Posted on 12/16/2015 3:32:44 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
Kirby is gone now too.
He was great in “Good Morning Vietnam”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Ty3fggeBA
And yes, he IS still alive.
He was great.
BTTT.
no OMERTA .... no MAFIA
simple as that
and the drugs and greed took em down
becasue drugs brings the feds
and they are very expensive to buy (FBI / JUDGES / DEA) and lots of them
much more than the local flatfoot .......
now drugs are run from the white house ..... its one of the perks....
sinaloa / white house ... partners in crime
Good Point!
Actually, Borgnine could have pulled it off. Think of him in 'The Dirty Dozen' and not McCales Navy. He was Italian, (a Coppola requirement) as well (Ermes Borgino).
The Don was one of the most coveted roles at the time with Kirk Douglas and Danny Thomas actively pursuing it.
I put them in my top five, with Part II slightly ahead, mainly because of the old scenes. I think one could do a good essay: All you need to know about life, you can learn from the Godfather.
He was a hell of an actor.
Look at his work in Marty (1955) for which he won an academy award.
Many people think of him as a comedic actor, but he had a great range.
He would have been the correct age for Vito as well (55).
Really doesn't matter, because Brando owned the role.
I just finished reading I Heard You Paint Houses, the Frank Sheeran story and confession of how he killed his friend, Jimmy Hoffa. His story on the Hoffa killing seems quite plausible. Apparently, the FBI had always tabbed Sheeran as the most likely suspect in Hoffa's disappearance.
In the book, Sheeran claimed to be the sole gunman who took out Joey Gallo on the orders of Russell Bufalino. I suppose that it is possible but that story doesn't seem to have quite the same credibility as his claims to have killed Hoffa.
I remember watching Letterman — back when he was still funny, and back when restaurants had smoking (and non-smoking) sections — just after the shooting. On the air, IIRC, he called Sparks Steakhouse and tried to make a reservation in “non-shooting.”
In 1985, I was nowhere near there. I was living up in Boston at that time. But I remember reading about the shooting. So many books have been written about it since. Around that same time, the Angiulo family in Boston was being taken down by the FBI. You can say that the early 1980s were the last of the glory years for the mafia.
I've been to eat at Sparks steakhouse. A bit stuffy and expensive but you've got to do it at least once if you are in the city. I prefer going to the Palm Too which is another block over on 2nd Ave. In both places, the appetizers are meals in themselves.
I always thought it a shame they hit Paul C. on the way in instead of on the way out. He never got to have his last proper meal.
Absolutely. I only mentioned Dirty Dozen because I thought more people would recall that role over his others.
Now you just made me want to see that one again!
“I will bet revenues doubled at that place during the following weeks.”
That’d be a good plot for a dark comedy. Guy(s) running a struggling Italian eatery try to arrange a mob hit in their place to boost sales.
Yeah, it needs work, but it could happen...
“I think I read that the studio wanted Ernest Borgnine for the role. Can you imagine?”
No harder to imagine than IIRC, Eddie Murphy’s role in Beverly Hills Cop originally being written with Sylvester Stallone in mind.
“Kirby is gone now too”
I was shocked when I heard he had died, Leukemia. Its been over nine years now. Also a good funny man, he was in When Harry Meet Sally and City Slickers.
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