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...York's warring crime gangs and sit on the newly formed Mafia Commission (Bonanno died in 2002 at 97). Bonanno's son Bill, 72, admits he ran the family for a brief, chaotic period in the '60s (true) and claims that he and his father were Mario Puzo's inspiration for Michael and Vito Corleone (debatable). He subscribes to Puzo's vision of the Mafia as a grand old society that the New World corrupted. (For full effect as you read this, play some Nino Rota music on your inner iPod.) "They came from a culture and a tradition that...
Whether for love of art or of money, book publisher Random House has decided to revive the Godfather saga. The problem is, the novel's author, Mario Puzo, died in 1999. To get around that, Random House senior editor Jonathan Karp, who worked with Puzo at the end of his life, sent an e-mail to literary agents to seek an author who is at roughly the same career point that Puzo was when he wrote the novel in 1969. There may not be too many writers eager to confess to that. Puzo said he wrote the story...
...whose political instincts and outsize lust were the twin pillars of his power. But personality goes only so far in maintaining authority. Vargas Llosa's scenes of official murder and sanctioned torture are fulsome enough to have been written by the other Mario, the late best-selling author Mario Puzo. Like the father of The Godfather, the Peru-born Vargas Llosa has a talent for the graphic. There are no horses' heads or garrotings, but Trujillo's thugs have their ways: "Between sessions in the electric chair, they dragged him, naked, to a damp cell...To keep him from sleeping...
...audio commentary (Part II spans two volumes) and the supplementary disc positively brims with additional features. No less than 34 deleted scenes—some of which were inserted into television versions of the films—have found their way off the cutting room floor. Author Mario Puzo comments in his narrative and Coppola’s interviews reveal how frighteningly close The Godfather came to never being made. Add cast biographies, a Corleone family tree, Academy Award acceptance speeches, and a rare audio recording of Rota’s musical musings, and the result is an indispensable...
...PUZO PLUMMETS: Mario Puzo died in 1999, but his last novel is being published now. "The Family," which will be published by ReganBooks on October 2, was finished by Carol Gino, Puzo?s longtime companion. Kirkus winces. "The old, black magic just isn?t here. ?The Family? is Godfather Lite. Eminently skippable." But Judith Regan, with a first printing of 250,000, is betting that most people don?t read Kirkus...