Posted on 10/23/2013 10:40:02 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW YORK, - Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo confirmed he has ended his decades-long boycott against "The Godfather" and watched the 1972 film.
Cuomo, 81, long refused to watch Francis Ford Coppola's film due to his vocal opposition to stereotyping Italian-Americans as being involved in organized crime. But he said Sunday at the 2013 Forum Film Festival at the Forum on Law, Culture and Society at Fordham Law School in New York that he has finally watched the movie, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Cuomo admitted that "maybe this thing was a masterpiece."
The former governor, speaking on a panel that also included Larry King, said the film was "great, if you're referring to artistry." However, he said he stands by his criticism that "The Godfather" and similar works deliver a "horrible" message by depicting Italian-Americans as sanctioning murder and breaking the law in the pursuit of revenge.
"You demean our system of law and order by saying if you want to get justice you mow down the bums," Cuomo said.
Mario Cuomo... What a douche.
Totally. I guess Cuomo has never watched a movie in which an Italian or Italian-American committed a crime?
Of course there were Irish in the mobs too.
Cuomo, 81, long refused to watch Francis Ford Coppola’s film due to his vocal opposition to stereotyping Italian-Americans as being involved in organized crime.
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How ironic. Since Cuomo is a stereotype of elitist grifting Italian American goombah sleazebag politicians.
Reminds me of when Gennifer Flowers thought Cuomo was a Mafioso.
Got a problem with my family Mario?
agreed, buuttt.....
as an American of Italian descent i have no problem with the Godfather and could care less about the Soprano’s....what annoys me is the hypocrisy of it all...
politicians and others were all up in arms over the Seinfeld Puerto Rican day parade episode....gosh forbid you say something negative about the muzzie....you can’t use the name Redskins....but the Godfather is somehow accepted...
Guess the Cuomos did not want to see the power behind their power.
He’ll boycott a movie but defend to the hilt the murder of the unborn.
Maledetto disgraziato: PENTITI!
Hey,Hyman Roth and Moe Greene were big honchos also.
Should Jews be offended?
(See my tagline)
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(...and he is!)
The Cuomo crime family just doesn’t want the competition.
Wasn’t Cuomo the head of one of the largest crime syndicates (New York State Government) at one time?
“We’re both part of the same hypocrisy, Governor.”
liberal Jews are offended by everything...
here’s a question; what would the response be to a TV/Movie series centered on a bunch of tax cheating, scheming Jewish accountants???
This is one movie I never get tired of watching. My vote for greatest ever.
Don’t forget Jews, Poles, Chinese, Japanese, Lebanese, and Russian, among others.
I loved when said that. My late mom too.
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