Havana, and I thought we would begin by listening to a clip from the movie "The Godfather II," which focuses on this period, and this is a scene ...

Published Fri, Jun 5

Steve Lewis Interviews 'The Mad Ones' Author Tom Folsom

source: BlackBook Magazine

The Godfather was coming out right at this time, so I think anybody who was anybody wanted to meet a real life gangster, so that was really Joey's chance to play up the hill. There's a scene in The Godfather 2 where Joey Pantangali is attacked inside ...

Published Thu, Jun 4

Mob Scene at J. Crew! Author Tom Folsom Conjures Racketeers Among ...

source: New York Observer

 NY This is literary in the wake of The Godfather. You know, three weeks before he gets killed, The Godfather is out, so it's a phenomenon. Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the scene. ...

Published Tue, Jun 2

Chester church to hold free piano concert on Saturday

source: ic CheshireOnline

 UK From Bach and Chopin to Satie and Jenkins, there will be classical and film music to suit every mood, spiced with perennial favourites such as the theme tune from the iconic gangster movie, The Godfather. The event will also offer a rare opportunity to ...

Published Mon, Jun 1

Why I shopped my son - killer's mum

source: Norfolk Eastern Daily Press

Why I shopped my son - killer's mum  UK He described the method in which Mr Everitt was killed - beaten, kidnapped and tied to a tree before being doused in petrol and set alight - as akin to something from gangster movie The Godfather. Speaking after the case, Ms Lewis told the EDP: “It was ...

Published Fri, May 29

AP on TV: Brian Williams and Deer Tick? No, not the insect

source: San Marcos Daily Record

 TX Coppola were writing this script, we'd have to consider a 'summit' meeting of the heads of the major online music families at a New York restaurant, so we respect each other's turf," Williams said. "As Hyman Roth (a gangster in 'The Godfather Part ...

Published Fri, May 22

Through the keyhole at the lavish £1.6m house of jailed gangster ...

source: Daily Mail - UK

And the portrait of Al Pacino in The Godfather is the clincher - for this is the home of London crime boss Terry Adams, currently doing time for money laundering. The house in leafy Mill Hill, North London, has been put up for sale with an asking price ...

Published Wed, May 20