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...Michael J. Coppola (R-Foxboro), one of Rappaport’s few supporters among the Massachusetts Republican House delegation, predicted he would suffer little legislative fallout from his support for the losing candidate...
...watershed was, of course, Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather films of the 1970s--as much a touchstone within the Mob as without. Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor (and Mob-movie fan), said in his gangbusting prosecutor days that you could tell the difference between surveillance tapes recorded before and after the Godfather movies came out: the hoods started speaking like characters in the films. The movies that mobsters made possible ended up remaking the mobsters...
...recent work has been confined to supporting roles. Back in 1984 she tripped up her transition to better parts by turning down the comedy Splash, which became a hit. ("I was insecure about the nudity involved in playing a mermaid," she says.) Another big break, Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 epic The Cotton Club, also starring Gere, bombed. "Becoming a movie star is a question of the right part at the right time," says Coppola, who also cast Lane in his 1983 films Rumble Fish and The Outsiders. "At any time that could have happened to her, and it could...
Lucas describes the Empire as if it were the oppressive, white-on-white Formica fascism of his first feature, the boldly bleak THX 1138. Back in 1970, Lucas and his mentor, Francis Ford Coppola, were in the vanguard of the Film Generation. They were film-school grads who hoped to remake the movie business into the art of film. Surely these kid revolutionaries would create an adult, audacious post-Hollywood cinema...
...truism about American directors: you become who you were. Coppola, the former theater director and son of a classical musician, took the arty road, making operatic, actor-centric films that sometimes (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) found large audiences. Lucas, who had written a third-grade theme that began, "Once upon a time in the land of Zoom..." and loved to tinker with cars, replayed his Modesto, Calif., adolescence in American Graffiti. Then he reworked the beloved comic books and B-movie serials of his youth into Star Wars, a film as stylized and sterile as a piece of abstract animation...