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...Mario Puzo, author of the original best-selling hunk of heave and cheeseburger, states that he only wrote the book for money, and that he took the stories entirely from the memories of friends and family. His intentions and sources show. His Sicilian Don Tommasino is a type from Italian folklore, the local patrician who rules his regime with warm tongue and hard hand, and guards the locals from threatening outsiders...
...sooner had Paramount announced plans to film Mario Puzo's novel about the powerful leader of a Mafia family than the protests began. The Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group headed by Joseph Colombo, the reputed don of one of New York City's five Mafia families, held a rally in Madison Square Garden, raising a $600,000 war chest to stop the production as a slur on Italian-Americans. Close to 100 letters of protest came in from Senators, Congressmen and New York State legislators. The Manhattan offices of Paramount's parent company, Gulf & Western...
Topic No. 1 is the women he escorts on both coasts. His favorite is Nancy Maginnes, a tall, blonde aide to Governor Rockefeller. But there are a host of others, mostly actresses like Jill St. John, Mario Thomas and Samantha Eggar, and little-known starlets whose famous date has made them a lot better known. When he goes to San Clemente, Kissinger often takes time off to drive to Hollywood-a place he never visited before he joined the White House-and enjoy parties at the home of Los Angeles Times Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber and her TV producer husband...
...very unfortunate--that's all I want to say. It's very unfortunate indeed. And it's not going to help Harvard Square in the least," noted Mario L. Bonelio, the manager of As You Like It, as he artfully diced cheddar cheese for an omelet...
...crowd chanting "Mobutu, cha, cha, cha!" promptly tore down a statue of King Leopold II of the Belgians. Then they toppled a bronze statue of Explorer Stanley, which stood on a hill once named for him but now called Mount Ngaliema. On hand for the festivities was Foreign Minister Mario Cardoso, who these days is known as Mario-Philippe Losende. Like other Zaïrians who had foreign fathers, he was obliged by law to take the name of his African mother...