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DIED. Frank ("Three Fingers") Coppola, 82, multimillionaire Mafia capo who was linked to murder, prostitution, gambling and drugs; of a stroke; in Aprilia, near Rome. Once a partner of "Lucky" Luciano in Detroit, the Sicilian-born Mafioso was deported as an illegal alien in 1948. In Italy he became a don of international drug trafficking. Coppola fought his deportation from the U.S., insisting that he was actually a "nice guy." U.S. Senator John McClellan disagreed, however, saying: "Even though he only has three fingers, they are involved in everything...
...moment it did not matter whether, as Coppola claimed and Paramount denied, the film company owed him $1.6 million in completion money for the film, whose budget had ballooned to the astonishing sum of $26 million. Coppola had been distressed last August when Paramount showed an incomplete print to distributors and some critics; last week he explained his Radio City gamble by saying that he simply "wanted to see the film clean one time before it went into the funnel" of the distribution system. As the preview deadline neared, Coppola made last-minute changes in the film and sent them...
...FROM THE HEART Directed by Francis Coppola Screenplay by Armyan Bernstein and Francis Coppola...
...hope and the hype surrounding Francis Coppola's latest exercise in free-fall parachuting should not obscure one fact: One from the Heart is also a movie. In any other case, and with no disrespect intended, one could say it is just a movie. No government will topple, no arms treaty will be aborted at the reception of this novelettish romance about a guy and a gal, together five years, who go on separate flings one Las Vegas Independence Day. But with the fate of Zoetrope Studios riding on this crapshoot, it may be difficult for audiences and critics...
...show-stopping amalgam of razzle and dazzle, sending skyrockets speckling over what looks like a mile-long Strip of surreal glitter. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro has lighted these sets in gloriously garish Technicolor-pulsating magentas and ambers that mirror the characters' moods even as they assert the environmental imperative. Coppola has staged his scenes in long, sensuous takes. A single shot may comprise several scenes, several planes of action and setting, while the camera glides around the ordinary hero and heroine like the young Astaire around a lamppost. They are ordinary indeed. As played by Teri Garr, Frannie...