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...freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist Richard Condon's Prizzi family is not boroughs but planets distant from Mario Puzo's Corleones. These soldiers have no dignity and not a shred of redeeming decency. Don Corrado, with his "small, sharp eyes, as merry as ice cubes," is driven like all his men by pure avarice and a brutish lust for power. Prizzi and his top aides-loosely modeled...
...retains the foreign-reprint rights-traditionally a low-register gift to the author-on 75% of its contracts. Not every writer is applying for food stamps, of course. John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire brought $2.25 million; Albert Goldman's Elvis nailed down $1 million, and Mario Puzo sold a "prequel"-an antecedent-to The Godfather story for about $2 million...
...section of the now defunct New York Herald Tribune before joining TIME as a book reviewer in 1967. His cover story this week on Irving, which was edited by Stefan Kanfer and researched by Zona Sparks, is Sheppard's third. (The others: Vladimir Nabokov in 1969 and Mario Puzo...
Screenplay by Mario Puzo...
...Martin Cruz Smith once watched a colleague waltzing down the hall waving a check for six figures and wearing "a grin that met in the back of his throat." Recalls the author: " 'One day,' I thought, 'I'll be doing the same dance as Mario Puzo...