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...original, which Coppola would embellish considerably. Now he dreams of some day cutting both features together into a single huge family epic. He also wanted to have Marlon Brando in just one scene of Part II. Brando refused, not because of the film, but because he was furious at Paramount Executive Frank Yablans, who was furious at him for rejecting the Oscar...
When filming actually began, the company moved from Lake Tahoe to Santo Domingo, which was to serve as prerevolutionary Cuba. They were rained out for days on end, although Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of the board of Gulf & Western, Paramount's parent company, comforted Coppola when he complained about the weather. Gulf & Western has holdings in Santo...
...with his editors and his friends at a restaurant called, with looming irony, The Butcher Shop. "Would you believe this?" Coppola laughed at one point. "It's just like college, doing a play: Johnny Cazale acts in it, Elly does the sets. And Bob," he added, turning to Paramount Executive Robert Evans, "Bob is the rich kid whose father will print up the programs...
...Everyone knew there would be a standoff if we met under formal conditions," says Strasberg, so the meeting was arranged socially. Coppola and Strasberg talked about Toscanini; Coppola's father had played flute with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Soon afterward, Paramount placed the official call. Strasberg told the studio to make him an offer, which he promptly refused. "Ten thousand dollars-that was silly," he sniffs...
...movie world, tempers and memories are short, contracts and knives long. So it was when the president of Paramount Pictures, Frank Yablans, 39, the promoter of such blockbusters as Love Story ($84 million net), The Godfather ($145 million) and Frank Yablans ($250,000 a year), finally got an offer he could not refuse. The remaining 6½ years of his ten-year contract were bought up by Paramount. Yablans rejected the idea that he had created a personality less lovable than Genghis Khan. "I am not a cocky bastard," he said. "I have my style, and in this business...