[nickcarraway]

It was so bad the commissary made him eat the gun, and let the cannoli go to waste.

[ETL]

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"In between his stints in Washington, Emanuel got rich working as an investment banker. He once sat on the board of Freddie Mac and recuses himself from any Congressional votes on the mortgage giant."

"Has been known to send out cheesecakes from Eli's Bakery in Chicago to campaign donors and the many Democratic candidates he has recruited over the years. Once, when a pollster made him angry, Emanuel sent him a dead fish."

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856965,00.html
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(Sonny opens a package to find two fish wrapped in Luca's bulletproof vest.)

Sonny: What the hell is this?

Pete Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Godfather
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YouTube video clip: "Leave the gun. Take the cheesecake cannoli" (8 second clip)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EJnEXuUR54&NR=1
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[prosecutor] Fitzgerald: "In the governor words -- governor's words, quote, 'Fire all those bleeping people. Get them the bleep out of there. And get us some editorial support', close quote."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/politics/09text-illinois.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
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MICHAEL CORLEONE:
Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop -- that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a... a dishonest cop -- a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. That's a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom?

[Hagen nods in the affirmative]

http://www.jgeoff.com/godfather/gf1/transcript/gf1transcript.html<

[EveningStar]

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[mysterio]

I love that movie and part II. Part III I’ve seen, and I admit I enjoyed it, but it probably shouldn’t have been made.

[GOP Poet]

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[oh8eleven]

The movie was great, but the book was even better. I’ll bet I read it three or four times.

[Mr. Blonde]

The AMC in town plays classics in the fall. The Godfather is on the list of movies. I’m very excited.

One thing from the article. I thought the surviving test footage of Robert De Niro was him testing for Sonny and not Michael.

It is funny to think that this is from the age of directors having more control over the films they made compared to today.

[Yossarian]

A crazy thing about the Godfather book is the long plot element about a woman with a distressing genital issue. (Sonny’s the only one in the world gifted enough to help her - nudge nudge, wink wink.)

It was briefly alluded to in a wordless way in the movie, during the wedding reception.

[Michael.SF.]

Coppola objected to casting his sister, Talia Shire, as Connie Corleone, yelling at their mother that Shire was too pretty.

Well, Coppola was certainly wrong on that part about her being "too pretty".

The real reason she got the part, according to Jenny Jones excellent book, "The Godfather: The Annotated Complete Script", was that Coppola thought he was going to be fired, so he gave her the part so as to keep a few bucks in the family.

[JoeProBono]

[angkor]

“It was just non-stop anxiety and wondering when I was going to get fired.”

Sounds like another (great) Coppola film, Apocalypse Now.

[Southern Partisan]

Recently read that Puzo said late in life something like... “If I had known it would be such a big deal, I would have written it better.”

[Borges]

Like “Gone With the Wind,” “The Godfather” film is essentially a study in vanishing feudalism: the old, aristocratic masters who made their empires out of sweat and blood are fading into the background, to be replaced by the middle-class, mercantile interests represented in “Gone With the Wind” by the blockade runner Rhett Butler and in the first “Godfather” by the drug-dealing upstart Sollozzo.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Several USC Cinema School friends and I attended the premiere at noon on a weekday on Hollywood Blvd. (might have been the Egyptian theatre). When we came out at three, the line was full not only for the 3:00 but also for the 6:00!

[KosmicKitty]

May I be first..

“Leave the gun, take the cannolis”

Best movie line, EVER!!!

[lowbridge]

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