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I know I won't miss the sleaze: the selling of the Lincoln bedroom, the shakedowns of Chinese arms dealers and the after-hours frolics in the Oval Office. Nor will I miss the policies, from the self-righteous "gays in the military" gambit, to Hillary's baggy monster of...
There’s some Corleone in all of us. A Godfather analogy: “I don’t want my brother coming out of the bathroom with just his dick in his hands,” says Sonny Corleone. His brother Michael, the youngest of the Corleone...
When Harvard talks of families, it usually means the Eliots, not the Corleones. According to one group of students, Italian crime families, however, noted for their habit of bumping off enemies, masterminding drug rings and celebrating the works of Joe Pesci, have now apparently set their sights on a more...
The timing isn't bad either. In summer even serious readers beg to have their disbelief suspended, and The Last Don obliges. It is a headlong entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayals, assassinations, Richter-scale romance and, of course, family values. As in its famous predecessor, unquestioned loyalty, unexamined cash...
The first Godfather films sketched a history of the Mafia as a cracked- mirror reflection of American industry. One hoped G3 might pit the Corleones against the bad boys of the drug trade: the old Italians vs. blacks and Hispanics, rustic chivalry vs. cutthroat capitalism. Instead, Coppola, who wrote the...