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...Clark Kent and Lois Lane will be in bed together unless the director decrees otherwise," promises Godfather Author Mario Puzo, who last week began his newest project, a movie script of Superman. Puzo, whose scripts for Godfather I and Earthquake are expected to gross $225 million for their Hollywood studios, says Superman will bring him a heroic paycheck well into six figures. And how will the leotarded champion of truth, justice and the American way find his own way into the boudoir? "It is a crucial question, but I have figured it out," says Puzo mysteriously...
Directed by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA Screenplay by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA and MARIO PUZO...
Acting also figures significantly in the success of The Godfather--by far the year's most interesting and accomplished American film. You might wish that the filmmakers had taken a more objective viewpoint than Mario Puzo, and shown what really happens to the middlemen and junked-up patrons of the Mob's cathouses and clipjoints. But the detailing of inner Mafla workings is vivid and accurate, as is--more importantly-- the Corleone family chronicle. This comes less from plot incident than from the perfect characterizations of Brando's Godfather, and At Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall as his natural...
Bluhdorn is fortunate, because five years ago his Paramount executives bankrolled an obscure author, Mario Puzo, while he wrote The Godfather. Paramount got the rights to the screen version for a mere $80,000 plus 21% of the net profit for Puzo. Thanks to fine scripting, directing and acting, the picture stunned both critics and commoners (TIME, March 13). Only eight weeks after release, it has grossed nearly $50 million.* By the end of G. & W.'s fiscal year in July, The Godfather is expected to show a pretax profit of $10 million. According to industry experts, the movie...
...about writing, readers and himself, quite apart from 38 pages devoted to creating The Godfather (in words and pictures) and growing rich. "The only thing was," he confesses, "I felt very unnatural being out of debt." The Godfather was written entirely from research. It was only afterward, Puzo reports with appropriate delicacy, that "I was introduced to a few gentlemen related to the material. They refused to believe that I had never had the confidence of a don. But all of them loved the book...