[Chuzzlewit]

interesting read..

[Vaquero]

are we going to Jersey?

try the veal....its the best in the city.

[FTJM]

"You're not cutting it kid." Interesting...who did Coppola want to replace him?

I've always thought Duval, and Caan to a lesser extent, were miscast.

[NormsRevenge]

70. wow.

Godfather V: The Party Begins

[dead]

Al Pacino was great in both Godfathers and Dog Day Afternoon.

He's been a hammy, one-note bore ever since though.

Whoooo-yah!!

[Frantzie]

This story has been told before but in a different way. The studio execs were on Coppolla’s back constantly to fire Al. Al looks like pee wee herman in the screen tests. Really young and pasty white. He looked and sounded really wimpy in the tests.

Coppola supposedly shot the restaurant scene and scenes later in the film to sabotage the studio execs from firing Al.

[The Comedian]

Pacino's replacement: Morgan Freeman

or possibly Cher.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[USS Alaska]

I think the old drunk is hallucinating, the shooting scene in the restaurant {if shot in order} was after the wedding, the shooting of Vito, the hospital scenes, the fish in the vest, the "going to the mats", in other words, too far into the movie to replace Michael.

Pacino was probably stoned, and Coppolla told him to take a shower and a steam bath, and get sober for the next shoot.

I love him as an actor but he's always been a prima dona and now that he's getting ready to find out if there's really is a God and if Pacino's really the devil, he's starting to get scared.

[a fool in paradise]

Talking about his battle with drink, he said, 'I didn't defeat it that's all you can say. I just don't drink.'

Hey, Al. Lay off the cocaine.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I agree - I don’t think this is new news. Also Coppola came close to getting fired as well. All of this shows, I think, that most of these decisions are crap shoots at the time. They only look like genius after the fact. Every now and then a movie captures lightening in the bottle and Godfather was one such time. But while it was being shot, it looked like the usual crapola.

[Mobties]

“...in my bedroom, where my wife sleeps, where my children come to play with their toys...”

[dfwgator]

And frankly, how could Michael handle Kay after being with this?

I cry everytime I see the car blow up.

[mmercier]

The only meaner animal than a dry drunk is a sober liberal.

I have more respect for a man who fires me without cause than a man who does not, with cause I readily demonstrate when allowed opportunity through his inability to manage personnel.

I generally devolve when left to my own devices... If my boss accepts such, so be it. The crap left to me today is nothing compared to what was available to me in the past.

Tonight, we (I, a waiter and buss boy) are going to make pressure devices out of coke bottles/muriatic/tinfoil in the parking lot. You need to bring up the children properly. It is not my fault the boss left the acid in a place where I could find it, is it...? If the boss hid the muriatic, we will just fall back to menthos and diet coke..

I need to change jobs anyhow, unless they let me blow up stuff in the back lot. How much does my new life suck.

[DollyCali]

HELP! my ping lost is gone

A couple days ago when I last pinged the list I erred in doing cut/paste rather than copy/paste. (that is whay I wanted a back up person)

so will try to remember & check past threads for at least a starter list

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This is who I have on my newly "throw together from memory" list.

Perdogg; evening star; borges; Mrk; blondie; altura; mylife; mamabear; jackdeth;Dr. Scarpetta;starman417;wtc911; swmobuffalo; rummyfan; tax-chick; ls;JoeProBono; joe6 pack;MHGinTN;re_nortex ;

[NonValueAdded]

Note that in all the discussion, no one ever mentions poor Fredo.

Michael Corleone: That's the way Pop wanted it.

Fredo Corleone: It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!

John Cazale played Fredo very well.

[Elwood P. Doud]

I’ve read elsewhere that it was because Pacino was so stiff and bland. Hard to believe, given the scenery chewer he became.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Obama is the answer to why the Corelone’s NEVER put Fredo in charge of the family.

[dfwgator]

I still love the expression on The Turk’s face when Hagen says that he won’t be able to hold back Luca Brasi, right before he says, “Yeah, well, let me worry about Luca.”

[PhilDragoo]

The Godfather - Michael Kills Sollozzo

[trisham]

I recently bought and viewed "Godfather" and "Godfather II" on Blu-ray, the "Sapphire Series". I can't recommend it highly enough. If, like me, you watch it every time it's on TV, give yourself a wonderful Christmas present with these two classic, beautifully remastered versions.

I did not buy "Godfather III", which is dreadful, imho.